Глава 137

1. By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion.
2. We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.
3. For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and [for] our waylynges myrth, [saying] sing vs one of the songes of Sion.
4. [He aunswered] howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne?
5. If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget [her cunning.]
6. Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth.
7. Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem: they sayde, downe with it, downe with it, euen to the grounde.
8. O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs.
9. Blessed shall he be: that taketh & throweth thy litle children against the stone.