PSALM 137

 

PSALM 137

By the rivers of Babylon
  we sat and wept
  remembering Zion.

Super flúmina Babylónis, illic sédimus et flévimus,*
  cum recordarémur Sion.


VUC  Psalm 136:1 Psalmus David, Jeremiae.

Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, 
 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: 

cum recordaremur Sion.
when we remembered Sion:

In salicibus in medio ejus 
On the willows in the midst thereof 

suspendimus organa nostra:
we hung up our instruments.

quia illic interrogaverunt nos,
 
qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum;
 For there they that led us into captivity
required of us the words of songs. 

et qui abduxerunt nos:
And they that carried us away, said: 
 
Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, 
 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, 

oblivioni detur dextera mea.
 let my right hand be forgotten.

6 Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis,
 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, 
: 
si non meminero tui; 
if I do not remember thee

si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio laetitiae meae.
 If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

7 Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: 

: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea
Who say: Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof..


DRA  Psalm 136:
 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: 
when we remembered Sion:
  On the willows in the midst thereof 
we hung up our instruments.
  For there they that led us into captivity
 required of us the words of songs. 
And they that carried us away, said: 
Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
  How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
  Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: 
If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
  Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: 
Who say: Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof..






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