137:4 How can we sing a song to the Lord
in a foreign land?
137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand be crippled! 1
137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
and do not give Jerusalem priority
over whatever gives me the most joy. 2
137:7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell. 3
They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, 4
right to its very foundation!”
137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! 5
How blessed will be the one who repays you
for what you dished out to us! 6
137:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock! 7