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¹ By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.^(a)
2 There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,^(b)
3 for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
"Sing us one of the songs of Zion."^(c)

⁴ How can we sing the Lord's song
on foreign soil?^(d)
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.^(e)
6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!^(f)

⁷ Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day^[a] at Jerusalem:
"Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!"^(g)
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.^(h)
9 Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.⁽ⁱ⁾