Psalm 137 - 138

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We Wept When We Remembered Zion

By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat and also wept,

When we remembered Zion.

Upon the willows in the midst of it

We hung our lyres.

For there our captors asked us about the words of a song,

And our tormentors asked joyfully, saying,

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”

How can we sing a song of Yahweh

In a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

May my right hand forget her skill.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

If I do not remember you,

If I do not exalt Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom

The day of Jerusalem,

Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down

To its very foundation.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one,

How blessed will be the one who repays you

With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants

Against the cliff.

I Will Give Thanks to Your Name

Of David.

I will give You thanks with all my heart;

I will sing praises to You before the gods.

I will worship toward Your holy temple

And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;

For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

On the day I called, You answered me;

You made me bold with strength in my soul.

All the kings of the earth, O Yahweh, will give You thanks,

When they hear the words of Your mouth.

And they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,

For great is the glory of Yahweh.

For Yahweh is high,

Yet He sees the lowly,

But the one who exalts himself He knows from afar.

Though I walk in the midst of distress, You will revive me;

You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,

And Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh will accomplish what concerns me;

O Yahweh, Your lovingkindness endures forever;

Do not fail the works of Your hands.

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