Chapter 136

The lamentation of the people of God, in their captivity, in Babylon.

1. 1

   A psalm of David, for Jeremias.

2. 2

   On the willows in the midst thereof, we hung up our instruments. 3 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs.

3. 4

   How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

4. 5

   If I forget thee, O Jerusalem! let my right hand be forgotten.

5. 6

   Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee:

6. 7

   Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:

7. 8

   O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

8. 9

   Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.