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| 136 | 1 | Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: | super flumina Babylonis ibi sedimus et flevimus cum recordaremur Sion |
| 136 | 2 | On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. | super salices in medio eius suspendimus citharas nostras |
| 136 | 3 | 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. | quoniam ibi interrogaverunt nos qui captivos duxerunt nos verba carminis et qui adfligebant nos laeti canite nobis de canticis Sion |
| 136 | 4 | How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? | quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena |
| 136 | 5 | If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. | si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem in oblivione sit dextera mea |
| 136 | 6 | Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy. | adhereat lingua mea gutturi meo si non recordatus fuero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem in principio laetitiae meae |
| 136 | 7 | Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. | memento Domine filiorum Edom in diem Hierusalem dicentium evacuate evacuate usque ad fundamentum eius |
| 136 | 8 | O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. | filia Babylon vastata beatus qui retribuet tibi vicissitudinem tuam quam retribuisti nobis |
| 136 | 9 | Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. | beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram |