Super flumina. The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon. A psalm of David, for Jeremias. For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of Babylon.
136:1
Psalmus David, Jeremiae. Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
136:2
In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra;
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
136:3
quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos : Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
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.
136:4
Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
136:5
Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
136:6
Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio laetitiae meae.
Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
136:7
Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem, qui dicunt : Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
136:8
Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.
O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
136:9
Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.
Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.