| | 1 | 我們曾在巴比倫的河邊坐下、一追想錫安就哭了。
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. | |
| | 2 | 我們把琴掛在那裡的柳樹上。
There on the poplars we hung our harps, | |
| | 3 | 因為在那裡擄掠我們的、要我們唱歌、搶奪我們的、要我們作樂、說、給我們唱一首錫安歌罷。
for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" | |
| | 4 | 我們怎能在外邦唱耶和華的歌呢。
How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? | |
| | 5 | 耶路撒冷阿、我若忘記你、情願我的右手忘記技巧。
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. | |
| | 6 | 我若不記念你、若不看耶路撒冷過於我所最喜樂的、情願我的舌頭貼於上膛。
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. | |
| | 7 | 耶路撒冷遭難的日子、以東人說拆毀、拆毀、直拆到根基．耶和華阿、求你記念這仇。
Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!" | |
| | 8 | 將要被滅的巴比倫城阿、〔城原文作女子〕報復你、像你待我們的、那人便為有福。
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-- | |
| | 9 | 拿你的嬰孩摔在磐石上的、那人便為有福。
he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. | |