詩篇

第 137 章

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.