Read Good News Bible Psalms 137 Bible Online

Psalms 137 - Good News Bible bible

Psalms 137

¹By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion.

²On the willows near by we hung up our harps.

³Those who captured us told us to sing; they told us to entertain them: "Sing us a song about Zion."

⁴How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land?

⁵May I never be able to play the harp again if I forget you, Jerusalem!

⁶May I never be able to sing again if I do not remember you, if I do not think of you as my greatest joy!

⁷Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"

⁸Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy are those who pay you back for what you have done to us---

⁹who take your babies and smash them against a rock.