1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying , Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning .
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it , rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be , that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be , that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
1 David
confitebor tibi in toto corde meo
in conspectu deorum cantabo tibi
2 adorabo in templo sancto tuo et confitebor nomini tuo
super misericordia tua et super veritate tua
quia magnificasti super omne nomen tuum
eloquium tuum
3 in die invocabo et exaudies me dilatabis animae meae fortitudinem
4 confiteantur tibi Domine omnes reges terrae
quoniam audierunt eloquia oris tui
5 et cantent in viis Domini quoniam magna gloria Domini
6 quoniam excelsus Dominus et humilem respicit
et excelsa de longe cognoscit
7 si ambulavero in medio tribulationis vivificabis me
super furorem inimicorum meorum mittes manum tuam
et salvabit me dextera tua
8 Dominus operabitur pro me
Domine misericordia tua in aeternum
opera manuum tuarum ne dimittas