Opening the chapter…
By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept—when we remembered Zion:
Upon the willows—in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:
For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers—gladness,—Sing us of the songs of Zion!
How shall we sing the song of God, on a foreign soil?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.
Remember, O God, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem,—how they continued to say—Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.
O ruined daughter of Babylon,—how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!
How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.
Source
Rotherham Emphasised Bible. Public domain. Source: CrossWire SWORD module Rotherham (converted to USFM; no wording changed). Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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