Psalms 138

Douai-Rheims	King James Bible
¹ Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:	¹ I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
² On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.	² I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
³ For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.	³ In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
⁴ How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?	⁴ All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.	⁵ Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
⁶ Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.	⁶ Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
⁷ Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.	⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.	⁸ The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
⁹ Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.