May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!(A)

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day[a] at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!” (B)
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 137:7 The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC

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