--- title: Psalms 137 — the Tanakh in Hebrew, Aramaic and English, with trees description: Psalms chapter 137 of the Tanakh (Ketuvim — the Writings) in Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917), every verse with its syntax tree and pragmatics. It begins: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/137/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / chapter 137 # Psalms 137 9 verses, each with its tree and pragmatics: Hebrew, Aramaic (the Targum) and English (JPS 1917), the English sentence by sentence. - [137:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.1/) — עַל נַהֲרוֹת ׀ בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃ — By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. - [137:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.2/) — עַֽל־עֲרָבִים בְּתוֹכָהּ תָּלִינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ׃ — Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps. - [137:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.3/) — כִּי שָׁם שְֽׁאֵלוּנוּ שׁוֹבֵינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁיר וְתוֹלָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה שִׁירוּ לָנוּ מִשִּׁיר צִיּֽוֹן׃ — For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' - [137:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.4/) — אֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָה עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָֽר׃ — How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? - [137:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.5/) — אִֽם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְֽרוּשָׁלִָם תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִֽי׃ — If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. - [137:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.6/) — תִּדְבַּק־לְשׁוֹנִי ׀ לְחִכִּי אִם־לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי אִם־לֹא אַעֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַם עַל רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִֽי׃ — Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy. - [137:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.7/) — זְכֹר יְהוָה ׀ לִבְנֵי אֱדוֹם אֵת יוֹם יְֽרוּשָׁלִָם הָאֹמְרִים עָרוּ ׀ עָרוּ עַד הַיְסוֹד בָּֽהּ׃ — Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.' - [137:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.8/) — בַּת־בָּבֶל הַשְּׁדוּדָה אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם־לָךְ אֶת־גְּמוּלֵךְ שֶׁגָּמַלְתְּ לָֽנוּ׃ — O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us. - [137:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.137.9/) — אַשְׁרֵי ׀ שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶֽת־עֹלָלַיִךְ אֶל־הַסָּֽלַע׃ — Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. - ← previous: [Psalms 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/136/) - next →: [Psalms 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/138/) - ↑ back to [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/)