Psalm 137 #catechesis/bible/psalm
[!abstract] The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.
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GR τῷ Δαυιδ ἐπὶ τῶν ποταμῶν Βαβυλῶνος ἐκεῖ ἐκαθίσαμεν καὶ ἐκλαύσαμεν ἐν τῷ μνησθῆναι ἡμᾶς τῆς Σιων
LA Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
EN Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
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GR ἐπὶ ταῖς ἰτέαις ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς ἐκρεμάσαμεν τὰ ὄργανα ἡμῶν
LA In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:
EN On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
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GR ὅτι ἐκεῖ ἐπηρώτησαν ἡμᾶς οἱ αἰχμαλωτεύσαντες ἡμᾶς λόγους ᾠδῶν καὶ οἱ ἀπαγαγόντες ἡμᾶς ὕμνον ᾄσατε ἡμῖν ἐκ τῶν ᾠδῶν Σιων
LA quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
EN For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
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GR πῶς ᾄσωμεν τὴν ᾠδὴν κυρίου ἐπὶ γῆς ἀλλοτρίας
LA Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
EN How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
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GR ἐὰν ἐπιλάθωμαί σου Ιερουσαλημ ἐπιλησθείη ἡ δεξιά μου
LA Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.
EN If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
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GR κολληθείη ἡ γλῶσσά μου τῷ λάρυγγί μου ἐὰν μή σου μνησθῶ ἐὰν μὴ προανατάξωμαι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς εὐφροσύνης μου
LA Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.
EN Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember you: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
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GR μνήσθητι κύριε τῶν υἱῶν Εδωμ τὴν ἡμέραν Ιερουσαλημ τῶν λεγόντων ἐκκενοῦτε ἐκκενοῦτε ἕως ὁ θεμέλιος ἐν αὐτῇ
LA Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.
EN Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
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GR θυγάτηρ Βαβυλῶνος ἡ ταλαίπωρος μακάριος ὃς ἀνταποδώσει σοι τὸ ἀνταπόδομά σου ὃ ἀνταπέδωκας ἡμῖν
LA Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.
EN O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay you your payment which you have paid us.
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GR μακάριος ὃς κρατήσει καὶ ἐδαφιεῖ τὰ νήπιά σου πρὸς τὴν πέτραν
LA Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.
EN Blessed be he that shall take and dash your little ones against the rock.
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[!note]- Dash thy little ones, etc…
In the spiritual sense, we dash the little ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which is Christ. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
