Psalm 137 137 Psalms Book 5 Arabic Literal Text 2 GLT عَلَى ٱلصَّفْصَافِ فِي وَسَطِهَا عَلَّقْنَا أَعْوَادَنَا. BSB BSB: There on the willows we hung our harps,
3 GLT لِأَنَّهُ هُنَاكَ سَأَلَنَا ٱلَّذِينَ سَبَوْنَا كَلَامَ تَرْنِيمَةٍ، وَمُعَذِّبُونَا سَأَلُونَا فَرَحًا قَائِلِينَ: «رَنِّمُوا لَنَا مِنْ تَرْنِيمَاتِ صِهْيَوْنَ». BSB BSB: for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
4 GLT كَيْفَ نُرَنِّمُ تَرْنِيمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ فِي أَرْضٍ غَرِيبَةٍ؟ BSB BSB: How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
5 GLT إِنْ نَسِيتُكِ يَا أُورُشَلِيمُ، تَنْسَى يَمِينِي! BSB BSB: If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
6 GLT لِيَلْتَصِقْ لِسَانِي بِحَنَكِي إِنْ لَمْ أَذْكُرْكِ، إِنْ لَمْ أُفَضِّلْ أُورُشَلِيمَ عَلَى أَعْظَمِ فَرَحِي! BSB BSB: May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
7 GLT اُذْكُرْ يَا رَبُّ لِبَنِي أَدُومَ يَوْمَ أُورُشَلِيمَ، ٱلْقَائِلِينَ: «هُدُّوا، هُدُّوا حَتَّى إِلَى أَسَاسِهَا». BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
8 GLT يَابِنْتَ بَابِلَ ٱلْمُخْرَبَةَ، طُوبَى لِمَنْ يُجَازِيكِ جَزَاءَكِ ٱلَّذِي جَازَيْتِنَا! BSB BSB: O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
9 GLT طُوبَى لِمَنْ يُمْسِكُ أَطْفَالَكِ وَيَضْرِبُ بِهِمُ ٱلصَّخْرَةَ! BSB BSB: Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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