>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/137?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07789::c07789) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/psalms/137.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Psalms/137.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/psa/137/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>This chapter is a lament by the Israelites during their captivity in Babylon, expressing their longing for Jerusalem and desire for justice against their enemies. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>The people were very sad because they missed their home, Jerusalem, and they didn't want to sing happy songs while they were away. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Psalm 137 expresses the deep sorrow of the Israelites during their captivity in Babylon, as they remember and long for Jerusalem. It portrays their refusal to sing joyful songs of Zion in a foreign land and includes a plea for God to remember the destruction caused by their enemies, with a desire for justice. The psalm ends with a hope for retribution against Babylon for their cruelty. > >#Gospel/Captivity #Gospel/Faithfulness #Gospel/Justice ###### 1 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ###### 2 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ###### 3 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ###### 4 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? ###### 5 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ###### 6 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. ###### 7 7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. ###### 8 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. ###### 9 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.