Common English Bible

Psalms 137:1-4 Common English Bible (CEB)

1. Alongside Babylon’s streams,there we sat down,crying because we remembered Zion.

2. We hung our lyres upin the trees there

3. because that’s where our captors asked us to sing;our tormentors requested songs of joy:"Sing us a song about Zion!" they said.

4. But how could we possibly singthe Lord’s song on foreign soil?