Super Flumina Babylonis

Latin text

1 Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

2 In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra.

English text

1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Sion.

2 As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein.