The Iewes lamentation in captiuitie.
the 4. key.
The The Prophet describeth how lamentably the people in captiuitie of Babylon, wil bewaile the want of meanes to serue God, and of their natiue soyle 7. with iust desire of their enimies punishment.
1 A Psalme of Dauid for Ieremie. VPON the riuers of Babylon, there we sate and wept: whiles we remembred Sion.
2 On the willowes in the middes therof, we hanged vp our instrumentes.
3 Because there they that led vs captiue, demanded of vs wordes of songes. And they that led vs away: Sing ye an hymne to vs of the songes of Sion.
4 How shal we sing the song of our Lord in a strange land?
5 If I shal forget thee ô Ierusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
6 Let my tongue cleaue to my iawes, if I doe not remember thee: If I shal not set Ierusalem in the beginning of my ioy.
7 Be mindful ô Lord of the childrem of Edom, in the day of Ierusalem: That say: Rase it, rase it, euen vnto the foundation therof.
8 Daughter of Babylon miserable: blessed is he, that shal repay thee thy payment, which thou hast payed vs.
9 Blessed is he, that shal hold, and shal dash thy litle ones against the rocke.