4TH SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR B)

PSALM 136

 

 

Response:
O let my tongue cleave to my mouth
if I remember you not!

Verse 1:
By the rivers of Babylon
there we sat and wept,
remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there
we hung up our harps.

Verse 2:
For it was there that they asked us,
our captors, for songs,
our oppressors, for joy.
‘Sing to us,’ they said,
‘one of Zion’s songs.’

Verse 3:
O how could we sing
the song of the Lord
on alien soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!

Verse 4:
O let my tongue
cleave to my mouth
if I remember you not,
if I prize not Jerusalem
above all my joys!