Psalms 137:3

⁶“As for these things which you see, the days will come in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”

¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?” ¹⁶All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

¹⁴that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

⁶You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Then on that day David first ordained giving of thanks to the LORD by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

¹⁰Then the LORD’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

¹God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

¹Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.