"On the Rivers of Babel" ... We Wept

Oh, my Lord, what of "The City on the Hill?" What of the dreams we never let go of after the Civil Rights movement?  How can it be that playground bullies are sought out ... guttersnipes and confabulators/prevaricators are followed? "How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?" Indeed, how? Waking up to the Primary Election results here in the USA ... Oh, my! My generation of Fourth Quarter types? Many of us mourn, this morning!                               Psalm 137 1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion.		אעַל נַהֲרוֹת | בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת צִיּוֹן:
2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.		בעַל עֲרָבִים בְּתוֹכָהּ תָּלִינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵינוּ:
3For there our captors asked us for words of song and our tormentors [asked of us] mirth, "Sing for us of the song of Zion."		גכִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שׁוֹבֵינוּ דִּבְרֵי שִׁיר וְתוֹלָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה שִׁירוּ לָנוּ מִשִּׁיר צִיּוֹן:
4"How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?"		דאֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת שִׁיר יְהֹוָה עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָר:
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].		האִם אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי:
6May my tongue cling to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem at the beginning of my joy.		ותִּדְבַּק לְשׁוֹנִי | לְחִכִּי אִם לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי אִם לֹא אַעֲלֶה אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם עַל רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִי:
7Remember, O Lord, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, those who say, "Raze it, raze it, down to its foundation!"		זזְכֹר יְהֹוָה | לִבְנֵי אֱדוֹם אֵת יוֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָם הָאֹמְרִים עָרוּ | עָרוּ עַד הַיְסוֹד בָּהּ:
8O Daughter of Babylon, who is destined to be plundered, praiseworthy is he who repays you your recompense that you have done to us.		חבַּת בָּבֶל הַשְּׁדוּדָה אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם לָךְ אֶת גְּמוּלֵךְ שֶׁגָּמַלְתְּ לָנוּ:
9Praiseworthy is he who will take and dash your infants against the rock.		טאַשְׁרֵי | שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת עֹלָלַיִךְ אֶל הַסָּלַע: