For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? The History of Antiquity - Page 70by Max Duncker - 1882Full view - About this book
| Charles Phillips - Biography - 1822 - 434 pages
...surely I am not a wanderer; neither am I in a knd of strangers." LINES WRITTEN IN A LEAF OF THE BOOK. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down, and wept when we remembered thee, O Sion!" " Carolan, thy happy love No jealous doubts, no pang can prove; Thy generous Lord is kind as... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...cherubs and on cherubim," &c. .. Now let us take a poetical passage of the most pathetic kind : — " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, oh ! Sioit." With regard to lite fust of these passages, to show how just is the general remark of... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...On cherubs and on cherubim," &c. Now let us take a poetical passage of the most pathetic kind: — " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and "wept, when we remembered thee, oh! Sion." With regard to the first of these passages, to shew how just is the general remark of HORACE,... | |
| Prayer (Book of common) (U.S. protest. episc. ch.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 137. Super Aumina. ТЭТ 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. 3 For they that led us... | |
| William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 pages
...this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion." But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
| William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 pages
...participare vices. a " In furias meas." Sic enim Euripides, тм ерши III. PSALM CXXXVII. 1. JoY 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 a that are therein. 3. For they that led... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...ground. The Jews lamented their dispersion, by the rivers of Babylon, in the same mournful posture : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion."m But what is more remarkable, we find Judea under the figure of a sorrowful woman sitting on... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...refused to be comforted, while their conquerors tauntingly commanded them to sing the songs of Sion.3 " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, When we remembered thee, O Sion. We hanged our harpe upon the willows, In the midst thereof. For there, They that carried us away... | |
| Church of England - 1825 - 432 pages
...endureth for ever. Day №. Lord of lords : for his mercy endureth for ever. PsALMlST. Super flumina. 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. 3 For they that led... | |
| George Wilkins - English fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...inheritance into a strange country, their spirits, their strength, and their hearts forsook them.—' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, Oh Zion! As for our harps we hanged them upon the trees that are therein; for they that led us away... | |
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