 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 378 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,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 428 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,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1812 - 640 pages
...History does not exhibit a more melancholy contrast than in the former and present state of Spain. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion." It is impossible for a scholar and gentleman, even imperfectly acquainted with the autient Annals... | |
 | Andrew Lumisden - Italy - 1812 - 616 pages
...f Edifices antiques de Rome, p. 78. J Lamentations, cb. 1 1. v. 10. § On Medals, dial.fi. fig 13. waters of Babylon we sat down and wept ; when we remembered thee, O Sion."* — And he adds, " that we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow, sitting on the ground, in a... | |
 | rev. John Brougham - 1813 - 310 pages
...should soon " have put down their enemies, and " tamed my hand against their adver" saries." — " By the waters of Babylon " we sat down and wept, when we re*6 membered thee, O Sion !" When it was too late to remedy the evils we had brought upon thee when... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...Cabal ae mysteria," &c. The following year he published a paraphrase upon that beautiful ode the 137th Psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion," &c. He began early to be inflamed with an ardent desire of travelling for his improvement in literature,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...Cabalae mysteria," &c. The following year he published a paraphrase upon that beautiful ode the 137th Psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Siop," &c. He began early to be inflamed with an ardent desire of travelling for his improvement in... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - Music - 1814 - 526 pages
...that is told," and hence doubly susceptible of the full extent of their present hopeless condition. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and " wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. As " for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees " that are therein. For they that led us away... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords : for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM 137- Super jlumina. 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 us away... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Bible - 1815 - 436 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,... | |
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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? 
