 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 432 pages
...these. It is a native of the Levant; and the associations which are awakened in conjunction with it, by that very beautiful psalm, " By the waters of Babylon...sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion ! As for our harps, we hanged them upon the willow trees," &c. The tender and melancholy recollections... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1835 - 636 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 thatare therein. 3 For they that led us away captive,... | |
 | 1835 - 604 pages
...27 O give thanks unto the LORD of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM 137. Super Jlumlnn, 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 tha.t led us away... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - Abbeys - 1835 - 464 pages
...stones beneath, some visitor probably, has deeply but rudely scratched with a knife, the words : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion." The yellow lichen was beginning to deface some of the letters of this inscription, and many... | |
 | 1836 - 488 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 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 Judaea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | John Pring - 1837 - 508 pages
...shed like water on every side of Jerusalem ; and there was no man to bury them" (Ps. Ixxix. 1, &c.). " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion .... If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning : if I do not remember thee,... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1837 - 624 pages
...powerful testimonial to the moral attraction of the Jewish system!) ; and the common feeling was, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion!" Neither did a return to their own land weaken this affection. It grew in strength (in how few soever... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bible - 1837 - 882 pages
...this figure. The psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : ' ughs, and under his branches did all the. beasts of the field bring forth Zion.' But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | Thoughts - 1837 - 86 pages
...celebrated in antiquity, mentioned by Herodotus and other early historians. («2) « j}y ^6 wa ters 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. How shall we sing the Lord's... | |
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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? 
