 | 1829 - 442 pages
...О give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy enduretli for ever. Psalm 137. Sufitr fumino. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harpa, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Bible - 1829 - 490 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, 0 Si,iin.' Iii..t what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a women in sorrow sitting on... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Bible - 1829 - 490 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 tht C Sinn.' B'u what is more remarkable, we find Judea represent as a women in sorrow sitting on the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 278 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 Judeea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Anglican Communion - 1831 - 372 pages
...even by Sternhold or Hopkins, or the pathetic strains of Dean Whittingham,* who thus paraphrased " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept:" " When we did sit in Babylon, The rivers round about, ,' Then in remembrance of Si-on, The tears for grief burst... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...mournful state of Israel, when captive in Babylon ; the enemies of Jerusalem shall be destroyed. 1 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... | |
 | 1832 - 678 pages
...must often be reminded of the plaintive language of the captive Jews in Assyria : — " By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O Zion." Such is the field of moral desolation, which, at the expiration of more than eighteen hundred... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 436 pages
...proper place, the most beautiful of 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 we eat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion ! As for our harps, we hanged them upon the willow... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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? 
