 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth,...  English Trees & Tree Planting - Page 371by William H. Ablett - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - 378 pages
...which the daughters of Israel hung their harps and wept. " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion: we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." Psalm cxxxvii. ver. 1,2. This is the woful lamentation of one of the Jewish captives of Babylon, either... | |
 | James Rennell - 1830 - 586 pages
...captive Jews, by the author of the cxxxviith psalm : " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. " We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. " For there they that carried us away captive, required of us a song: and they that wasted us, required... | |
 | James Rennell - 1830 - 588 pages
...captive Jews, by the author of the cxxxviith psalm : " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. " We hanged our harps upon the nnllvws in the midst thereof. " For there they that carried us away captive, required of us a song... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1832 - 400 pages
...Babylon, which did not happen till that distance of time. " By the rivers of Babylon we sat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows, in the midst thereof ; Jbr there they that carried us away captive, required of us a song, saying, sing us one of the songs... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1833 - 322 pages
...Listen, children of the captivity, to a song of Zion ! " ' By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. " ' We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. " ' For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...succeeded to this extent, and conceiving that her * " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sate down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted us required... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...snow', in the glance of the Lord'. SECTION XI. Psalm 137. BY the rivers of Babylon', there we sat down': yea', we wept when we remembered Zion'. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof: for there', they that carried us away captive', demanded of us a song'; and they that wasted us', required... | |
 | 1834 - 506 pages
...in the hundred and thirtyseventh Psalm, verses 1, 2. " By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." LINES TO A BOWER. ONCK more I visit thee, my bower ; Nor dream of grandeur, fame, nor power, Calm haunt... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...reminded us of the pathetic lament of the Hebrew exiles :-—• " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." ' It was, indeed, an affecting sight, to look round on our little band of Scottish emigrants, thus... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 pages
...reminded us of the pathetic lament of the Hebrew exiles: — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." ' It was, indeed, an affecting sight, to look round on our little band of Scottish emigrants, thus... | |
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