...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...

...many a one.' Compare these sacred travesties with the simple and inimitable beauty of the original : " 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...

...instructive to listen to a country's woes as told by her children, and to mourn with them that mourn. " 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 captive...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...