...the children of Israel lamented their captivity :— " Ну the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion : we hanged our harps upon tlie willows in the midst thereof.'* The wicker-baskets made by our forefathers are the subject of...

...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; for there they that carried us away captive, required of us a song, saying, sing ua one of the songs of...

...more tender and moving, than that feeling lamentation, " 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." The Jewish Rabbins enumerate five things, in which the second, was inferior to the first Temple. The...

...children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore." Again, the 137th Psalm, verse 3 — " For there they that carried us away captive required of us a...song, and they that wasted us, required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion." The foregoing examples will assist your memory, and, I hope,...

...children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore." Again, the 137th Psalm, verse 3—" For there they that carried us away captive required of us a...song, and they that wasted us, required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion." The foregoing examples will assist your memory, and, I hope,...

...Him who had cast her lot in u more pleasant heritage. " By the rivers of Babvlon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." No sound was to be heard but that of the church-going bell, calling the people of the village and the...

...sons and daughters of Jerusalem. Verses 1, and 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." I have already remarked that poetry is the language of emotion ; and the emotions here described are...

...RIVER. 195 ters 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...

...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...

...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...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...