 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,...  Scripture Natural History - Page 101by Alexander Fletcher - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1833 - 334 pages
...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, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. " < How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...wept when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 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. 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? 5... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1833 - 324 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...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... | |
 | 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 of... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 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... | |
 | Anthologies - 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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1834 - 638 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Martin - Private presses - 1834 - 596 pages
...the Psalmist, which gives a sanctity to its name:— " ' 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.'—Ps. cxxxvii." Only fifty copies were printed. The frontispiece represents Johnson's Willow,... | |
 | Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Rationalism - 1834 - 414 pages
...that distance of time. " By the rivers of Babylon we fat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zum. 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 us one of the songs of... | |
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