 | Thomas Harmer - 1787 - 542 sidor
...fays, " By the rivers of * J«- 5*- 3X> 3*- * Pf- T37- i-3" Babylon, " Babylon, there we fat down, yea, we " wept when we remembered Zion. We •" hanged our harps upon the willows in the *' midft thereof." The jitting by the -waters, and ftill more the mention of their havgs, ftrongly... | |
 | 1848 - 726 sidor
...reminded us of the language of the captive Israelites. " 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." We, however, were not disposed to yield to sadness, but rather to give thanks and to rejoice. The remains... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 sidor
...; and three times a year before 1 T) Y the river*, of Babylon, there we &at down, yea, we wept 2 Jj when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof ; we tyent out to the river side to soothe our distress, hoping to divert our grief by our music ;... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 sidor
...cannot forget the pathetic words of the captive Jews. " 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 predictions of the prophets against Babylon have long since received their accomplishment. " Sit... | |
 | 1808 - 874 sidor
...and leave it to the reader himself to make the application. " By theriversofBabylon,therewe sat down, yea, we wept when, we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. Forthere they that carried us away captive, required of us a song ; and they that wasted us, required... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 sidor
...supplications. The Royal psalmist predicts this .long captivity : " 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... | |
 | 1832 - 644 sidor
...WILLOW INTO ENGLAND. " By the rivers of Babylon [the streams of the river Euphrates] there wt sat down, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." — Ps. cxxxvii. 1, 2. Mr. Vernon, Turkey merchant at Aleppo, transplanted the weeping willow from... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 sidor
...represented as hanging their harps upon the willows. " By the waters of Babylon there we sat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion : we hanged our harps upon the orebim in the midst thereof." Whatever special application this word may have had with the Hebrews,... | |
 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 432 sidor
...themselves is pathctically sct forth in the 137th Psalm : " By the rivers of Bab;. Ion, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thercof. For they that carried us away captive, required of us a song ; and they that wasted us, required... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1816 - 452 sidor
...abundance. By the Riven of Babylon we sat down and wept, say the captive and desponding Hebrew race : We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof, Psalm cxxxvii. 2. The plural word rivers, used in this place, was doubtless intended to signify the numerous aqueducts... | |
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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,... 
