 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,...  Narrative of a Residence in South Africa - Sida 34efter Thomas Pringle, Josiah Conder - 1835 - 356 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Richard Carlile - 1820 - 660 sidor
...studiously aggravated the language. " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when Tire remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive lequired of us a song; and they that wasted us required... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 sidor
...deluded captive as set forth iM|Psaltn cxxxvii. 1 — 4. " By the rivers of Babylon there we set down ; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried ua away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us, required... | |
 | 1822 - 500 sidor
...had we been children of Jerusalem and of the 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." Far from their beloved Jerusalem, in a strange land, they sat down. They remembered former days. They... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 352 sidor
...pathetically expressed in the following beautiful lines : " 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. The Jews were commanded by the Levitical laws, to keep the festival of the new moon... | |
 | 1875 - 350 sidor
...read aloud the following verses of the i37th 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. ... If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 sidor
...Babylon, which did not happen till that distance of time. "By the rivers of Babylon we tat down ; yea, me wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows, in the midst thereof ; for there they tliat carried MS away captive, required of us a song, saying, sing us one of the tongs... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 sidor
...the children of Israel lamented their 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.''" The wicker-baskets made by our forefathers are the subject of an epigram by Martial :•*'' From Britain's... | |
 | 1825 - 270 sidor
...described in the hundred and thirty-seventh Psalm : " By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." Suppose them to have been addressed, by some one compassionating their distress, in the language before... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 sidor
...children of Israel seem to have lamented their 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." Psalms. The ancient Britons used boats made of wicker covered with skins, for passing rivers and arms... | |
 | Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 360 sidor
...strange land, as said one of the inspired penmen — " 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 they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they 78 that wasted us required of... | |
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