| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...cxxxvii. 1, &c. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept, when we remembered Sion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst...us away captive, required of us a song ; and they that wasted us, required of us mirth, saying, Sing uf one of the songs of Sum. 338. That rather Greece... | |
| Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1824 - 420 pages
...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...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 of Zion." As... | |
| Christian life - 1875 - 350 pages
...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 Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, When we remembered thee, O Sion. We hanged our harpe upon the willows, In the midst thereof. For there, They that carried us away captive required of us Л song ; and they that wasted us, required Mirth. — ' Sing us ona of the songs of Sion.' How shall... | |
| 1825 - 270 pages
...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... | |
| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...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... | |
| Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...we 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... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For tbere epth in storehouses. 8 Let all the earth fear that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of /'.ion. 4 How shall we sing... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 360 pages
...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 us... | |
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