 | Morris Jacob Raphall - Rabbinical literature - 1835 - 440 pages
...countenance a melancholy cast, and reflective expression. " 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... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 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... | |
 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 208 pages
...privations of captivity. " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when weremembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."* They had no longer a tabernacle ; their harps, with which, in their own happy Palestine, the land of... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1836 - 508 pages
...strange land ?" — Thus oppressed Israel wept, and said, " 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." They wept because they still loved Zion. Deep and deadly must be the depravity of that apostate who... | |
 | Fulgence Fresnel - Arabian Peninsula - 1836 - 138 pages
...Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra alienâ? By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat clown, 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... | |
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 814 pages
...expressions of patriotism and piety from 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; for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted us required... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...Jews in captivity. The prophet cuneth Edam and Babel. 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...the children of Israel lamented their captivity : — " By the rivers of Babylor, 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... | |
 | Book - 1837 - 232 pages
...daughters of Israel, during the Babylonian 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 of them." This passage has been elegantly THE WILLOW. paraphrased in the following lines, by the Rev.... | |
 | Nathan Covington Brooks - Bible - 1837 - 220 pages
...and thy God. THE CAPTIVITY. By the rivers of Babylon we sat down ; yea we wept when we remem bered 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... | |
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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,... 
