 | William Mullinger Higgins - Music - 1838 - 276 pages
...gratification, was in all probability entirely neglected. " 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... | |
 | Gething - 1838 - 426 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 congregated... | |
 | Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - Bible - 1838 - 304 pages
...captivity the Church had ever suffered (Ps. cxxxvii.) " 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." But then " the harp of prophecy was most inspired with hope, then the grandest revelations were made... | |
 | J. Slade - Phrenology - 1838 - 370 pages
...daughters of Israel under the Babylonish 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." How truly beautiful and pathetic is this and the rest of the lamentation of these Israelitish... | |
 | J. Slade - Phrenology - 1838 - 400 pages
...daughters of Israel under the Babylonish 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." How truly beautiful and pathetic is this and the rest of the lamentation of these Israelitish... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...the children of Israel lamented their captivity : — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, t: when the wings of the night had shadowed the light of the heavenly bodies, there was no darkness The wicker-baskets made by our forefathers are the subject of an epigram by Martial : — " From Britain's... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - Babylon - 1839 - 494 pages
...more recent ones running parallel and close to them. * " 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," &c. Pa. 137. It appears extraordinary that instead of digging a new canal they do not repair that which... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - Bible - 1839 - 590 pages
...psalm, a composition of exquisite tenderness and beauty. 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 long; And they that wasted us required... | |
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 674 pages
...expressions of patriotism and piety from the captive Jews : — "By the rirers 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...glance of the Lord'. SECTION XI. Psalm 137. BY the rivers of Babylon', there we sat down': yea', vr» 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... | |
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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,... 
