 | 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...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, saying,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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 m mirth, saying,... | |
 | 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 of us mirth, sayiug,... | |
 | 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...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, saying,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
