...this figure. The psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, 0 Si,iin.' Iii..t what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a women in sorrow sitting on...

...this figure. The psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered tht C Sinn.' B'u what is more remarkable, we find Judea represent as a women in sorrow sitting on the...

...Sion. hiiH.1 2 As for our harpg, we hanged them dip : upon the trees that are therein. • -t oil • 3 For they that led us away captive required of us then a sang, and melody, in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord's...

...this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion." But what is more remarkable, we find Judeea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...

...137. Supn- JluminaV the waters of Bahylnn we sat down and wepl, ivhen we rememhered the«. O Sinn. Z As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that ;,re Hierein. ч Fur they lhal led us away captive, required of us then » song, 'and uieiudy in (Mir...

...even by Sternhold or Hopkins, or the pathetic strains of Dean Whittingham,* who thus paraphrased " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept:" " When we did sit in Babylon, The rivers round about, ,' Then in remembrance of Si-on, The tears for grief burst...

...mournful state of Israel, when captive in Babylon ; the enemies of Jerusalem shall be destroyed. 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away...

...must often be reminded of the plaintive language of the captive Jews in Assyria : — " By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O Zion." Such is the field of moral desolation, which, at the expiration of more than eighteen hundred...

...are awakened in conjunction with it, by that very beautiful psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we eat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion ! As for our harps, we hanged them upon the willow trees," &c. The tender and melancholy recollections of the captive children of Israel,...

...27 O give thanks unto the LORD of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM 137. Super Jlumlnn, BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they tha.t led us away...