...and bewailed in such touching language the bitterness of their captivity and exile from Jerusalem. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down, and wept when we remembered /ion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof: for there they that carried us away...

...et miserans videt. B. . BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, i : When we remembered thee, O Sion. • As for our harps...that are therein. For they that led us away captive j Required of us then a song And melody in our heaviness; i Sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall...

...'• before Ood day and night 1552. • this child, that same 1552. '' offences cometh 1552. • a them up : upon the trees that are therein. For they...required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song : in a strange land ? If I forget...

...recollect how 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 Sion !" And we call to mind, too, the still more remarkable fact, that Judaea herself is represented...

...endures for ever. Give thanks to the God of heaven, * for his mercy endures for ever. Super flumina By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, * when we remembered you, O Zion. As for our harps, we hung them up * on the trees in the midst of that land. For those...

...improved) makes hlaram the comrasi: 'hy the warers of Bahylon we sat down and wept, when we rememhered Sion. As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees, that are therein.' This amoums to more than just the ohservation that Coverdale was a far hetrer prose translator than...

...us your blessing; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I6521 PSALM 137 Tone 8; PH 245, 246; PS 140 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, * when we remembered you, O Zion. 2 As for our harps, we hung them up * on the trees in the midst of that land. 3 For those...

...indicates where the next voice is to enter. An alternate version of the text is also popular: By the flood of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion. The melody-only hymn is especially appropriate for children and youth. 246 By the Babylonian...

...symbolism of the lyre and harp in representations of King David and other Biblical musicians. 163. "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when...we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein." (Book of Common Prayer.) 164. In the King James Version, "O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;...

...fresh springs are in thee." And when the captivity comes, the love only grows greater in the loss: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...