 | Joseph Jones - 1848 - 444 pages
...Zion. 2 We hanged our harps Upon the willows in the midst thereof. (II. Insolence of their masters.) 3 For there they that carried us away captive Required...Required of us mirth, Saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? (III. Their affliction for Jerusalem.)... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1849 - 544 pages
...dreariness of his banishment will be alleviated by the bright anticipation before him. Ver. 3,4 — "For there they that carried us away captive required...the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?" This alludes to the contempt and mockery which the children of Israel had to sustain... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1849 - 508 pages
...: yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Wo hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required...that wasted us required of us mirth, saying. Sing us ono of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If 1 forget thee, O... | |
 | Margaret Diane LeCompte - 1850 - 650 pages
...dreariness of his banishment will be- alleviated by the bright anticipation before him. Ver. 3, 4.—" For there they that carried us away captive required...us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord'* song in a strange land?" This alludes to the contempt and mockery which the children of Israel... | |
 | Young people - 1852 - 1020 pages
...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...required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion." (Ps. cxxxvii. 1, 2, 3.) Yet this captivity was not designed for their ruin, but for their repentance... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...; 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 mirth, saying — Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' Do you not admire the resolution of the captive, the patriotism and piety which breathe in his... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...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...songs of Zion.' "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?'' Nothing could be more touching than this Psalm of David, — the feeling, the... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...remembered Zion. " We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. " For there they mat carried us away captive required of us a song ; and...songs of Zion.' " How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?'' Nothing could be more touching than this Psalm of David, — the feeling, the... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1851 - 228 pages
...For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song1, aad they that wasted us asked for mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How...the Lord's song in a strange land. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave... | |
 | James W. Redfield - 1852 - 348 pages
...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...shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land ? If 1 forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning ; If I do not remember thee, Let my... | |
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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,... 
