 | John Codman - 1834 - 456 pages
...sentiments so beautifully recorded in the 137th Psalm. — If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Among these, Ezra was pre-eminently distinguished. He was a man of superior... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1834 - 464 pages
...men have a place, it should not be too much for us to say : — If I forget thee let my right hand forget her cunning ; if I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not thee above my chief joy.- The very dust of that desolation which has been allowed, at times, to come... | |
 | John Collins McCabe - 1835 - 204 pages
...shall wipe away All tears from Israel's eyes. * '• If I forget thec, O ! Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."— Psalm cxxzvii. 5—6. A FATHER'S LAMENT FOR HIS FIRST BORN. She's... | |
 | 1835 - 206 pages
...palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. " IF I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." This was the utterance of generous patriotism, and of ardent piety.... | |
 | 1835 - 696 pages
...our prayers and our labours ; we begin to say, " If I forget thee, О Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" and while there is a nation, or people, who have not heard of a Saviour's... | |
 | Morris Jacob Raphall - 1835 - 440 pages
...shall we sing 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...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." (Psalm cxxxvii.) Such was the sorrowful lament of the Hebrew captives.... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pages
...the captive Israelites when they exclaimed, — " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." After he was licensed to preach the Gospel, he continued during two... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...of Babylon, and remembering Zion," he could say of Jerusalem, " If I forget thee, let my right hand forget her cunning : if I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." He could say also, with the psalmist, " Whom have I in heaven, O Lord,... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1836 - 814 pages
...shall we sing 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...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy," Ps. cxxxvii. 1 — 6. Several of the captives were raised to situations... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 612 pages
...enemies. Say with the psalmest, Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6 : " If I forget thee. O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." Study to kee'p by the poor church of Christ, especially in her returning... | |
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy... 
