 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811
...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 Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812
...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 Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1812
...History does not exhibit a more melancholy contrast than in the former and present state of Spain. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion." It is impossible for a scholar and gentleman, even imperfectly acquainted with the autient Annals... | |
 | Andrew Lumisden - Italy - 1812 - 478 pages
...f Edifices antiques de Rome, p. 78. J Lamentations, cb. 1 1. v. 10. § On Medals, dial.fi. fig 13. waters of Babylon we sat down and wept ; when we remembered thee, O Sion."* — And he adds, " that we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow, sitting on the ground, in a... | |
 | rev. John Brougham - 1813
...should soon " have put down their enemies, and " tamed my hand against their adver" saries." — " By the waters of Babylon " we sat down and wept, when we re*6 membered thee, O Sion !" When it was too late to remedy the evils we had brought upon thee when... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814
...Cabal ae mysteria," &c. The following year he published a paraphrase upon that beautiful ode the 137th Psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion," &c. He began early to be inflamed with an ardent desire of travelling for his improvement in literature,... | |
 | Biography - 1814
...Cabalae mysteria," &c. The following year he published a paraphrase upon that beautiful ode the 137th Psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Siop," &c. He began early to be inflamed with an ardent desire of travelling for his improvement in... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 406 pages
...27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords : for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM 137- Super jlumina. 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... | |
 | 1815 - 422 pages
...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 Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 379 pages
...divinely-inspired poets and prophets, Isaiah and Jeremiah. How big with meaning are the words of David : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion! We hanged our harps on the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away... | |
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For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? 
