...children from whom they were separated. ... I suddenly realized the emorional impact of the Hebrew Psalm: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered tliee, O Zion!" They too must have prayed with theit windows open toward home. lo who daily faced such...

...reigns over the nations; God sits upon his holy throne. How will you praise God today? Evening 137:1-4 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 who...

...gives the psalm its peculiar character and its religious profundity. 137. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows there we hung up our harps,1 3 For there our captors required of us songs, and...

..."vigorously oppose" any attempt to hand them over to Germany. Borgongini-Duca "concluded by quoting the 137th Psalm — 'By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O Zion' — and predicting 'God willing, you will return to the Promised Land one day'" (p. 198). On...

...ever. 26 0 give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever. One Hundred Thirty-seven 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered Zion. 2 As for our harps we hung them up: upon the trees that are in that land. 3 For there those who...

...psalmist's lament describing the captivity of the Israelites in Babylon (604-562 BC), he tells how: 'By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion'. They were mindful of the holy city of Jerusalem and God's house. (It was a psalm often sung...

...of Hosea's wife, is like the dew that goes quickly away, but God's love "endures forever." 137.1,4 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion. How shall we sing the LORD s song upon an alien soil? This is one of the few psalms that...

...popularised by Psalm 137, where lines which enshrine the trauma of enforced migration can be found: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee, O Sion". In Jewish culture, the diaspora is held to date from 586 BC onwards, when Jerusalem was destroyed in...

...endures for ever; 26 Give thanks to the God of heaven,* for God's mercy endures for ever. Psalm 137 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...

...law of Moses had assigned them, will be entangled in the errors of the world, you hear him saying : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered ZIon. "« He sets forth the wailings of those who have fallen, and shows that they who are living in...