...137. super liumiw. BY the waters of Bahylon we sat down and wept : when we. rememhered thee, O Slon. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness : Sing...

...Psalm cxxxvii. (p) 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 captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : " Sing...

...endureth for ever. Day №. Lord of lords : for his mercy endureth for ever. PsALMlST. Super flumina. 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...

...refused to be comforted, while their conquerors tauntingly commanded them to sing the songs of Sion.3 " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, When we remembered thee, O Sion. We hanged our harpe upon the willows, In the midst thereof. For there, They that carried us away captive...

...ground. The Jews lamented their dispersion, by the rivers of Babylon, in the same mournful posture : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion."m But what is more remarkable, we find Judea under the figure of a sorrowful woman sitting on...

...this figure. Tbe Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in tbe same pensive posture. ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Skm.' But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...

...inheritance into a strange country, their spirits, their strength, and their hearts forsook them.—' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, Oh Zion! As for our harps we hanged them upon the trees that are therein; for they that led us away...

...instructive to listen to a country's woes as told by her children, and to mourn with them that mourn. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when...required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness, saying, sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If...

...О give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy enduretli for ever. Psalm 137. Sufitr fumino. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harpa, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away...

...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, 0 Si,iin.' Iii..t what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a women in sorrow sitting on...