...stones beneath, some visitor probably, has deeply but rudely scratched with a knife, the words : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion." The yellow lichen was beginning to deface some of the letters of this inscription, and many...

...137. Super Jlwnina, BY the waters of Babylon we eat down and wept, when we remembered thec, O bion. 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...

...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,...

...celebrated in antiquity, mentioned by Herodotus and other early historians. («2) « j}y ^6 wa ters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered...we hanged them up, upon the trees that are therein. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?"— Psalms cxxxvii. But moaning winds sigh o'er...

...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 Judaea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...

...shed like water on every side of Jerusalem ; and there was no man to bury them" (Ps. Ixxix. 1, &c.). " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion .... If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning : if I do not remember thee,...

...powerful testimonial to the moral attraction of the Jewish system!) ; and the common feeling was, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion!" Neither did a return to their own land weaken this affection. It grew in strength (in how few soever...

...this figure. The psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : ' ughs, and under his branches did all the. beasts of the field bring forth Zion.' But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...

...that is told," and hence doubly susceptible of the full extent of their present hopeless condition ! " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when...trees that are therein. For they that led us away captives required of us then a song, and melody m our heaviness : £ing us one of the songs of Sion....

...and that interesting associations are awakened in conjunction with it by that very beautiful Psalm, " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when...Sion ! As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the willow trees that are therein." (Psalm 137.) " The tender and melancholy recollections of the captive...