 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1869 - 252 lapas
...of Babylon we sat down And wept, when we remembered thee, 0 Zion As for our harps, we hanged them On the trees that are therein; For they that led us away captive required Of us a song and melody in our heaviness: ' Sing us one of the songs of Zion !' How shall we sing the Lord's... | |
 | Charles Kay Ogden, Ivor Armstrong Richards, James Edward Hathorn Wood - 1925 - 136 lapas
...of those already given above may help to make this quite clear: — "By the waters of Babylon We sat down and wept : When we remembered thee, O Sion. As...us then a song, And melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song: In a strange land ? If I forget thee,... | |
 | Vera Meynell - 1925 - 378 lapas
...fallen, and the weapons of war perished^! Authorised Version. PSALM 137 BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Sion. As...us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song : in a strange land ? If I forget thee,... | |
 | Church of England - 1925 - 164 lapas
...flumina. Single. 1 BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Zion. 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... | |
 | George Rylands - 1926 - 216 lapas
...flesh : for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm CXXXVII, v. i and 2. By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Sion. As...hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein. Facing page 120 O give thanks unto the God of heaven : for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks... | |
 | 1927 - 492 lapas
...limits. I. The Psalmist recalleth the sorrows of exile, By the waters of Babylon we sat down, and wept 1 when we remembered thee, O Sion; as for our harps we hanged them up 2 upon the trees that are therein : for they that led us away captive required of us then a song, 3... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1903 - 674 lapas
...setting of the words: By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, When we remembered thee, O Zion; As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein, which, as has been said, "may well have represented, to himself, the heartbroken composer, mourning... | |
 | David Norton - 1993 - 436 lapas
...improved) makes hlaram the comrasi: 'hy the warers of Bahylon we sat down and wept, when we rememhered Sion. As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees, that are therein.' This amoums to more than just the ohservation that Coverdale was a far hetrer prose translator than... | |
 | Stephen Jenks - 1995 - 482 lapas
...in representations of King David and other Biblical musicians. 163. "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee, O Sion. As...we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein." (Book of Common Prayer.) 164. In the King James Version, "O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;... | |
 | Peter Mackridge - 1996 - 218 lapas
...moreover, contains a number of echoes of the Psalms, and above all of Psalm 137 and its third verse: 'For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness.' Why the prophetic, Biblical note to Palamas's poem? We need to recall that it is a thinly disguised... | |
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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. 
