 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.  Blackwood's Magazine - 380. lappuse1925Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 lapas
...verse of the 137th psalm. In our version it is twice translated by the same English word forget, " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ;" in the first instance, I consider it to be rightly so translated, but erroneously so in... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1854 - 332 lapas
...steady friends. You will say of her, the church of God, as David said of old of the city of God, " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee,"* in thy trouble to help thee, in thy dangers to assist thee, in... | |
 | John Aiton - 1854 - 458 lapas
...still, How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land ? To this day their solemn words are, " If I forget thee. 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not... | |
 | Charles Weiss - 1854 - 436 lapas
...backsliders, martyrs, spectacles of blood, doleful sounds of wailing, be ye the movers of this auditory. ' If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 492 lapas
...they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can wo sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." Fellow-citizens,... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 lapas
...carried us away captive required of us mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not... | |
 | John Harvey (Methodist minister.) - 1855 - 192 lapas
...captives by the rivers of Babylon, when reflecting on the city or place from which they had been driven : "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem... | |
 | Witness, John Ross MacDuff - 1855 - 164 lapas
...who were mingling their tears with the streams of Babel, finds an echo in every sanctified breast : " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 lapas
...hted and giddy cunning. "Cunning" is used in the same sense, in our translation of the Psalms : — "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning," Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Which Sandys rightly paraphrases, — "Let my fingers their melodious skill... | |
 | 1855 - 1450 lapas
...charm, which commends it to the liveliest feelings of every truly enlightened and Christian heart. " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," is the language, not of sentimentalism, but... | |
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