 | 1808 - 874 pages
...Forthere they that carried us away captive, required of us a song ; and they that wasted us, 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, O Jerusalem, let my rignt hand forget her cunning. If I do not... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us 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?" Psal. cxxxvii. But the prophet Isaiah is more full than any upon this head; he... | |
 | 1814 - 804 pages
...EDITOR. " For they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they that wasted us, required of us mirth ; saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion." How truly, Sir, is this the position of Erin ! The churches require at her hands the melodies of Zion,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...thereof. For they that carried us away captive required of ns a song, and they that wasted us 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 !" But no sooner had the Lord " stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, than... | |
 | John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 432 pages
...thercof. For they that carried us away captive, required of us a song ; and they that wasted us, 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 forgct thec, Oh Jerusalem ! lct my right hand forgct its cunning. If I do... | |
 | England - 1854 - 800 pages
...there they that carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted us, mirth. Sing as one of the songs of Zion. " How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her cunning. " If I do... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1820 - 660 pages
...For there they that carried us away captive lequired of us a song; and they that wasted us 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, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning- If I do not... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...For there they that carried ua away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us, 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." Those who have led the church captive into Babylon have required of her songs,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 444 pages
...lines naturally remind us of the cruelty of Verres. — Oneof the charges against this governor was, one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." Psalm cxxxvii.... | |
 | George Wilkins - English fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...therein; 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 Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?'—And it was the genuine feeling of true patriotism that prompted the Psalmist... | |
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth,... 
