...remembered in all its force the lament of the Jews in Babylon — " How shall we sing the songs of the Lord in a strange land ! If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." No associations to me are so strong as those which have connected themselves with music ; and none...

...remembered in all its force the lament of the Jews in Babylon — " How shall we sing the songs of the Lord in a strange land ! If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." No associations to me are so strong as those which have connected themselves with music ; and none...

...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 I forget thee,...forget her cunning ; if I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth f." Here we have...

...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which...

...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which...

...home, and opened the Bible, and beheld these words :— " If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, let my richt hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee,...roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above m\ chief joy." And I said to myself, as I closed the oracle, truly it is an awful thing for a man to...

...remembrance of the desolation of Jerusalem. ' If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning ; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.' It baa become an ordinance of their rabbins, in some places, that when a man builds a new house, he...

...Though he himself was advanced and provided for, yet said he, " if I forget thee, О Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." When the temple was dedicated, Solomon, in his address to God, had thus expressed himself: " If thy...

...he sees any idol preferred before him. The psalmist could say, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Similar must be our feelings with respect to Christ, if we would enjoy his presence. We must prefer...

...for the peace of Jerusalem ; they shall prosper that love thee. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." If to David, and other godly persons, the land of Israel was dear, our land should be so to us. Did...