...immortal lines of Psalms 137:1-2 that made all willows weep: "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." The quote here is from the King James version, which generations of...

...the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people! 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;...

...circumstances of the nineteenth century have so sensitized them. 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...

...singing in the context of such a hostile environment. 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...

...part of Arabia, today it is known as Jebel Eslamiyah. "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 required of us a song... ". Reflecting...

...Israelites. The first two verses of this Psalm read: "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." Just as the exiled Israelites sung only mournfully for their captors...

...Euphrates, they sang with tears of distant Palestine: "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...

...(the Church) has been led away captive. Psalms 137:1-4 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...

...plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitren people! "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;...

...75. This is a reminiscence of the start of Psalm 137: '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.' 76. The word for 'brigand's' used by Berlioz is 'Macairian', referring...