 | Peter Mazar, Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler - 1991 - 248 páginas
...the heavenly country, where we are to repose after all our trials. Prosper Gueranger BY the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors... | |
 | Stuart H. Surlin, Walter C. Soderlund - 1990 - 510 páginas
...with "babylon". The Melodians used Psalm 137 to produce the classic "Rivers of Babylon": By the Rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, And there we wept When we remember Zion, For the wicked Carried us away captivity Required from us a song, But how can we sing... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - 1991 - 388 páginas
...theological meaning of the exile is best captured by the poignant language of Ps. 137. By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors... | |
 | Earl F. Palmer - 1991 - 196 páginas
...prayer-songs of the Old Testament. A striking example of these is found in Psalm 137, "By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. . . . For there our captors asked us for songs . . . , 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion!' How could... | |
 | William L. Holladay - 1995 - 412 páginas
...that depicts unforgettably the desolation of the Jewish exiles suddenly far from home: "By the rivei-s of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. . . . How could we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?" (137:1, 4). And their bitter, helpless rage... | |
 | Renita J. Weems - 1995 - 182 páginas
...church, the young boy swallows the lump in his throat and begins reciting Psalm 137. By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - 1995 - 342 páginas
...example, one familiar to everyone: Psalm 137. The psalm opens with the moving lament: By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors... | |
 | Cheryl J. Sanders - 1999 - 200 páginas
...raises questions that interrogate the exilic status of African American Christians. "By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion . . . For there our captors asked us for songs" (Psalm 137:1, 3a, NRSV). Over against the Babylonians'... | |
 | Jean Pierre Prévost - 1997 - 112 páginas
...the holy mountain. Everyone knows the famous refrain, full of nostalgia, of Psalm 137: "By the rivers of Babylon — / there we sat down and there we wept/ when we remembered Zion" (v. 1). G"nly a return to Zion, long cherished as an impossible dream (see 126:1), can bring back laughter... | |
 | William J. Doorly - 1997 - 218 páginas
...history of their descendants and the totality of western civilization for millennia. By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. ...If I forget you O Jerusalem. let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.... | |
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By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps. For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion! 
