The Psalmes of David The King And Prophet, And Of other holy Prophets, paraphas'd in English: Conferred with the Hebrew Veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee Paraphrase. By R. B. [i.e. Richard Brathwait] |
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Psal. 137. Super flumina Babyl.
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Psal. 137. Super flumina Babyl.
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Downe sate we by the rivers side,that waters Babels wall:
To raise whose streames, a springing tide
of teares our eyes let fall.
Remembring Sion in our vowes,
our uselesse Harps we hung
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Upon amidst the willow boughes,as slightly tun'd as strung.
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For they that led us captives there,requir'd of us a song;
A Sion-song (said) let us heare,
these moanes, some mirth among.
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O no! nor harp we have, nor hand,nor voice to straine, nor string:
Our Sion-song, in Shinar-land,
song of the Lord to sing.
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If, O Jerusalem, I setno more by thee than so;
Let my right hand her skill forget,
my voice her song forgoe.
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My tongue fast to my palate cling,ac'd never tune employ,
If ought I doe but Salem sing,
the Soveraigne of my joy.
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Be mindfull, Lord, of Edoms sons,who said on Salems day,
Raze, Raze, to her foundations,
with earth her levell lay.
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Thou Daughter, Babel, laidst us waste,thy selfe shalt wasted be:
O happy! that as done thou hast
to us, shall doe to thee.
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O happy! that thy little ones,from mothers breasts shall rash,
And (pitilesse) against the stones,
their braines in pieces dash.
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