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Super flumina Babilonis.
Psal. cxxxvii.
VV.VV.
The people of God in their banishment, seing Gods true religion decaye, lyued in greate anguish and sorow of harte, the whiche grief the Caldeons did so litle pitie, that they rather increased the same dayly, with tauntes, reproches and blasphemies againste God, wherfore the Israelites desire God to punish the Edomites who prouoked the Babilonians againste them, and moued (by the spirite of God) prophecy the destruction of Babilon, where they were handeled so tirannously
When
as we sat in Babylon,
ye riuers rounde about:
and in remēbraunce of Sion
the teares for grief burst out.
We hāgd our harps & instruments,
the willow trees vpon,
for in that placemen for their vse,
had planted many one.
ye riuers rounde about:
and in remēbraunce of Sion
the teares for grief burst out.
We hāgd our harps & instruments,
the willow trees vpon,
for in that placemen for their vse,
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Then they to whom we prisoners were,
sayde to vs tauntingly:
Now let vs heare your Ebrue songes,
and pleasant melody.
Alas (sayd we) who can once frame,
his sorowfull hart to syng:
The prayses of our louing God,
thus vnder a straunge kyng?
sayde to vs tauntingly:
Now let vs heare your Ebrue songes,
and pleasant melody.
Alas (sayd we) who can once frame,
his sorowfull hart to syng:
The prayses of our louing God,
thus vnder a straunge kyng?
But yet if I Ierusalem,
out of my hart let slyde:
Then let my fingers quyte forget,
the warblyng harp to guyde.
And let my tong within my mouth,
betyde for euer fast:
If that I ioy; before I see,
thy full deliueraunce past.
out of my hart let slyde:
Then let my fingers quyte forget,
the warblyng harp to guyde.
And let my tong within my mouth,
betyde for euer fast:
If that I ioy; before I see,
thy full deliueraunce past.
Therfore (O Lorde) remember now,
the cursed noyse and cry:
That Edoms sonnes againste vs made,
when they razed our citie.
Remember Lorde theyr cruell wordes,
when as with one accorde.
They cryed, on sack, and raze their wals,
in despite of theyr Lorde.
the cursed noyse and cry:
That Edoms sonnes againste vs made,
when they razed our citie.
Remember Lorde theyr cruell wordes,
when as with one accorde.
They cryed, on sack, and raze their wals,
in despite of theyr Lorde.
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