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By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. read more.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
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By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. read more.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust
Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem: they loving thee shall be at rest
Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion: and look thou upon the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. And see thou the sons to thy sons: peace upon Israel.
For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.
And from thee the old wastes were built; the foundations of generation and generation thou shalt raise them up, and it was called to thee, Walling the breach, Turning back the beaten paths to dwell in.
For sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for sake of Jerusalem I will not rest till its justice shall go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a flame shall burn.
I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you. And ye shall not give rest to him till he shall prepare, and till he shall set Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad in her, all ye loving her: rejoice with her from joy, all ye mourning over her:
As a man whom his mother shall comfort him, so will I comfort you; and in Jerusalem ye shall be comforted. And ye saw, and your heart rejoiced, and your bones shall break forth as the tender grass: and the hand of Jehovah was known with his servants, and his wrath to his enemies.
Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people.
And say to them this word: Mine eyes shall bring down tears night and day, and they shall not rest: for the virgin daughter of my people was broken with a great breaking, a very sickly wound.
Being saved from the sword, go: ye shall not stand: remember from far off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come up upon your heart We were ashamed for we heard reproach: shame covered our faces, for strangers came to the holy places of the house of Jehovah.
Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.
Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people. Mine eye flowed and it will not be silent, from no intermission, Till Jehovah shall look forth and see from the heavens. read more.
Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.
Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.
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By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. read more.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
Be strong, and we will be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah shall do the good in his eyes.
And a cry of the people and their wives will be great against their brethren the Jews. And there is which saying, Our sons and our daughters, we being many: and we will take grain and we will eat and live. And there are those saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we pledge, and we will take grain in the famine. read more.
And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards. And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others. And it will kindle to me greatly as I heard their cry and these words. And my heart will take counsel to me, and I shall contend with the nobles and the prefects, and say to them, Ye impose a debt each upon his brother. And I shall give a great convocation against them. And saying to them, We bought off our brethren the Jews, being sold to the nations; according to the sufficiency in us and also will ye sell your brethren? and were they sold to us? And they will be silent, and they found not a word. And it will be said, Not good the word which ye do: will ye not go in the fear of our God from the reproach of the nations our enemies? And also I, my brethren and my young men exacting upon them silver and grain: we will leave off now this debt Turn back now to them according to this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver and the grain, the new wine and the new oil which ye impose upon them. And they will say, We will turn back, and we will not seek from them; thus will we do as thou sayest And I shall call the priests and shall cause them to swear to do according to this word. Also I shook out my arm, and said, Thus God will shake out every man who will not raise up this word from his house and from his labor; so shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the convocation will say, Amen, and praise Jehovah. And the people did according to this word. Also from the day which it was commanded me to be their prefect in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year and even to the thirty and second year to Arthasatha the king, twelve years I and my brethren ate not the bread of the prefect And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God. And also I held fast upon the work of this wall, and we bought not a field: and all my young men being gathered there for the work. And the Jews and prefects a hundred and fifty men, and they coming to us from the nations that were round about us; to my table And what was done for one day, one ox, six choice sheep; and birds were done for me, and within ten days with every wine for abundance: and with this, the bread of the prefect I sought not for the servitude was heavy upon this people
And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards. And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others. And it will kindle to me greatly as I heard their cry and these words. And my heart will take counsel to me, and I shall contend with the nobles and the prefects, and say to them, Ye impose a debt each upon his brother. And I shall give a great convocation against them. And saying to them, We bought off our brethren the Jews, being sold to the nations; according to the sufficiency in us and also will ye sell your brethren? and were they sold to us? And they will be silent, and they found not a word. And it will be said, Not good the word which ye do: will ye not go in the fear of our God from the reproach of the nations our enemies? And also I, my brethren and my young men exacting upon them silver and grain: we will leave off now this debt Turn back now to them according to this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver and the grain, the new wine and the new oil which ye impose upon them. And they will say, We will turn back, and we will not seek from them; thus will we do as thou sayest And I shall call the priests and shall cause them to swear to do according to this word. Also I shook out my arm, and said, Thus God will shake out every man who will not raise up this word from his house and from his labor; so shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the convocation will say, Amen, and praise Jehovah. And the people did according to this word. Also from the day which it was commanded me to be their prefect in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year and even to the thirty and second year to Arthasatha the king, twelve years I and my brethren ate not the bread of the prefect And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God. And also I held fast upon the work of this wall, and we bought not a field: and all my young men being gathered there for the work. And the Jews and prefects a hundred and fifty men, and they coming to us from the nations that were round about us; to my table And what was done for one day, one ox, six choice sheep; and birds were done for me, and within ten days with every wine for abundance: and with this, the bread of the prefect I sought not for the servitude was heavy upon this people
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By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps;
For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
Home » Love of » The jews in exile
By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps;
For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
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Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem: they loving thee shall be at rest
By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. read more.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy. Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy. Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.
For sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for sake of Jerusalem I will not rest till its justice shall go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a flame shall burn. And the nations shall see thy justice, and all kings thy glory: and a new name shall be called to thee which the mouth of Jehovah shall name it And thou wert a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a tiara of royalty in the hand of thy God. read more.
It shall no more be said to thee, Forsaken; and to thy land it shall no more be said, Desolation; for it shall be called to thee, My delight in her, and to thy land, Married: for Jehovah delighted in thee, and thy land shall be married. As a young man will marry a virgin, thy sons shall marry thee: and the bridegroom rejoicing over the bride, thy God will rejoice over thee. I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you. And ye shall not give rest to him till he shall prepare, and till he shall set Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
It shall no more be said to thee, Forsaken; and to thy land it shall no more be said, Desolation; for it shall be called to thee, My delight in her, and to thy land, Married: for Jehovah delighted in thee, and thy land shall be married. As a young man will marry a virgin, thy sons shall marry thee: and the bridegroom rejoicing over the bride, thy God will rejoice over thee. I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you. And ye shall not give rest to him till he shall prepare, and till he shall set Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps;
For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.
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Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.
Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger?