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Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS. › Psalm 137: PSALM CXXXVII.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hanged our [silent] Harps unstrung; For they who had us Captives made, [In scorn] required of us a Song.
2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hang'd our [silent] Harps unstrung; For they who had us Captives made, [In scorn] requir'd of us a Song.
3 They that had made our Country wast, To make sport [of us] talked thus, Now sing us one of Zion's songs, [Said they] insulting over us.
3 They that had made our Country wast, To make sport [of us] talked thus, Now sing us one of Sion's songs, [Said they] insulting over us.
4 How shall we sing God's sacred songs, Thus [Captives] in a foreign land?
5 If I Jerusalem forget, Let [Music] skill forsake my hand.