 | Bangor Wales, cathedral - 1852 - 118 pages
...Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song : in a s trange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem : let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth : yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth. Remember the... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...burning and the freezing zone. God helps us to fix our residence in Jerusalem, the city of our God. If I forget thee, О Jerusalem ! let my ¡ right hand forget her cunning ; let my ! tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, j if I prefer not Jerusalem above my j chief... | |
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - Hymns - 1924 - 396 pages
...is usually not difficult if one is familiar with the Psalms. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," is part of the 137th Psalm. The idea of the hymn is based... | |
 | Paul Boyer, Paul S. Boyer - History - 1992 - 436 pages
...and to learn to say with the psalmist: "If I forget thee, O Chicago, O New York, O St. Louis, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer thee not above my chief joy." As civic loyalty of this intensity was called into being, Ely concluded,... | |
 | Khalid A. Sulaiman - Arabic poetry - 1984 - 260 pages
...no less intense than the sentiments expressed by the Psalmist: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if 1 prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. 51 In fact,... | |
 | Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if 1 prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Ps. 137:1-6)... | |
 | Robert Farrar Capon - Religion - 1994 - 192 pages
...the passion/Passion that creates and restores our greatness. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy" (Ps. 137:5-6).... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 1226 pages
...songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I... | |
 | Robert Farrar Capon - Philosophy - 1995 - 388 pages
...Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." The Humanity... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 298 pages
...elsewhere: "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." The emphasis here is on Jerusalem as a signifying place... | |
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. 
