“But not to pass away from our subject, come, let us take in our hands and examine this psalm, which the pure and stainless souls sing to God, saying: "By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof," clearly giving the name o…”
Methodius of Olympus, 4th c. — SYMPOSIUM OR THE BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 3:3
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2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
— Psalms 137:2 —
3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?