 | Bibles - 2006 - 342 pages
...within your gates, O Jerusalem! (Ps. 122:1-2) How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem. let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if 1 do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | William R. White - Religion - 1982 - 132 pages
...mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | BCP7205 - Religion - 1984 - 1042 pages
...called for mirth: * "Sing us one of the songs of Zion." How shall we sing the LORD'S song * upon an alien soil? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, * let my right hand forget its skill. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, * if I do... | |
 | Alan F. Segal - Religion - 1986 - 230 pages
...mirth saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion." How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | Philip J. Lee - Religion - 1993 - 368 pages
...land?" — the only acceptable answer was to remember the holy community, its heritage in Jerusalem: If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 1987 - 224 pages
...her ornaments, but leaves out some small thing, as a memorial to Jerusalem,' B. "since it is said, 'If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | John E. Hartley - Religion - 1988 - 620 pages
...socket and his arm be broken at the elbow if he has harmed an orphan (vv. 21-22) occurs in Ps. 137:5-6: "If I forget you. O Jerusalem, let my right hand [wither). Let my tongue stick to my palate, if I do not remember you" (cf. Ps. 7:4-7 [Eng. 3-6]). 3. See J. Murtagh. "The Book of Job and the Book of... | |
 | Erhard Gerstenberger - Bible - 2001 - 572 pages
...full expression of this sort we have in 542 Ps l37:5-6, in a twofold variant, chiastically juxtaposed: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you." Similarly Ps 7:4-6 (RSV 3-5). The deadly... | |
 | Thomas D. McGonigle, Thomas C. McGonigle, James F. Quigley - Religion - 1988 - 228 pages
...mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you. if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest... | |
 | Peter Mazar, Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler - Holy Week - 1991 - 248 pages
...mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" How could we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem Psalmi37:i-6 above... | |
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If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said,... 
