Sing Glory #655
Display Title: By the Babylonian rivers First Line: By the Babylonian rivers Meter: 87 87 77 Date: 1999
Sing Glory #655
1 By the Babylonian rivers
we sat down in grief and wept;
hung our harps upon a willow,
mourned for Zion while we slept.
2 There our captors, in derision,
did require of us a song;
so we sat with staring vision
and the days were hard and long.
3 How shall we sing the Lord's song
in a strange and bitter land;
can our voices veil the sorrow?
Lord God, hear your lonely band.
Source: In Every Corner Sing: songs of God's world #63
First Line: | By the Babylonian rivers |
Title: | By the Babylonian Rivers |
Author: | Ewald Bash (1964) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 |
Place of Origin: | United States |
Language: | English |
Notes: | French translation: "Sur des rives étrangères" by Daniel Hameline; Spanish translation: "En ribera babilonia" by John Glaser |
Copyright: | From "Songs for Today," © 1964 American Lutheran Church. Reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress. |