There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? A Cover . “Rivers of Babylon” also marked Boney M.’s most-impressive showing in the United States, where it broke the top 40 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart as well as the Hot 100 itself. The Melodians were a rocksteady band formed in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Jamaica in 1963, by Tony Brevett, Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton. Boney M. was a band that featured vocalists from the Caribbean. Top image: The Burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s Army (1630-1660) ( … By the rivers of Babylon: Why a 2,500-year-old Hebrew poem still matters On July 29, Jews around the world will observe Tisha B’av commemorating destruction of … By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, we also wept, when we remembered Zion. With Crispin Glover, Connie Stevens, Sam Quartin, Joely Fisher. https://www.last.fm/music/The+Melodians/_/Rivers+Of+Babylon Directed by Albert Sandoval. We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst. Dementia and deceit haunt a widow as her estranged son and the … The ancient city of Babylon has an interesting history of relationship to its rivers and waterways. Rivers of Babylon Lyrics: By the rivers of Babylon / There we sat down / Yeah, we wept / When we remembered Zion / By the rivers of Babylon / There we sat down / Yeah, we … Ezekiel 31:4 | View whole chapter | See verse in context The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Yeah, yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion. Yeah, yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion. Then the wicked Carried us away in captivity required from us a song. By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down. If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. After sixty years by the rivers of Babylon, they forgot Jerusalem. For there, those who carried us away captive required of us a song; and those who tormented us required of us mirth, saying, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ Most of them assimilated so thoroughly into their new lives that they couldn’t imagine ever living anywhere else. Mesopotamia was a civilization that built up around the area between the western Euphrates and the eastern Tigris rivers; literally translated, it means ‘land between the rivers’. By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down. Now how shall we sing the Lord song