Yeah, yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion. Yeah, yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion. Boney M. was a band that featured vocalists from the Caribbean. Now how shall we sing the Lord song Most of them assimilated so thoroughly into their new lives that they couldn’t imagine ever living anywhere else. Then the wicked Carried us away in captivity required from us a song. 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 … 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? By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down. https://www.last.fm/music/The+Melodians/_/Rivers+Of+Babylon 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 … 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’. 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. Directed by Albert Sandoval. We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 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.’ Top image: The Burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s Army (1630-1660) ( … If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. With Crispin Glover, Connie Stevens, Sam Quartin, Joely Fisher. A Cover . After sixty years by the rivers of Babylon, they forgot Jerusalem. The ancient city of Babylon has an interesting history of relationship to its rivers and waterways. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, we also wept, when we remembered Zion. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down. 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. “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. Dementia and deceit haunt a widow as her estranged son and the …