Historical Instances of Use
- Pope Gregory X quoted Psalm 137 ("If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning") before departing the Crusades upon his election by the papal conclave, 1268–1271.
- In his What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? speech, Frederick Douglass compared the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society asking him to deliver their Fourth of July speech to the actions of the antagonists asking the Jews to sing in a foreign land.
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