Lord Byron's "We sat down and wept by the waters", a versified paraphrase of Psalm 137, was published in his "Hebrew Melodies" in 1815. The poetry was set by, among others, Isaac Nathan (1815) and Samuel Sebastian Wesley (). The poem was translated in French by Alexis Paulin Paris, and in German by Adolf Böttger. A German translation by , "An Babylons Wassern gefangen", was set by Carl Loewe (No. 2 of his "Hebräische Gesänge", Op. 4, 1823). Another German translation was set by Ferruccio Busoni ("An Babylons Wassern wir weinten" in "Zwei hebräische Melodien von Lord Byron", BV 202, 1884).