On Reading the Bible by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Let me, having said this, at once enter a caveat, a qualification. Although men do not go to the stake for the cadences, the phrases of our Authorised Version, it remains true that these cadences, these phrases, have for three hundred years exercised a most powerful effect upon their emotions. They do so by association of ideas by the accreted memories of our race enwrapping connotation around a word, a name -- say the name "Jerusalem," or the name "Zion":

And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,