Psalm 137:4
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How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
In other translations
How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Isaiah 22:12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Amos 8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
- Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
- Lamentations 5:14-1514 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. 15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- Isaiah 49:21Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
- Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
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