Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? New Living Translation But how can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a pagan land? English Standard Version How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? Berean Standard Bible How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? King James Bible How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? New King James Version How shall we sing the LORD’s song In a foreign land? New American Standard Bible How can we sing the LORD’S song In a foreign land? NASB 1995 How can we sing the LORD’S song In a foreign land? NASB 1977 How can we sing the LORD’s song In a foreign land? Legacy Standard Bible How can we sing a song of Yahweh In a foreign land? Amplified Bible How can we sing the LORD’S song In a strange and foreign land? Christian Standard Bible How can we sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil? Holman Christian Standard Bible How can we sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil? American Standard Version How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land? Aramaic Bible in Plain English How will we sing to you the praises of LORD JEHOVAH in a foreign land? Brenton Septuagint Translation How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Contemporary English Version Here in a foreign land, how can we sing about the LORD? Douay-Rheims Bible How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? English Revised Version How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? GOD'S WORD® Translation How could we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? Good News Translation How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land? International Standard Version How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil? JPS Tanakh 1917 How shall we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land? Literal Standard Version How do we sing the song of YHWH, | On the land of a stranger? Majority Standard Bible How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? New American Bible But how could we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? NET Bible How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land? New Revised Standard Version How could we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? New Heart English Bible How can we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? Webster's Bible Translation How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? World English Bible How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land? Young's Literal Translation How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context By the Rivers of Babylon…3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.” 4How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.… Cross References 2 Chronicles 29:27 And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel. Nehemiah 12:46 For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. Treasury of Scripture How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? how shall Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: Lamentations 5:14,15 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick… strange land. Isaiah 49:21 Then 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? Jump to Previous Foreign Jehovah's LORD's Sing Soil Song Songs Strange StrangerJump to Next Foreign Jehovah's LORD's Sing Soil Song Songs Strange StrangerPsalm 137 1. The constancy of the Jews in captivity7. The prophet curses Edom and Babel (4) Strange land.--The feeling expressed in this question is too natural to need any such explanation as that it was contrary to the Law to sing a sacred song in a strange land. Nehemiah's answer (Nehemiah 2:2-3) offers a direct illustration. Of Jerusalem's choir in Babylon it might truly be said: "Like strangers' voices here they sound, In lands where not a memory strays. Nor landmark breathes of other days, But all is new unhallowed ground." TENNYSON: In Mcmoriam. Verse 4. - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? The "songs of Zion" are Jehovah's songs, used in his worship, suited only for religious occasions. It would be desecration to sing them "in a strange land," among strange people, not to call forth devotional sentiment, but to gratify curiosity.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Howאֵ֗יךְ (’êḵ) Interjection Strong's 349: How?, how!, where can we sing נָשִׁ֥יר (nā·šîr) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural Strong's 7891: To sing a song שִׁיר־ (šîr-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7892: A song, singing of the LORD יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel in עַ֝֗ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against a foreign נֵכָֽר׃ (nê·ḵār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5236: That which is foreign, foreignness land? אַדְמַ֥ת (’aḏ·maṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 127: Ground, land Links Psalm 137:4 NIVPsalm 137:4 NLT Psalm 137:4 ESV Psalm 137:4 NASB Psalm 137:4 KJV Psalm 137:4 BibleApps.com Psalm 137:4 Biblia Paralela Psalm 137:4 Chinese Bible Psalm 137:4 French Bible Psalm 137:4 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 137:4 How can we sing Yahweh's song (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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