Psalms Chapter 137 verse 4 Holy Bible
How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?
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How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
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How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?
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How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
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How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?
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How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?
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Psalms 137 : 4 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.