Psalm 137:4 {136:4}
Good News Translation
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?

Contemporary English Version
Here in a foreign land, how can we sing about the LORD?

New American Bible
But how could we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

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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 the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Lamentations 5:14,15 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. . . .

Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

Amos 8:3 And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

strange land.

Isaiah 49:21 And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?

Context
By the Rivers of Babylon
3For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion. 4How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:27
And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which David the king of Israel had prepared.

Nehemiah 12:46
And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Nehemiah gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by day, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the sons of Aaron.

Psalm 137:3
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