Psalms 137:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne?

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  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day dyd the Lorde God of hoastes call men vnto weepyng and mournyng, to baldnesse and girdyng about with sackcloth.
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then shalt thou thinke by thy selfe, who hath begotten me these, seeyng I am barren and alone, a captiue and an outcast? and who hath norished them vp for me? I am desolate and alone, but from whence come these?
  • Lam 5:14-15 : 14 The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke. 15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
  • Hos 9:4 : 4 They powre out no wine for a drynke offeryng vnto the Lorde, neither shall their slayne offeringes be pleasaunt vnto him, they shalbe vnto them as the bread of mourners, all they that eate shalbe defiled: for their bread for their soules shall not come into the house of the Lorde.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songues of the temple shalbe howlinges in that day sayth the Lorde God: many dead bodies shalbe in euery place, they shal cast them foorth with scilence.

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  • Ps 137:1-3
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    1By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion.

    2We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.

    3For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and for our waylynges myrth, saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion.

  • Ps 137:5-6
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    5If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget her cunning.

    6Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth.

  • Ps 126:1-4
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    72%

    1A song of high degrees. When God shall cause them of Sion that were led into captiuitie for to returne: we shalbe as men that dreamed.

    2Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.

    3God hath brought great thinges to passe for vs: we be made merie.

    4Make vs O God that be led into captiuitie: for to returne as riuers into the south.

  • Ps 119:54
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    54Thy statutes haue ben my songes: in the house of my pilgrimages.

  • Ps 44:20
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    20If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:

  • Isa 38:20
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    20To heale me it is the Lordes worke, and we will sing my songes in the house of the Lorde all the dayes of our lyfe.

  • Ps 13:1
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    1To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me?

  • Ps 98:4-5
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    4Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto God all ye in the earth: make a ioly noyse, reioyce you chearfully, & syng psalmes.

    5Syng psalmes vnto God playing vpon an harpe: vpon an harpe, and with the sounde of a psalterie.

  • Ps 53:6
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    6Who is he that wyll geue saluation vnto Israel out of Sion? when the Lord wyll reduce his people out of captiuitie, Iacob wyll reioyce, and Israel wyll be glad.

  • Lam 5:20
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    20Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?

  • Jer 9:19
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    19For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

  • Ps 106:47
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    47Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse.

  • Ps 149:1
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    1Prayse ye the Lorde, syng vnto God a newe song: he ought to be praysed in the congregation of saintes.

  • Ps 44:24
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    24wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation?

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.

    2Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11See howe they rewarde vs, to come for to cast vs out of thy possession whiche thou hast geuen vs to inherite.

  • Ps 115:2
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    2Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God?

  • Jer 5:19
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    19But if they say, wherfore doth the Lorde our God all this vnto vs? Then aunswere them: because that lyke as ye haue forsaken me, & serued straunge gods in your lande, euen so shal ye serue straungers out of your lande.

  • Ps 132:1
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    1A song of high degrees. O God be mindfull of Dauid: with all his affliction.

  • Ps 147:1
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    1Prayse ye the Lorde, for it is a good thyng: sing psalmes vnto our Lorde, for it is a pleasaunt thing, his praise is to be desired.

  • Ps 14:7
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    7Who shall geue saluation vnto Israel: out of Sion? When God will deliuer his people out of captiuitie: then wyll Iacob reioyce, and Israel be glad.

  • Ps 114:1
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    1When Israel came out of Egypt: & the house of Iacob from among the barbarous people.

  • Ps 116:19
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    19in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem. Prayse ye the Lorde.

  • Ps 42:4
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    4And I powred out of me my very heart, remembryng this howe that before tyme I haue passed with a great number, bringyng the vnto the house of the Lord: with a voyce of ioy & prayse, & with a company that kept holy day.

  • Jer 14:8
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    8For thou art the comfort and helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble: Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the lande, and as one that goeth his iourney, and cometh in only to remayne for a night?

  • Ps 39:12
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    12Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.

  • Jer 8:19
    69%

    19For lo, the voyce of the crying of my people is hearde, for feare of them that come from a farre countrey: Is not the Lord in Sion? Is not her king in her? Wherefore then haue they greeued me shall the Lorde say with their images, and foolishe straunge fashions of a forraine god?

  • Isa 64:12
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    12Wylt thou not be intreated O Lorde, for all this wylt thou holde thy peace, and scourge vs so sore?

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    1A wise instruction (to be song) of Asaph. O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.

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    17And though all this be come vpon vs: yet we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt.

  • Isa 52:9
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    9Be glad O thou desolate Hierusalem, and reioyce together: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath deliuered Hierusalem.

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    49Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: which thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth that thou wouldest perfourme.

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    4And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.

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    1Syng you vnto God a newe song: sing ye vnto God all that be in the earth.

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    4They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:

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    6Syng psalmes to the Lorde, syng psalmes: syng psalmes to our kyng, sing psalmes.

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    2Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.

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    31My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.