Psalms 137:4
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
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Referenced Verses
- Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
- Isa 22:12 : 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:
- Isa 49:21 : 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?
- Lam 5:14-15 : 14 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.
- Hos 9:4 : 4 They 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 use of the LORD.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 And 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.
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1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our har upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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1 A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
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54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
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6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
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19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
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1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
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49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
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4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
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31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.