Psalms 137:4
How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign 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 At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
- Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will think to yourself,‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”
- Lam 5:14-15 : 14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. 15 Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
- Hos 9:4 : 4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking.“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”
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- Ps 137:1-33 verses86%
1By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.
2On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,
3for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying:“Sing for us a song about Zion!”
- Ps 137:5-62 verses73%
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!
6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.
- Ps 126:1-44 verses72%
1A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the well-being of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.
2At that time we laughed loudly and shouted for joy. At that time the nations said,“The LORD has accomplished great things for these people.”
3The LORD did indeed accomplish great things for us. We were happy.
4O LORD, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.
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54Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
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20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
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20The LORD is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the LORD’s temple.”
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1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
- Ps 98:4-52 verses71%
4Shout out praises to the LORD, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing!
5Sing to the LORD accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music!
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6I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!
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20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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19For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion,‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land! For our houses have been torn down!’”
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47Deliver us, O LORD, our God! Gather us from among the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.
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1Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song! Praise him in the assembly of the godly!
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24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
- Lam 5:1-22 verses70%
1The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
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11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!
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2Why should the nations say,“Where is their God?”
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19“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask,‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ tell them,‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’
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1A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,
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1Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God! Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!
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7I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!
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1When Israel left Egypt, when the family of Jacob left a foreign nation behind,
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19in the courts of the LORD’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!
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4I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
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8You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?
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12Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am a foreign resident with you, a temporary settler, just as all my ancestors were.
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19I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
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12In light of all this, how can you still hold back, LORD? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?
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1A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
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19Then I said,“LORD, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
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17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.
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9In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem.
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49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?
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4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
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1Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth!
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11Sing praises to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!
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4They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.
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6Sing to God! Sing! Sing to our king! Sing!
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2Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
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2Worship the LORD with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing!
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35Say this prayer:“Deliver us, O God who delivers us! Gather us! Rescue us from the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.”
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31My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.