Psalms 137:4
How can we sing Yahweh's song 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 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Isa 49:21 : 21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
- Lam 5:14-15 : 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
- Hos 9:4 : 4 They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, Neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; All who eat of it will be polluted; For their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Ps 137:1-33 verses86%
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows in the midst of it, We hung up our harps.
3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
- Ps 137:5-62 verses73%
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; If I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- Ps 126:1-44 verses72%
1 > When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
3 Yahweh has done great things for us, And we are glad.
4 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, Like the streams in the Negev.
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54 Your statutes have been my songs, In the house where I live.
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20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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20 Yahweh is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
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1 > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Ps 98:4-52 verses71%
4 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, With the harp and the voice of melody.
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6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Then Jacob shall rejoice. Israel shall be glad.
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20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
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47 Save us, Yahweh, our God, Gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise!
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1 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, His praise in the assembly of the saints.
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24 Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
- Lam 5:1-22 verses70%
1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
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11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
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2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
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19 It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
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1 > Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
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1 Praise Yah, For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
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7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, Then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
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19 In the courts of Yahweh's house, In the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
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4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
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8 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
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12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?
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12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
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1 > God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
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19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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17 All this has come on us, Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
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9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
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49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
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4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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1 Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
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11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, And declare among the people what he has done.
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4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
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6 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
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2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
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2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
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35 Say you, Save us, God of our salvation, Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, To triumph in your praise.
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31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.