Verse 4

How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land?

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!”