Psalms 137:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?strange…: Heb. land of a stranger?

WEB

How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

ASV

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

LSV

How do we sing the song of YHWH, || On the land of a stranger?

YLT

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

DBY

How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

DRC136:4

How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

GNV

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

JPS

How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

LXXE136:4

How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?Gr. on.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָ֑ה עַ֝֗ל אַדְמַ֥ת נֵכָֽר׃

LXX-Br136:4

Πῶς ᾄσωμεν τὴν ᾠδὴν Κυρίου ἐπὶ γῆς ἀλλοτρίας;

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• Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
• Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
• Hosea 9:4They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will…
• Lamentations 5:14–15The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
• Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
• Isaiah 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

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