Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

How can we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?

International Standard Version

How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


How can we sing the Lord’s song
In a strange and foreign land?

Bible in Basic English

How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

How could we sing the song of Yahweh in {a foreign land}?

Modern King James verseion

How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁוּר שׁירo 
Shiyr 
Usage: 86

the Lord's

Usage: 0

שׁירה שׁיר 
Shiyr 
Usage: 90

in a strange
נכר 
Nekar 
Usage: 36

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

3 For there our captors demanded of us songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Isaiah 22:12

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 49:21

“Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who has begotten these for me,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And am barren, an exile and a wanderer?
And who has reared these?
Behold, I was left alone;
From where did these come?’”

Lamentations 5:14-15

Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

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