Psalm 137:4

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

Ecclesiastes 3:4

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

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 49:21

And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

Lamentations 5:14-15

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

Hosea 9:4

They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!

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

Strange land

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Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Hosea 9:4
They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!

Strange land

Isaiah 49:21
And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

General references

Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.