Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Strange land

General references

Bible References

How shall

Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance;
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have left the city gate,
the young men, their music.
Hosea 9:4
They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.
Amos 8:3
In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”

Strange land

Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say within yourself,
‘Who fathered these for me?
I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,
exiled and wandering—
but who brought them up?
See, I was left by myself—
but these, where did they come from?’”

General references

Job 30:31
My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.


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