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
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Hosea 9:4
They shall not pour out wine-offerings to LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it shall be polluted, for their bread shall be for their appetite. It sha
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

Strange land

Isaiah 49:21
Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were

General references

Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.