Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
How shall we sing LORD's song in a foreign land?
New American Standard Bible
In a foreign land?
King James Version
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Holman Bible
on foreign soil?
International Standard Version
How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?
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?
Themes
Babylon » Grief of the jews in
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Interlinear
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Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
3 For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, [saying], Sing for us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing LORD's song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.
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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
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
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
Lamentations 5:14-15
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.