Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?
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?
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?
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil? 5 If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;
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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 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!