Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
How are we to sing the song of the LORD on 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?
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?
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
Home » Examples of love of » The jews in exile
Home » Love of » The jews in exile
Interlinear
Shiyr
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
3 for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!" 4 How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil? 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
Phrases
Names
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
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you'll ask in your heart, "Who bore these children for me, although I was childless and barren, and an exile and cast aside? Who brought these up? Look! For my part I was left all alone; but as for these, where have they come from?'
Lamentations 5:14-15
Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music.
Hosea 9:4
They won't present wine offerings to the LORD, nor will they please him. Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners everyone who eats them will become unclean; none of them will enter the Temple of the LORD.
Amos 8:3
At that time," declares the Lord GOD, "the temple songs will be wailing. Many bodies will accumulate everywhere.