4How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?


In Context

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,

3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Psalms 137:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:4How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:4How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

137:4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?