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


In Context

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: |Sing us one of the songs of Zion!|

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

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

6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psalm 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

137:4How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign 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 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?