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Psalms 137:4

Psalms chapter 137 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

Context

v.3For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

v.4This passage

v.5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 49:21

    Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

  • 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:

  • Hosea 9:4

    They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:4

    a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

  • Amos 8:3

    And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.

  • Lamentations 5:14

    The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.