PSALM 137:4

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?”

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Psalm 137:4 Translation & Meaning

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How אֵ֗יךְ How? or how!; also where How
shall we sing נָשִׁ֥יר To sing sing
the Lord's יְהוָ֑ה (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God Lords
song שִׁיר A song; abstractly, singing song
in עַ֝֗ל Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications in
a strange נֵכָֽר׃ Foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom strange
land? אַדְמַ֥ת Soil (from its general redness) land

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  • 2  We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

  • 3  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

  • 4  How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

  • 5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

  • 6  If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.



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