Psalm 137:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ How shall we sing the LORD's song In a strange land?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ How shall we sing The LORD's song in a strange land?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

Common English Bible

⁴ But how could we possibly sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ May all the kings of the earth confess to you, O Lord. For they have heard all the words of your mouth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.

Psalm 137:4 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

And in that day did the Lord, the LORD of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 49:21

Then shalt thou say in thine 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?

Hosea 9:4

They shall not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, 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 the LORD.

Amos 8:3

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