“ How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strangeb land? ”
How shall we sing the Lord’s song - The song designed to celebrate his praise; that is, appropriate to the worship of Yahweh. In a strange land - Far from our home; far from the temple; exile...
CXXXVII. The Bitter Memory of Babylon. The vivid picture of the exiles in their home-sickness, the mockery of their foreign masters, their love for Zion, the mention of Edom, and the savage thirst...
the LORD'S. Hebrew. Jehovah. s. App-4. strange . foreigner's.
4. How shall we sing, etc. The Psalmist puts a lofty and magnanimous answer into the mouth of the Lord’s people to their insolent reproach, which is this, that they abstained from their songs...
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? How shall we sing the Lord's song - איך נשיר eich! nashir; O, we sing! Who does not hear the deep sigh in the strongly guttural sound of the origi...
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? To do so would be virtually to renounce Zion, our native city and spiritual home. How...
A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with ( a ) a strong expression of patriotism, and ( b ) an outburst of hatred against the enemies of Jerusalem. Probably written soon...
Strange land. — The feeling expressed in this question is too natural to need any such explanation as that it was contrary to the Law to sing a sacred song in a strange land. Nehemiah’s answer ( Ne...
Psalms 137:1-9 THE captivity is past, as the tenses in Psalms 137:1-3 show, and as is manifest from the very fact that its miseries have become themes for a psalm. Grief must be somewhat removed...
Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat beside the Euphrates. They had brought their harps with...
This is a song of memory. From the midst of the circumstances of restoration the singer looks back to days of captivity and sorrow. The picture is graphic. Babylon was far from their own land, and fa...
God's people are still subject to insult; but it is impossible to feel warmth at all times in the Lord's service where scoffers are. Sometimes, indeed, a holy indignation, and a zeal for Jesus, give...
NO HEART TO SING ‘How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’ Psalms 137:4 I. The condition of the exiles in their new abode was attended with much less of hardship than the mentio...
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?] This is the answer returned by the Jews to the above request or demand; it may be, particularly, by the Levites, whose business it was to sing...
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? Ver. 4. Shall we sing the Lord's song? &c.] No; for that were to profane holy things; and as Nazianzen speaketh, κωμωδιαν τα μυστηρια. And b...
How shall we sing the Lord's song Those sacred songs which are appropriated to the worship of the true God in his temple, and are appointed by him to be sung only to his honour and in his service;...
The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We...
The Lord's song; those songs which were appointed by God, and to be sung only to his honour and in his service. In a strange land ; when we are banished from our own temple and land, and amongst t...
INTRODUCTION “There can be no doubt whatever,” says Perowne, “as to the time when this Psalm was written. It expresses the feeling of an exile who has but just returned from the land of his captivit...
Psalms 137:4 Let us ask this question and ponder the answer to it in reference to our own poor efforts to awaken heart and voice to the utterance of the Lord's song, whether of sadness or joy, in...
Psalms 137:1-19 . By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. Babylon was full of canals and riv...
This psalm has no title, but it was evidently composed in Babylon; and it would seem from the latter part, only a little while before Cyrus took the city. It was probably composed by the prophet Hagg...
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept. The tears of memory and the cry for vengeance I. The tears of memory ( Psalms 137:1-6 ). 1. Their sorrow had reference to the loss...
EXPOSITION " THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides into two parts. First, we are given a picture of th...
Song of Grief of the Captive Jews. The unknown poet here records the deep grief and mourning of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity and includes a prayer for the destruction of their enemies,...
Amos 8:3 ; Ecclesiastes 3:4 ; Hosea 9:4 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 49:21 ; Lamentations 5:14 ; Lamentations 5:15
The Lord's — Those songs which were appointed by God to be sung only in his service.