the LORD'S. Hebrew. Jehovah. s. App-4.
strange. foreigner's.
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 lan...
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...
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, w...
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 dee...
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 reno...
A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with ( a ) a strong expression of patriotism, and ( b ) an outburst of hatred again...
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 sac...
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...
Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...
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 gr...
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, indee...
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 a...
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, particular...
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...
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...
The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat do...
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 ba...
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 h...
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...
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 m...
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...
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-...
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? The Lord’s song in a strange land The temple music had a reputation even among the heathen...
EXPOSITION " THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides i...
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 inclu...
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Their sacred songs were, in their minds, inseparably connected with the worship of the Temple, t...
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.
4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strangeb land?