Psalms 137:4

The Lord's — Those songs which were appointed by God to be sung only in his service.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the LORD'S. Hebrew. Jehovah. s. App-4. strange . foreigner's.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with ( a ) a strong expression of patriotism, and ( b ) an outburst of hatred again...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat do...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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-...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION " THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides i...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:3 ; Ecclesiastes 3:4 ; Hosea 9:4 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 49:21 ; Lamentations 5:14 ; Lamentations 5:15

⁴ How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strangeb land?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 137:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 137:4