How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
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Interpretation
Their enemies had carried the Jews captive from their own land. To complete their woes, they insulted over them; they required of them mirth and a song.
Psalms 137:4 quoted in popular culture
- Rivers of Babylon
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Boney M.'s internationally successful recording · Boney M. · The song lifts its core lines from Psalm 137 and closes with the prayer from Psalm 19:14.
- Exile
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Wikiquote match for "by the rivers of Babylon" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "by the rivers of Babylon". Snippet: exile in a few years. Chaim Weizmann. Quoted by Project Herzl. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we
- Jerusalem
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Wikiquote match for "by the rivers of Babylon" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "by the rivers of Babylon". Snippet: Galatians 4:26-27 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Psalms 122:6 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we
- Psalms
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Wikiquote match for "by the rivers of Babylon" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "by the rivers of Babylon". Snippet: redeem Israel from all his iniquities. 130:7-8, King James Version By the rivers of Babylon , There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon