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Psalms 137:4
How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

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Psalms 137:4
How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

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Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:2
On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

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Psalms 137:5
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Psalms 137:6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Genesis 31:30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Numbers 10:30
He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

2 Samuel 19:37
Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

2 Samuel 23:15
David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

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Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

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Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

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Isaiah 26:1
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

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Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.


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