“How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?”
Psalms 137:4 (KJV) |
Psalms 137:4
From Psalms 137, in the Book of Psalms (Old Testament).
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.