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How can we sing Yahweh`s song in a foreign land?
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Sorrow Silences Song
Commentators agree that the exiles' question is rooted in deep, authentic emotion. In the midst of profound grief and captivity, they found it impossible to sing songs of joy. As Albert Barnes notes, their hearts were too sad to sing, and to do so would have been a hollow act, completely out of sync with their suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How shall we sing the Lord’s song - The song designed to celebrate his praise; that is, appropriate to the worship of Yahweh.
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19th Century
Anglican
Strange land.— The feeling expressed in this question is too natural to need any such explanation as that it was contrary to the L…
Baptist
"No," they said, "if we were to make mirth for the Babylonians, we would be doing serious damage to Zion, and we would be traitors to Jerusalem"; s…
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16th Century
Protestant
How shall we sing, etc. The Psalmist puts a lofty and magnanimous answer into the mouths of the Lord’s people in response to their insolen…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
Their enemies had carried the Jews captive from their own land. To complete their woes, they mocked them; they demanded from them mirth and a song.…
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