Psalm 137:4

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

³ For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.

To the Lord

Jehovah

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance:

Isaiah 22:12

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 49:21

And thou saidst in thy heart, Who begat these to me, and I being bereaved and barren, an exile, and departing? and who caused these to grow? Behold, I was left alone; they, where were they?

Lamentations 5:14-15

Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.

Hosea 9:4

They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple wailed in that day, says the Lord Jehovah; many a corpse in every place being cast forth: silence.