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Captors demand entertainment while the musicians hold their silence on foreign soil.
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Psalms 137:3-4

How can we sing the song of Yahweh on foreign

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down · Psalms 137

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3For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors for gladness: “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”

4How can we sing the song of Yahweh on foreign soil?

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