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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Psalm chapter 137 verse 4.

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

Let me say that again.

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

So the context here, this is such a powerful verse. The context here is God's people in Babylonian

exile. The whole Psalm starts by the waters of Babylon. So they've been taken from their homes.

They've been taken from all their comforts. They've been taken from family. They've been taken

from Jerusalem, the center. taken from

Jerusalem, the center of worship life for the people of God,

from the temple where the glory of God

dwelled among his people.

They've been taken from there to Babylon.

It says by the waters of Babylon. There we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.

When we remembered Jerusalem, when we remembered, when we were in the promised land before

we were scattered into this foreign land and the whole Psalm is a longing to get back to normal in a very real sense.

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