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Questions I have had about the Bible recently...
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RE: Questions I have had about the Bible recently...
(May 6, 2021 at 4:03 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: The most sensible answer I received is that "song of the Lord" is supposed to be a joyous song, and that it is inappropriate to sing it while in exile.

I guess that would be a gentle way of putting it.  The narration is pretty explicit. In 1-3 a pow train is described as hanging it's harps in sorrow along the banks of the river when their captors ask them to sing the songs of zion in 4.  From 5 onward the author says he'd rather forget how to play, how to speak, even.  He recalls the day that jerusalem fell and ends the psalm fantasizing about the deaths of his captors children.

They eventually move beyond those misgivings, historically speaking, as people in diaspora tend to do. They found a way to keep singing.
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RE: Questions I have had about the Bible recently... - by The Grand Nudger - May 6, 2021 at 4:27 pm

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