How can we sing the LORD's songIt appears this psalm was written during the Diaspora, after Israel and Judah had been conquered and their people carried off. This was the lowest point for Jewish hope in the Old Testament, possibly the lowest ever, except for the Holocaust.
In a foreign land?
In a time when Jews had to worship at a specific location (the Temple in Jerusalem), how can they worship elsewhere? Personally, I see this as another indicator that the Jews didn't have their doctrine quite right, given that God had now placed them in an impossible position. Today as Christians, we don't have that problem, as we can worship wherever and whenever we choose.
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