How shall we sing the Lord's song....

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors' mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."…

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Psalm 137

A headstone in the Jewish cemetery, Newington, Edinburgh.

Of course, while in Babylon far from the Temple where - they believed - Yahweh lived, the Jews sowed the seeds of a new kind of worship - synagogue. Round the corner from here is the Edinburgh Synagogue. And the Lord's song could be sung - even in the foreignness of the Diaspora. As Snoopy, the famous beagle, once said - "the theological implications alone were staggering."