Imagine how the exiled Israelites must have felt in Babylon. Their captors jeered: “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion. ”
(‏ مز ١٤٧ :‏ ٢‏ )‏ فَهُوَ شَكَرَ يَهْوَهَ وَسَبَّحَهُ لِأَنَّهُ سَمَحَ لِشَعْبِهِ أَنْ يَعُودُوا إِلَى أَرْضِهِمْ وَيَعْبُدُوهُ هُنَاكَ .‏