Psalms 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
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9Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 21:1The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
Isaiah 47:1Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
Jeremiah 50:1The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Zechariah 2:7\2:3\And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,
Revelation 17:1And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 137:8-9
The Sorrows of Captivity. 7 Remember, O Lord , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. The pious Jews in Babylon, having afflicted themselves with the thoughts of the ruins of Jerusalem, here please themselves with the prospect of the ruin of her impenitent… Read the whole commentary →