Psalms 137:8

Babylon, despoiler, happy are those who pay you back for all you have done to us.

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In The King James Version

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

In Context

7Remember the Edomites, Lord, the day of Jerusalem’s fall, when they said, “Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.”

9Happy are they who seize and dash your children against the rocks.

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Cross References

Zechariah 2:7Up, escape to Zion, you who live in Babylon.

Revelation 17:1Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and spoke to me. ‘Come here,’ he said, ‘and I will show you the sentence passed on that infamous prostitute who is seated at the meeting of many 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 →

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