Psalm 137:8–9
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137:8O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated!9
How blessed will be the one who repays you
for what you dished out to us!10
137:9How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!11
Footnotes
- 9 Heb “O devastated daughter of Babylon.” The psalmist dramatically anticipates Babylon’s demise.
- 10 Heb “O the happiness of the one who repays you your wage which you paid to us.”
- 11 For other references to the wholesale slaughter of babies in the context of ancient Near Eastern warfare, see 2 Kgs 8:12; Isa 13:16; Hos 13:16; Nah 3:10.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
O Babylon, you will be destroyed.
Happy is the one who pays you back
for what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who takes your babies
and smashes them against the rocks!
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated,
happy shall be he who pays back to you
what you paid out to us.
Happy shall be he who seizes
and smashes your children
against the rock.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee
As thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh
And dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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