Psalm 137:9
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137:9How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!11
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- 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
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Happy is the one who takes your babies
and smashes them against the rocks!
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Happy shall be he who seizes
and smashes your children
against the rock.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Happy shall he be, that taketh
And dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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