Psalm 137:8–9
New International Reader’s Version (1998)Other versions
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8People of Babylon, you are sentenced to be destroyed.
Happy are those who pay you back
for what you have done to us.
9Happy are those who grab your babies
and smash them against the rocks.
Copyright 1998 International Bible Society
In other versions
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!
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
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.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.
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!
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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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