Psalm 137:9 “Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rock…”

Psalm 137:9

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

World English Bible

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

American Standard Version

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Geneva Bible 1599

Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

Darby Translation

Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

Young's Literal Translation

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

Bible in Basic English

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

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Cross references

“and dasheth”

Isaiah 13:16 Hosea 13:16 Hosea 10:14

Isaiah 13:16 · BSB

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Hosea 13:16 · BSB

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Hosea 10:14 · BSB

the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

Also

Nahum 3:10 2 Kings 8:12

Nahum 3:10 · BSB

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

2 Kings 8:12 · BSB

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to piec…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

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