Psalms 137:9 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 137:9

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Isaiah 13:16
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

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Happy shall those be that do it; for they are fulfilling God's counsels; and therefore he calls Cyrus, who did it, his servant, his shepherd, his anointed ( Isa. xliv. 1 ), and the soldiers that were employed in it his sanctified ones, Isa. xiii. They are making way for the enlargement of God's Israel, and happy are those who are in any way serviceable to that.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They remembered Zion's former glory and the satisfaction they had had in Zion's courts, Lam. i. Jerusalem remembered, in the days of her misery, all her pleasant things which she had in the days of old, Ps. xlii. They remembered Zion's present desolations, and favoured the dust thereof, which was a good sign that the time for God to favour it was not far off, Ps. cii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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PSA 137:92KI 8:12 HOS 13:16
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:92KI 8:12 NAH 3:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:9HOS 13:16 2KI 15:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:9HOS 13:16 ISA 13:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:9HOS 13:16 PSA 137:8-9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:9HOS 13:16 2KI 8:12
PSA 137:92KI 8:12 2KI 13:3
PSA 137:92KI 8:12 2KI 12:17

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