Psalms 137:8
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
- KJV
- O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- WEB
- Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
- ASV
- O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.
- DARBY
- Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.
- BLB
- O Daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, blessed [is] he who repays to you, dealing with you as you have dealt with us!
- ÅB
- Babels datter, du ødelagte! Lykksalig er den som gir deg gjengjeld for den gjerning du gjorde mot oss.
- OTB
- Babels datter, du ødelagte,
Velsignet er den som gjengjelder deg
Med den gjengjeldelsen du har gitt oss. - B1930
- Babels datter, du ødelagte! Lykksalig er den som gir dig gjengjeld for den gjerning du gjorde mot oss.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 18:6
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:12–14
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:4–24
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
Read in contextRevelation 14:8–11
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
Read in contextIsaiah 21:1
This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Read in contextIsaiah 47:1–15
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:1–51:64
This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
Read in contextIsaiah 44:28
who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”
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