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1 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | Just Read Mark | 110912 | ||
Any thoughts on how to interpret this "blessing" from Psalm 137? | ||||||
2 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | srbaegon | 110940 | ||
Hello Just Read Mark, John Gill writes the following excellent commentary on this: "That takes the infants from their mothers’ breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a rock; which, though it may seem a piece of cruelty, was but a just retaliation; the Babylonians having done the same to the Jewish children, and is foretold elsewhere should be done to theirs (Isa 13:16). Nor is this desired from a spirit of revenge, but for the glory of divine justice, and that such a generation of cruel creatures might be rooted out of the earth; see Rev 2:2,3. Some allegorically understand this of crushing and mortifying the first motions of sin in the heart; but such a sense seems to have no place here." Steve |
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3 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | Just Read Mark | 111032 | ||
Hi srbaegon --- Thanks for the commentary. I guess the question is, what is "just retaliation." For another take on it, see my note below. I would be interested in your response. JRM. |
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4 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | srbaegon | 111061 | ||
Hello JRM, My answer would be that God take vengeance on the atrocities done against His people. This is what we find in the imprecatory sections of Scripture. Steve |
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