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NASB | Psalm 137:9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 137:9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock. |
Bible Question: Any thoughts on how to interpret this "blessing" from Psalm 137? |
Bible Answer: 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 |