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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: Blessed be the Lord for he is just and righteous. Isaiah 13 11And I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil 16Their infants also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. This whole prophecy is generally conceded to have been written well over a century (170 years, according to archbishop James Ussher) before Babylon's downfall, when the circumstances necessary for its fulfillment seemed most improbable--but it has been literally fulfilled in detail. Human keenness of foresight could not possibly have foreseen that great Babylon would be wiped from the face of the earth (Isa. 13:19), become ruins infested by wild animals (Isa. 13:21, 22), be feared because of superstition by the Arabs (Isa. 13:20)--with only a small village near the area to mark the place where, since the days of Nimrod, mighty kings had exalted themselves above the God of heaven. Various conquerors during the centuries contributed to Babylon's downfall until, by the first century B.C., it was as utterly and hopelessly destroyed as Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 13:19). Jeremiah 25 12Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.(3) 13And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. From Bible Gateway |