Psalms 137:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
  • Hos 13:16 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 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.
  • Nah 3:10 : 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.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.

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  • Ps 137:7-8
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    7 ¶ Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.

    8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

  • Ps 127:3-5
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    3 Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.

    4 As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.

    5 Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

  • 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

  • 15 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.

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    9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • Ps 128:5-6
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    5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

    6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon Israel.

  • 18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

  • Ps 109:9-13
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    9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

    11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

    12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

    13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

  • 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.

  • 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

  • 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.

  • 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

  • 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

  • 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;

    8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

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    2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

  • 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

  • 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • Ps 58:9-10
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    9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

    10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

  • 12 They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

  • 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • 5 ¶ The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

  • Isa 57:5-6
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    5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

    6 Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

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  • 12 That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace:

  • 4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

  • Ps 21:9-10
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    9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

    10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

  • 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • 5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

  • 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

  • 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

  • 11 And in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

  • 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.