Psalms 137:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Happy shall he be who takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

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  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished.
  • Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has 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 open.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" And he answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will slay with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child."
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore a tumult shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces on her children.

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    16Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished.

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