Psalms 137:9
How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
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- Isa 13:16 : 16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.
- Hos 13:16 : 16 (14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground– their pregnant women will be ripped open.
- 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 Hazael asked,“Why are you crying, my master?” He replied,“Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women.”
- Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
- Hos 10:14 : 14 Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
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- Ps 137:7-82 verses82%
7Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”
8O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
- Ps 127:3-53 verses73%
3Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
4Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.
5How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.
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16Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.
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15How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!
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9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
- Ps 128:5-62 verses70%
5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,
6and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!
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18Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.
- Ps 109:9-135 verses70%
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
11May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!
12May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!
13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
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10Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
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21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
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2You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
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13For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.
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11Bless, O LORD, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.
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14Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
- Ps 149:7-82 verses68%
7in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.
8They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,
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2From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.
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40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
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25May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
- Ps 58:9-102 verses68%
9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
10The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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12They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.
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8A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.
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24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!
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57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
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8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!
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5O Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.
- Isa 57:5-62 verses67%
5you who inflame your lusts among the oaks and under every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
6Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things how can I relent from judgment?
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18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
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12Then our sons will be like plants, that quickly grow to full size. Our daughters will be like corner pillars, carved like those in a palace.
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4The LORD says,“I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.
- Ps 21:9-102 verses67%
9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.
10You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.
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14And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ says the LORD.”
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21Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”
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5O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
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9He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD!
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11Mount Zion rejoices; the towns of Judah are happy, because of your acts of judgment.
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11and‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
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66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD’s heaven.
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12Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!