Psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.
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- Isa 13:16 : 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
- Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."
- 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 Hazael said, "Why do you weep, my lord?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, 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 head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
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- Ps 137:7-82 verses82%
7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
- Ps 127:3-53 verses73%
3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.
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16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
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15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. A praise psalm by David.
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9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
- Ps 128:5-62 verses70%
5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. A Song of Ascents.
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18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
- Ps 109:9-135 verses70%
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
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2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
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13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
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11 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again."
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14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
- Ps 149:7-82 verses68%
7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
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40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
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25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
- Ps 58:9-102 verses68%
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
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12 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
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8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
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24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
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57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
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8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
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5 The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
- Isa 57:5-62 verses67%
5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; you have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
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18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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4 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
- Ps 21:9-102 verses67%
9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
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14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
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21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
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5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
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9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
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11 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.
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11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"
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66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.