Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.
New American Standard Bible
Against the rock.
King James Version
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Holman Bible
and dashes them against the rocks.
International Standard Version
How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!
A Conservative Version
Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.
American Standard Version
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.
Amplified
How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.
Bible in Basic English
Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
Darby Translation
Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
Julia Smith Translation
Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock.
King James 2000
Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Happy [shall be he] who seizes and smashes your children against the rock.
Modern King James verseion
Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children, and throweth them against the stones.
NET Bible
How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
New Heart English Bible
Blessed shall he be who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
Webster
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
World English Bible
Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.
Youngs Literal Translation
O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
Topics
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
8 O ruined daughter of Babylon, - how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us! 9 How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16
And, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, before their eyes, - Plundered shall be, their houses, and their wives ravished.
2 Kings 8:12
Then said Hazael, Why, is my lord, weeping? And he said - Because I know what thou wilt do to the sons of Israel, by way of harm - Their fortresses, thou wilt set on fire, and, their choice young men, with the sword, thou wilt slay, and, their children, thou wilt dash in pieces, and, their women with child, thou wilt rip up.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria, shall be held guilty, for she hath rebelled against her God, By the sword, shall they fall, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, and, his women with child, shall be ripped up.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall there arise a tumult among thy peoples, and, all thy fortresses, shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel, in the day of battle, - the mother, upon her children, dashed to the ground.
Nahum 3:10
Yet, she, was given up to exile, she went into captivity, even her babes, were dashed to the ground, at the head of all the streets, - and, for her honourable men, cast they lots, and, all her great men, were bound together in chains.