Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.

New American Standard Bible

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.

King James Version

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

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.

The Emphasized Bible

How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁר 
'esher 
Usage: 45

shall he be, that taketh
אחז 
'achaz 
Usage: 66

and dasheth
נפץ 
Naphats 
Usage: 22

עלל עולל 
`owlel 
Usage: 21

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
9 Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.


Cross References

Isaiah 13:16

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.

2 Kings 8:12

and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their little ones to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will bear her guilt
because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.

Hosea 10:14

the roar of battle will rise against your people,
and all your fortifications will be demolished
in a day of war,
like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel.
Mothers will be dashed to pieces
along with their children.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity.
Her children were also dashed to pieces
at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains.

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