Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. New Living Translation Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks! English Standard Version Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! Berean Study Bible Blessed is he who seizes your infants 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 Bible Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Christian Standard Bible Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks. Contemporary English Version May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks! Good News Translation who take your babies and smash them against a rock. Holman Christian Standard Bible Happy is he who takes your little ones 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! 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Blessed is he who will seize your infants and will dash the rocks! GOD'S WORD® Translation Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock. JPS Tanakh 1917 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. New American Standard 1977 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock. Jubilee Bible 2000 Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes thy offspring against the stones. King James 2000 Bible Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones. American King James Version Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones. American Standard Version Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. Douay-Rheims Bible Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. Darby Bible Translation Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. English Revised Version Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock! Study Bible By the Rivers of Babylon…8O Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us. 9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. Cross References Mark 9:18 Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable." 2 Kings 8:12 "Why is my lord weeping?" asked Hazael. "Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites," Elisha replied. "You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women." Isaiah 13:16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished. 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. Nahum 3:10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains. Treasury of Scripture Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones. and dasheth Isaiah 13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; … Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses … Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: … the stones. Heb. the rock (9) Little ones.--Literally, sucklings. Stones.--Better, cliff or rock. For this feature of barbarous cruelty with which ancient war was cursed see 2Kings 8:12; Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 10:14, &c; and comp. Homer, Iliad, xxii. 63: "My bleeding infants dashed against the floor." Verse 9. - Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones; i.e. that brings on thee the worst calamities of war (see 2 Kings 8:12; Isaiah 12:16-18; Hosea 10:14; Hosea 13:16; Nahum 3:10).Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. That takes the infants from their mothers' breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a "rock", as the word (k) signifies; which, though it may seem a piece of cruelty, was but a just retaliation; the Babylonians having done the same to the Jewish children, and is foretold elsewhere should be done to theirs, Isaiah 13:16. Nor is this desired from a spirit of revenge, but for the glory of divine justice, and that such a generation of cruel creatures might be rooted out of the earth; see Revelation 2:2. Some allegorically understand this of crushing and mortifying the first motions of sin in the heart; but such a sense seems to have no place here. (k) "ad petram", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c. "ad repem", Cocceius. 137:5-9 What we love, we love to think of. Those that rejoice in God, for his sake make Jerusalem their joy. They stedfastly resolved to keep up this affection. When suffering, we should recollect with godly sorrow our forfeited mercies, and our sins by which we lost them. If temporal advantages ever render a profession, the worst calamity has befallen him. Far be it from us to avenge ourselves; we will leave it to Him who has said, Vengeance is mine. Those that are glad at calamities, especially at the calamities of Jerusalem, shall not go unpunished. We cannot pray for promised success to the church of God without looking to, though we do not utter a prayer for, the ruin of her enemies. But let us call to mind to whose grace and finished salvation alone it is, that we have any hopes of being brought home to the heavenly Jerusalem. 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