Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing 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.

Holman 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!

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.

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 O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.


Cross References

Isaiah 13:16

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

2 Kings 8:12

And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

Hosea 10:14

So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

Nahum 3:10

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

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