Psalm 137:7-9

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Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day^(a) at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”^(A)

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Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.^(B)

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Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.^(C)

a. Psalm 137:7: The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

A. Psalm 137:7: Isaiah 34:5-6; Ezekiel 35:2; Obadiah 1:10-14

B. Psalm 137:8: Jeremiah 50:1-46; Jeremiah 51:1-64

C. Psalm 137:9: Isaiah 13:16; Nahum 3:10