Hosea 10:14; Hosea 13:16; Isaiah 13:16
Happy shall he be that taketh ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, rock. This refers to what was not uncommon in ancient warfare, as it is now among savag...
(h) Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (h) He alludes to Isaiah's prophecy in ( Isaiah 13:16 ) promisi...
CXXXVII. The Bitter Memory of Babylon. The vivid picture of the exiles in their home-sickness, the mockery of their foreign masters, their love for...
little ones. The reference is to Isaiah 13:16-18 , which belongs to. Dispensation of Law and Judgment, and is not to be interpreted of the present...
Happy shall he be , that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Happy - that taketh and dasheth thy little ones - That is, So oppres...
O daughter of Babylon, &c.— O daughter of Babylon, the destroyed; [not Babylon the proud, as she now is; but Babylon the destroyed, for so...
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones agai...
A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with ( a ) a strong expression of patriotism, and ( b ) an outburst of hatred again...
Stones] RV 'rocks.' We cannot defend this terrible curse, but the cruelties of these Eastern oppressors were a provocation which fortunately we can...
Little ones. — Literally, sucklings. Stones. — Better, cliff or rock. For this feature of barbarous cruelty with which ancient war was cu...
Psalms 137:1-9 THE captivity is past, as the tenses in Psalms 137:1-3 show, and as is manifest from the very fact that its miseries have become...
Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...
This is a song of memory. From the midst of the circumstances of restoration the singer looks back to days of captivity and sorrow. The picture is gr...
These words are both a prayer and a prophecy. Edom is the seed of Esau, and as such there was, and is, and ever will be, the same hatred subsisting....
REFLECTIONS MY soul! canst thou behold the sorrows and miseries of Israel in their captivity, and not call to mind that more horrible vassalage and...
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...
Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Ver. 9. That taketh and dasheth thy little ones ] So at the destr...
O daughter of Babylon By which he understands the city and empire of Babylon, and the people thereof, who art to be destroyed Who by God's righte...
The Sorrows of Captivity. 7 Remember, O L ORD , the children of Edom...
As thou didst use our little ones. So this was but a just retaliation foretold here, as also Isaiah 13:6 .
INTRODUCTION “There can be no doubt whatever,” says Perowne, “as to the time when this Psalm was written. It expresses the feeling of an exile who h...
Psalms 137:1-19 . By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the m...
This psalm has no title, but it was evidently composed in Babylon; and it would seem from the latter part, only a little while before Cyrus took the...
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept. The tears of memory and the cry for vengeance I. The tears of memory ( Psalms 137:1-...
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem. Imprecation against the enemies of the Church 1. False brethren are the chief i...
EXPOSITION " THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides i...
Song of Grief of the Captive Jews. The unknown poet here records the deep grief and mourning of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity and inclu...
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.e