Psalm 137:8-9

O Babylon, you will be destroyed.

    Happy is the one who pays you back

    for what you have done to us.

Happy is the one who takes your babies

    and smashes them against the rocks! 

     

O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.

Isaiah 13:1-3

    Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:

"Raise a signal flag on a bare hilltop.

    Call up an army against Babylon.

Wave your hand to encourage them

    as they march into the palaces of the high and mighty.

I, the LORD, have dedicated these soldiers for this task.

    Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger,

    and they will rejoice when I am exalted."  (see all Isaiah 13)

Isaiah 47:10-11  

"You felt secure in your wickedness.

    'No one sees me,' you said.

But your 'wisdom' and 'knowledge' have led you astray,

    and you said, 'I am the only one, and there is no other.'

So disaster will overtake you,

    and you won't be able to charm it away.

Calamity will fall upon you,

    and you won't be able to buy your way out.

A catastrophe will strike you suddenly,

    one for which you are not prepared.  (see all Isaiah 47)

Jeremiah 25:12-14  

"Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins," says the LORD. "I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever. I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book--all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations. Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people."  (see all Jeremiah 25)

 

Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!  

2 Kings 8:11-12  

Elisha stared at Hazael with a fixed gaze until Hazael became uneasy. Then the man of God started weeping.

    "What's the matter, my lord?" Hazael asked him.

    Elisha replied, "I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open pregnant women!"  

(see 2 Kings 8:7-15)

Luke 19:43-44  

"Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you."  

(see Luke 19:41-44) 

     

(parentheses are mine)

 

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