Psalm 137:8
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New International Version (©1984)
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You destructive people of Babylon, blessed is the one who pays you back with the same treatment you gave us.

King James Bible
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

American King James Version
O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

American Standard Version
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

Bible in Basic English
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

Darby Bible Translation
Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

English Revised Version
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Webster's Bible Translation
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

World English Bible
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.

Young's Literal Translation
O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

Geneva Study Bible

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Wesley's Notes

137:8 Happy - As being God's instrument to vindicate his honour, and execute his just judgments.

King James Translators' Notes

destroyed: Heb. wasted

rewardeth...: Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. daughter of Babylon-the people (Ps 9:13). Their destruction had been abundantly foretold (Isa 13:14; Jer 51:23). For the terribleness of that destruction, God's righteous judgment, and not the passions of the chafed Israelites, was responsible.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Isaiah 13:1 The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
Isaiah 47:1 "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.
Jeremiah 25:12 'Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 50:1 The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
Jeremiah 50:15 "Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.
Jeremiah 51:1 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai The spirit of a destroyer.
Jeremiah 51:24 "But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; And, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.
Revelation 18:6 "Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. (NASB ©1995)

Babylon Blessed Daughter Destroyed Destruction Devastated Doomed Happiness Happy Laid Meted Recompense Rendereth Repaid Repayeth Repays Requites Rewardeth Rewards Served Waste

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

daughter Isa 47:1-5 Jer 50:41 52:33 Zec 2:7

who art Isa 13:1 14:4-24 21:1 47:1 Jer 25:12-14 50:1 51:1 Re 14:8-11 17:1 18:6

destroyed. Heb. wasted
happy Ps 149:6-9 Isa 13:3-5 44:28 Re 17:5,6,14 18:6,20

rewardeth. etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst unto us Jer 50:15-29 Re 18:6

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