 | E. W. Bullinger - Religion - 772 pages
...history : " O daughter of Babylon, Who art to be destroyed. Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thon hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock " (RV.). These words, so contrary to Christian sentiment, will be perfectly correct in the next... | |
 | Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish - Religion - 2004 - 420 pages
...Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (Psalm 137:8, 9). Dr. Smithurst did not provide an adequate explanation for these passages which demonstrate... | |
 | Richard J. Mouw - Music - 2004 - 312 pages
...Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be. that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Timothy Dwight, SM Third Part: "Love to the Church" 1 I love thy kingdom. Lord, The house of thy abode,... | |
 | Annalise E. Acorn - Education - 2004 - 226 pages
...tradition of praying for assistance in vengeance. See, for example, Psalm 137:9, King James Bible: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Or see Queen Margaret's speech in Shakespeare's Richard II1: "Dear God I pray that I may live and say... | |
 | Hermann Rasche, Christiane Schönfeld - German literature - 2004 - 500 pages
...destroyed": Heil dem Manne, dessen Hand Deine junge Brut ergreifet Und zerschmettert an der Felswand. (6:136) "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against a rock" (Ps. 137:9). This shocking verse is here adapted to express the anger of the Jewish people... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - Religion - 2005 - 702 pages
...Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy (shall he be), that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 137:9 Happy (shall he be), that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Chapter 138 David praises the loving kindness and truth of the Lord and worships in the temple. A Psalm... | |
 | Edward White - 2005 - 62 pages
...to curse the Babylonians who destroyed the city of Jerusalem. And if that was not enough they said, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." —Psalm 137:8-9 The situation that the exiled people of God found themselves in could have been avoided.... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...Children enter the psalm at its close, in the brutal imagination of a horrible revenge on the captors: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." The dreamer's misery at the moment his children are being saved in the dream at the Porta Romana is... | |
 | Mireille Hadas-Lebel - Art - 2006 - 610 pages
...the action of Rome: Daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that...taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones! A Midrash variant adds: Three hundred children were found strung up on one branch. (LmR 5, 13)70 Alongside... | |
 | Erika Langmuir - Art - 2006 - 284 pages
...lithograph, 1942 remembered Zion.' It ends with a vow of vengeance against the 'daughter of Babylon': 'Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.' The Authorized, Version's 'happy' misses the play on words of the Vulgate's Latin 'hcattis', which... | |
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O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. 
