 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1839 - 378 pages
...spare children. 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. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, and the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - History - 1839 - 494 pages
...Babylon, says.J " 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." § A marsh shall occupy its place, and an abyss shall swallow it up in everlasting forgetfulness."... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - Bible - 1839 - 590 pages
...thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee,asthou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh And dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Balaam indeed did not foresee the miseries to the Israelites would be reduced under the tyrant of Babylon,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 pages
...et supplicis arbor olivae. DASHING INFANTS AGAINST STONES COMMON IN SACKING TOWNS. PSALM cxxxvii. 9. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.] This was an instance of cruelty frequently exercised in the sacking of towns. Thus Isaiah (c. xiii.... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Religion - 1840 - 148 pages
...foundation thereof. 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." At the time of Judah's restoration from Babylon, no event occurred which can even be mistaken for the... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1840 - 428 pages
...in the cxxxviith psalm, pronounced against opposing Babylon: — " 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 !" II. We this day find Elisha again at Shumen. He there sits sociably in the company of the pious... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - Religion - 1840 - 876 pages
...foundation thereof. 0 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." At the time of Judah's restoration from Babylon, no event occurred which can even be mistaken for the... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1841 - 362 pages
...spare children. O daughter of Babylon,** who art to be destroyed, happy shall he be that rewardcth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that...taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, and the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God... | |
 | John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - Sermons, American - 1842 - 534 pages
...their liberation. " 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 a stone.") It was in a moment thus dark and gloomy, a moment in which Israel was prostrated in ruin... | |
 | Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - Theology - 1843 - 834 pages
...cxxxvii. 8, 9. — 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 322 ISAIAH i. 18. — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as... | |
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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. 
