 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1856 - 500 pages
...the fire of the divine altar. But what shall we say of the last verse, — " O daughter of Babylon, happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones " ? We can give but a few paragraphs to that element of the great controversy before us which involves... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1856 - 664 pages
...the head city of the kingdom of Satan, and of the enemies of the church of God . Psal. cxxxvii. 9, " Happy shall he be, that taketh, and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." What a particular and honorable notice is taken, in the records of God's word, of those that arose,... | |
 | Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1856 - 426 pages
...destroyed (or, "thou destroyer ") ; 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. V. 1. The foreign land was rich and fascinating.* Many had yielded to its fascination, and preferred... | |
 | Freeborn Garretson Hibbard - Bible - 1850 - 600 pages
...Babylon, a 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 ! 4 Heb. the head of my joy. > Isa. 18. 1, 6, Ac. and 47. 1. Jer. 23. 12. and 90. 2. * Hob. tnafo bare.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1856 - 416 pages
...where those are pronounced blessed who take vengeance upon an enemy ! ' Happy shall he be who rewardeth thee as thou hast served us ! Happy shall he be that taketh and dashcth thy little ones against the stones !' " In what manner, again, shall we vindicate those passages,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Nature - 1998 - 381 pages
...character: "O, daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed (or wasted), 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." To the utmost has this fearful prophecy been fulfilled: Babylon has been destroyed; the cruelties with... | |
 | Charles-Hubert Gervais - Music - 1998 - 90 pages
...rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9. Chœur Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet párvulos tuos ad petram. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Plate 1. F-Pn Rés. Vm1 176, page 1; actual size: 245 X 185 mm. (Courtesy Bibliothèque nationale de... | |
 | Roger F. Cook - Literary Collections - 1998 - 420 pages
...Babylon, who art thou 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. In Heine's poem the allusion to Psalm 137 belongs to part of the poet's reflections about his own sufferings.4... | |
 | Michael D. Goulder - Religion - 1998 - 354 pages
...daughter of Babylon, that art laid waste, 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 rock. The apparently straightforward text masks a series of problems. (1) Where does the speaker live?... | |
 | Anita Shapira - History - 1999 - 468 pages
...unashamed to dream the dream of the psalmist, "O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed, . . . happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones" (Psalms 137:8-9). Only during the talmudic period did the metaphor arise of Israel as a lamb among... | |
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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. 
