Psalms 137:9 meaning and explanation

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Psalms 137:9, Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 137 is a lament sung by Judean exiles in Babylon after Jerusalem fell in 586 BC. The speaker has just called Babylon "doomed to destruction" and asked God to repay her as she had done to Zion.

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