Psalm 137:7-9 KJV,NLT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 137:7-9

The pious Jews in Babylon, having afflicted themselves with the thoughts of the ruins of Jerusalem, here please themselves with the prospect of the ruin of her impenitent implacable enemies; but this not from a spirit of revenge, but from a holy zeal for the glory of God and the honour of his kingdom. I. The Edomites will certainly be reckoned with, and all others that were accessaries to the destruction of Jerusalem, that were aiding and abetting, that helped forward the affliction (Zech.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:7

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem ,.... Of her visitation, calamity, and destruction, how they behaved then, and them for it; who, though the children of Esau and brethren of the Jews, as well as their neighbours, yet hated them; the old grudge of their father, because of the birthright and blessing, as well as the old enmity of the serpent, continuing in them; and who rejoiced at their ruin, helped forward their affliction, and were assistants to the Babylonians... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed ,.... By the determinate counsel and decree of God, and according to divine predictions; see Jeremiah 50:1 ; so mystical Babylon, antichrist, and the man of sin, who therefore is called the son of perdition, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ; because appointed to destruction, and shall certainly go into it, Revelation 17:8 ; or "O thou destroyer", as the Targum, which paraphrases it thus, "Gabriel, the prince of Zion, said to the Babylonish nation... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:9

Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. That takes the infants from their mothers' breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a "rock", as the word F11 אל סלע "ad petram", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; "ad repem", Cocceius. signifies; which, though it may seem a piece of cruelty, was but a just retaliation; the Babylonians having done the same to the Jewish children, and is foretold elsewhere should be done to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:7

Remember - the children of Edom - It appears from Jeremiah 12:6 ; Jeremiah 25:14 ; Lamentations 4:21 , Lamentations 4:22 ; Ezekiel 25:12 ; Obadiah 1:11-14 ; that the Idumeans joined the army of Nebuchadnezzar against their brethren the Jews; and that they were main instruments in rasing the walls of Jerusalem even to the ground. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed - Or, O thou daughter of Babylon the destroyer, or, who art to be ruined. In being reduced under the empire of the Persians, Babylon was already greatly humbled and brought low from what it was in the days of Nebuchadnezzar; but it was afterwards so totally ruined that not a vestige of it remains. After its capture by Cyrus, A.M. 3468, it could never be considered a capital city; but it appeared to follow the fortunes of its various conquerors... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:9

Happy - that taketh and dasheth thy little ones - That is, So oppressive hast thou been to all under thy domination, as to become universally hated and detested; so that those who may have the last hand in thy destruction, and the total extermination of thy inhabitants, shall be reputed happy - shall be celebrated and extolled as those who have rid the world of a curse so grievous. These prophetic declarations contain no excitement to any person or persons to commit acts of cruelty and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:7

Verse 7 7.Remember, O Jehovah! the children of Edom Vengeance was to be executed upon the other neighboring nations which had conspired to destroy Jerusalem, so that they are all doubtless included here under the children of Edom, who are specified, a parr, for the whole, either because they showed more hatred and cruelty than the rest, or that theirs were not so easily borne, considering that they were brethren, and of one blood, being the posterity of Esau, and that the Israelites had, by... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:8

Verse 8 8.O daughter of Babylon (187) laid waste! The Psalmist discerns the coming judgment of God, though not yet apparent, by the eye of faith, as the Apostle well calls faith “the beholding of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1.) Incredible as it might appear that any calamity should overtake so mighty an empire as Babylon then was, and impregnable as it was generally considered to be, he sees in the glass of the Word its destruction and overthrow. He calls upon all God’s people to do the same,... read more

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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 137:7-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 137:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 137:1-9

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