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Text -- Psalms 137:5-9 (NET)

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137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled! 137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy. 137:7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!” 137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us! 137:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Babylon a country of Babylon in lower Mesopotamia
 · Edomite resident(s) of the region of Edom
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin


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NET Notes: Psa 137:5 Heb “may my right hand forget.” In this case one must supply an object, such as “how to move.” The elliptical nature of the te...

NET Notes: Psa 137:6 Heb “if I do not lift up Jerusalem over the top of my joy.”

NET Notes: Psa 137:7 Heb “lay [it] bare, lay [it] bare.”

NET Notes: Psa 137:8 Heb “O the happiness of the one who repays you your wage which you paid to us.”

NET Notes: Psa 137:9 For other references to the wholesale slaughter of babies in the context of ancient Near Eastern warfare, see 2 Kgs 8:12; Isa 13:16; Hos 13:16; Nah 3:...

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