O daughter of Babylon, you [a](A)devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who (B)repays you
With [b]the recompense with which you have repaid us.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:8 Or devastator
  2. Psalm 137:8 Lit your recompense

42 “They (A)seize their bow and javelin;
They are (B)cruel and have no mercy.
Their (C)voice roars like the sea;
And they ride on (D)horses,
(E)Marshalled like a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

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33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The daughter of Babylon is like a (A)threshing floor
At the time [a]it is stamped firm;
Yet in a little while the time of (B)harvest will come for her.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:33 Lit of treading it

“Ho, Zion! (A)Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”

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