Psalm 137:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ O Daughter of Babylon [you devastator, you!], who [ought to be and] shall be destroyed, happy and blessed shall he be who requites you as you have served us. [Isa. 13:1-22; Jer. 25:12, 13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

Common English Bible

⁸ Daughter Babylon, you destroyer, a blessing on the one who pays you back the very deed you did to us!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The Lord will provide retribution on my behalf. O Lord, your mercy is forever. Do not disdain the works of your hands.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the work of thy hands.

Psalm 137:8 Cross References

Isaiah 21:1

Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.

Isaiah 44:28

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

Jeremiah 50:1

For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.

Jeremiah 50:29

7 A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.

Zechariah 2:7

And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Revelation 18:20

And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants; and you that fear him, little and great.

Revelation 18:6

5 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning.