Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
Jeremiah 51:3 - King James 2000 Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his armor: and spare you not her young men; destroy you utterly all her army. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. And spare not her young men; devote [to God] and utterly destroy her entire host. American Standard Version (1901) Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. Common English Bible Let the archers draw their bows; let them prepare their armor. Show no mercy to her young men; wipe out her entire company! Catholic Public Domain Version Let him who draws the bow, not draw his bow. And let him who wears armor, not rise up. Do not spare her young men. Destroy her entire military. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let not him that bendeth bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army. |
Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.
Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the armor.
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall plunderers come unto her, says the LORD.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.
The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.