Happy is the one who seizes your little ones and dashes them upon the rock.
Jeremiah 51:3 - Tree of Life Version Let the archer bend his bow at her. Let him rise up at her in his armor. Do not spare her young men. Destroy her whole 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 is the one who seizes your little ones and dashes them upon the rock.
Harness the horses and mount, O horsemen! Take your position, with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on armor!
Array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow. Shoot at her! Spare no arrows— for she has sinned against Adonai.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, against the inhabitants of Pekod. Put them to the sword and utterly destroy them” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “and do all that I commanded you.”
To the sword with all her bulls, going down to the slaughter! Oy to them! Their day has come— the time of their visitation.
Even if Babylon went up to heaven and even if she fortified the height of her stronghold, from Me destroyers will come to her.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“Say this,” declares Adonai. “The carcasses of men will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one gathering them.”
Outside the sword deals death, and inside terror— to both young men and young women, infants, with men of gray hair.
For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.