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[a]Blessed the one who seizes your children
    and smashes them against the rock.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 137:9 Blessed the one who seizes your children and smashes them against the rock: the children represent the future generations, and so must be destroyed if the enemy is truly to be eradicated.

Happy is the one who seizes your infants
    and dashes them(A) against the rocks.

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Ammon

13 Thus says the Lord:

For three crimes of the Ammonites, and now four—
    I will not take it back—
Because they ripped open pregnant women in Gilead,(A)
    in order to extend their territory,

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13 This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Ammon,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he ripped open the pregnant women(B) of Gilead
    in order to extend his borders,

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