مزامير 137:8

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daughter: Isaiah 47:1-5, Jeremiah 50:42, Jeremiah 51:33, Zechariah 2:7

who art: Isaiah 13:1-22, Isaiah 14:4-24, Isaiah 21:1, Isaiah 47:1, Jeremiah 25:12-14, Jeremiah 50:1 - Jeremiah 51:64, Revelation 14:8-11, Revelation 17:1-18, Revelation 18:6

destroyed: Heb. wasted

happy: Psalms 149:6-9, Isaiah 13:3-5, Isaiah 44:28, Revelation 17:5, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 18:6, Revelation 18:20

rewardeth: etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst unto us, Jeremiah 50:15-29, Revelation 18:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:15 - General Joshua 6:21 - utterly 2 Kings 8:12 - dash 2 Kings 19:21 - the daughter Ezra 6:12 - destroy Esther 8:11 - to destroy Psalms 48:11 - because Psalms 54:5 - reward Psalms 87:4 - Babylon Psalms 109:12 - favour Psalms 149:7 - General Psalms 149:9 - to execute Isaiah 13:16 - children Isaiah 14:20 - the seed Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Jeremiah 25:14 - I Jeremiah 27:7 - until Jeremiah 30:16 - General Jeremiah 46:24 - daughter Jeremiah 50:29 - recompense Jeremiah 51:24 - General Jeremiah 51:35 - The violence Jeremiah 51:49 - As Babylon Jeremiah 51:56 - the Lord Lamentations 1:21 - they shall Hosea 13:16 - their infants Obadiah 1:15 - as Micah 7:10 - she that Nahum 3:10 - her young Habakkuk 2:8 - the violence Habakkuk 2:17 - because Matthew 7:2 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed,.... By the determinate counsel and decree of God, and according to divine predictions; see Jeremiah 50:1; so mystical Babylon, antichrist, and the man of sin, who therefore is called the son of perdition, 2 Thessalonians 2:3; because appointed to destruction, and shall certainly go into it,

Revelation 17:8; or "O thou destroyer", as the Targum, which paraphrases it thus,

"Gabriel, the prince of Zion, said to the Babylonish nation that spoileth or destroyeth;''

which is true of literal Babylon, called the destroying mountain,

Jeremiah 51:25; and of mystical Babylon, the destroyer both of the bodies and souls of men, Revelation 11:18;

happy [shall he be] that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us; meaning Darius the Mede, as Kimchi; or rather, or however who must be added, Cyrus the Persian, as R. Obadiah; who were ordered by the Lord to retaliate her, and do as she had done to others, Jeremiah 50:15; and in so doing pronounced happy, being the Lord's shepherd, raised up in righteousness to perform his pleasure, Isaiah 44:28; and here wished success by the godly Jews. In like manner the Christian princes will reward mystical Babylon, and be the happy instruments of her ruin,

Revelation 18:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O daughter of Babylon - That is, Babylon itself; the city of Babylon. On the word “daughter” as thus used, see the notes at Isaiah 1:8.

Who art to be destroyed - Certainly to be destroyed; of whose destruction there are fixed and absolute prophecies. See the notes at Isaiah 13:19-22.

Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us - Margin, that recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us. Literally, “Happy shall he be who shall repay to thee the recompence which thou hast recompensed unto us.” The idea is, who shall repay thee for thy treatment of us; or, as we should say in common language, “Who shall pay thee back?” That is, he will be esteemed a fortunate man who is made the instrument of inflicting deserved punishment on a city so guilty and so cruel. He will acquire fame and honor by doing it; his name will be made known abroad and perpetuated among people. In fact, the name of Cyrus, who conquered Babylon, is among the names of the most celebrated of conquerors; and the manner in which he took Babylon and overthrew the government and kingdom, has given him a most eminent place among successful princes and conquerors.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 137:8. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed — Or, O thou daughter of Babylon the destroyer, or, who art to be ruined. In being reduced under the empire of the Persians, Babylon was already greatly humbled and brought low from what it was in the days of Nebuchadnezzar; but it was afterwards so totally ruined that not a vestige of it remains. After its capture by Cyrus, A.M. 3468, it could never be considered a capital city; but it appeared to follow the fortunes of its various conquerors till it was, as a city, finally destroyed.

Rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. — This was Cyrus, who was chosen of God to do this work, and is therefore called happy, as being God's agent in its destruction. Greater desolations were afterwards brought upon it by Darius Hystaspes, who took this city after it had revolted, and slaughtered the inhabitants, men and women, in a barbarous manner. Herod. lib. iii.