Daughter of Babylon, you [a](A)devastated one,
Blessed will be one who (B)repays you
With [b]the retribution with which you have repaid us.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:8 Or devastator
  2. Psalm 137:8 Lit your requital

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,(A)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.

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15 Raise your battle cry against her on every side!
She has (A)given [a]herself up, her towers have fallen,
Her (B)walls have been torn down.
For this is the (C)vengeance of the Lord:
Take vengeance on her;
(D)As she has done to others, so do to her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:15 Lit her hand

15 Shout(A) against her on every side!
    She surrenders, her towers fall,
    her walls(B) are torn down.
Since this is the vengeance(C) of the Lord,
    take vengeance on her;
    do to her(D) as she has done to others.(E)

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56 For the (A)destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,
And her warriors will be captured,
Their (B)bows shattered;
For the Lord is a God of (C)retribution,
He will fully repay.

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56 A destroyer(A) will come against Babylon;
    her warriors will be captured,
    and their bows will be broken.(B)
For the Lord is a God of retribution;
    he will repay(C) in full.

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[a]For after all (A)it is only right [b]for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

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  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Lit If indeed
  2. 2 Thessalonians 1:6 Or in the sight of

God is just:(A) He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you(B)

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