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What does Psalm 137 verse 9 mean?

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Psalm 137:9: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."

The psalms were written during a period of around two hundred years, from the time of the Babylonian Exile. By this stage, the Jews had ceased performing human sacrifices, so it can be certain that this passage is not about sacrificing one's children to God.

This Psalm was written at a time of great despair. Consider the first verse: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion [Jerusalem]." In the depths of despair and depression, the author was talking as if he would not want the children of the Jews to live and know of the great loss the Jews had suffered, and how they could no longer sing the LORD's song in a strange land. He was not literally advocating that the children be killed.

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