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Hold on the exile's grief and hardened expression beside a distant Babylonian wall; retain the explicit retaliatory wish in POB text without staging infant violence.
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Psalms 137:8-9

Blessed is the one who seizes and dashes your little

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down · Psalms 137

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8Daughter of Babylon, devastated one, blessed is the one who pays you back for what you did to us.

9Blessed is the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

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