Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 137:8 - 137:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 137:8 - 137:8


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Daughter of Babylon; by which he understands the city and empire of Babylon, and the people thereof.



Who art to be destroyed; who art by God’s righteous and irrevocable sentence devoted to certain destruction.



Happy shall he be; as being God’s instrument to vindicate his honour, and execute his just judgments, and fulfil his counsel and word; which Cyrus was to his own great glory and advantage, as appears both from sacred and profane history.



That rewardeth thee as thou hast served us; that shall use thee with equal cruelty.