1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Psalms 136:8 | O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. Amos 9:2. | Daughter. Citizens. --- Miserable "plunderer," (Symmachus) or "ruined," (Aquila) or "which shalt be given up to plunder." (Theodoret) --- Cyrus reduced the city to a state of abjection, and it has since experienced other miseries, (Calmet) so that its situation is now unknown. (Haydock) --- Isaias (xiii.) foretold this destruction. (Worthington) |