OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 137:8

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Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

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Verse 8. Repay. Taking me under his protection, (Saint John Chrysostom) he will punish my oppressors; or he has done it already. Calmet.—Hands. Rescue me from the oppression of my temporal and spiritual enemies. Bert.

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