John Gill Commentary Psalms 137:9

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock." — Psalms 137:9 (ASV)

Happy [shall he be] that takes and dashes your little ones
against the stones .
] That takes the infants from their mothers' breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a "rock", as the word ^F11 signifies; which, though it may seem a piece of cruelty, was but a just retaliation; the Babylonians having done the same to the Jewish children, and is foretold elsewhere should be done to theirs, (Isaiah 13:16) . Nor is this desired from a spirit of revenge, but for the glory of divine justice, and that such a generation of cruel creatures might be rooted out of the earth; see (Revelation 2:2Revelation 2:3) . Some allegorically understand this of crushing and mortifying the first motions of sin in the heart; but such a sense seems to have no place here.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F11: (elo la) "ad petram", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus "ad repem", Cocceius.