Happy [shall he be] that taketh and dasheth thy 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
2:2 Revelation
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.