⁸ Daughter of Babylon, you ^[a](A)devastated one,
Blessed will be one who ^(B)repays you
With ^[b]the retribution with which you have repaid us.
⁹ Blessed will be one who seizes and ^(C)dashes your children
Against the rock.

¹⁴ An uproar will arise among your people,
And all your ^(A)fortresses will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When ^(B)mothers were ^[a]slaughtered with their children.

¹⁰ Yet she ^(A)became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her ^(B)small children were smashed to pieces
^(C)At the head of every street;
They ^(D)cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with shackles.