# Biblical trash talking

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**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-trash-talking/1022404 "2025-08-22T20:43:36Z")\
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The closing verses of Psalm 137 are fairly infamous.

I mean, it starts so somber…

> 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept  
> when we remembered Zion.

And then it’s all like, you know what we need? A genocide!

> 8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,  
> happy is the one who repays you  
> according to what you have done to us.  
> 9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants  
> and dashes them against the rocks.

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