Psalms 137:7

WEB

Remember, Lord, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

KJV

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Commentary

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,.... Of her visitation, calamity, and destruction, how they behaved then, and them for it; who, though the children of Esau and brethren of the Jews, as well as thei r neighbours, yet hated them; the old grudge of their father, because of the birthright and blessing, as well as the old enmity of the serpent, continuing in them; and who rejoiced at their ruin, helped forward their affliction, and were assistants to the Babylonians in the plunder and destruction of them, Oba 1:11 . The Targum is, "Michael, the prince of Jerusalem, said, remember, O Lord, the people of Edom who destroyed Jerusalem.'' Many Jewish writers, as Aben Ezra observes, interpret this of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans: who said, rase it, rase it even to the foundation thereof: or "make it naked" or "bare (i) to the foundation"; pull down its walls, lay them level with the ground; root up the very foundation of them, and let nothing be left or seen but the bare naked ground; so spiteful and malicious were they. (i) "nudate", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.