Continuing with the response to the commenter who claims that God is described as killing babies in the Bible. (See the "Jews Kill Children" post.)

The claim is that Psalm 137:9 says that God kills babies. So let's look at Psalm 137 verse 8 and 9:

"O Daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, how blessed will be the one who repays you with the recompense with which you have repaid us. How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones [infants] against the rock."

The question is, do these verses indicate that God kills babies?

This Psalm was written after Israel’s return from Babylon. It is describing what happened when Babylon was conquered by the Medes. This was predicted in a prophecy is Isaiah 13:16:

"Their little children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished."

This prophecy is repeated in Isaiah 13:18 where it states that the conquerors of Babylon "will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb."

The prophecy talks more about the destruction of Babylon than just the killing of infants, but the question about these verses has to do with whether or not they say that God kills babies. That is why I’ve just quoted the parts of scripture that mention this.

No, this scripture does not say that God kills babies. It says that the Medes killed Babylonian infants. It is describing what actually happened… the brutality of the Medes as they conquered Babylon. There is nothing more brutal than the killing of infants, and that is mentioned here to show how merciless the Medes were.

Why does the Psalmist say the Medes are blessed? Is it because they kill babies? No. It is because they are the destroyers of Babylon. That is the context for these verses, and that is what these verses are all about. There is nothing here that says God kills babies or approves of the killing of babies. It is purely descriptive of the depravity of mankind.