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Context is important. It's a song of imagined - and not executed - revenge. The writer is wishing that what happened to their kids also happened to the invaders kids. The Babylonians dashed Jewish kids against rocks, and the Jews didn't respond in kind - couldn't in fact, because the Law forbade it.
The thing is, most people that will cite the bible as an argument are already taking shit out of their context, so at this point it's just fair game.
Context seems to be largely ignored when your argument sounds so great