Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
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In The King James Version
In Context
15All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword.
17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire gold.
Cross References
Lamentations 5:11They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Nahum 3:10Nevertheless, she has been led away with the transmigration into captivity. Her little ones have been dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they have cast lots over her celebrities, and all her elite have been fastened together in shackles.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →