Isaiah 13:16

And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

In Context

15All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.

17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

Lamentations 5:11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

Nahum 3:10She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.

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 →

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