Isaiah 13:16

Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

15Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

17Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Lamentations 5:11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Nahum 3:10Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

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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