Isaiah 13:18
But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:
Cross References
2 Kings 8:12And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities then wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women.
Isaiah 13:16Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.
Ezekiel 9:10Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.
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 →