Isaiah 13:16

Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

American Standard Version

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 is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. Psalm 138 A [Psalm] of David.

Lamentations 5:11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Nahum 3:10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in 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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