Isaiah 13:16

Their little children will be dashed to pieces as they watch, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.

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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

15Anyone who is captured will be stabbed to death; anyone who is caught will be killed by the sword.

17I'm going to get the Medes to attack them, people who don't care about silver or gold.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Happy is the one who grabs your children and smashes them against the rocks!

Lamentations 5:11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

Nahum 3:10Yet its people were also taken away into exile, into captivity. Their babies were dashed to pieces in every street. Their nobles were bound in chains and taken away as servants, chosen by lot.

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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