Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will slaughter their young men; they will show no mercy to babies; they will have no pity on children.
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17I'm going to get the Medes to attack them, people who don't care about silver or gold.
Cross References
2 Kings 8:12“Why are you crying, my lord?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil things you are going to do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set their fortresses on fire, kill their young men with the sword, dash to pieces their little ones, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Isaiah 13:16Their little children will be dashed to pieces as they watch, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.
Ezekiel 9:10But I certainly won't be kind to them or have mercy on them. I will make sure they suffer the consequences of what they've done.”
Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria will have to bear the consequences of their guilt, because they rebelled against their God. They will be slaughtered by the sword; their children will be dashed to the ground; their pregnant women will be ripped open.
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 →