Isaiah 13:16

And their babes shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes: spoiled shall be their houses, and their wives ravished.

Leeser Tanakh

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 joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes; who will not regard silver, and who will not delight in gold.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Happy he, that seizeth and dasheth thy babes against the rock.

Lamentations 5:11Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.

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