Isaiah 13:16

And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, || Their houses are spoiled, and their wives lain with.

Literal 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

15Everyone who is found is thrust through, || And everyone who is added falls by sword.

17Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, || Who do not esteem silver, || And gold—they do not delight in it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9O the blessedness of him who seizes, and has dashed your sucklings on the rock!

Lamentations 5:11Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah.

Nahum 3:10Even she becomes an exile, || She has gone into captivity, || Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces || At the top of all out-places, || And for her honored ones they cast a lot, || And all her great ones have been 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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