Isaiah 13:15

For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

In Context

14And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

16And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:9But now these two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee, for thy sorcery, for the strength of thine enchantments,

Jeremiah 51:3because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

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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