Isaiah 13:16

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

15For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

17Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

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Cross References

Lamentations 5:11They humbled the women in Zion, 1 The virgins in the cities of Judah. 1

Nahum 3:10Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be 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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