Isaiah 13:15

Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

Majority Standard Bible

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

14Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 51:3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

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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