Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Nahum 3:10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were 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 →