Isaiah 13:16

Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

Noyes Bible

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

15Every one that is overtaken shall be thrust through, And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

17Behold, I stir up against them the Medes, Who make no account of silver, And as to gold, they do not regard it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Happy be he who seizeth thy little ones And dasheth them against the stones!

Lamentations 5:11Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.

Nahum 3:10Yet was she carried away; she went into captivity; Her children were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; For her honorable men they cast lots, And all her great men 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 →

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