Isaiah 13:16

Their olelim (infants) also shall be dashed to pieces 1 before their eyes; 1 their batim (houses) shall be looted, 1 and their nashim ravished. 1

Orthodox Jewish 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 found 1 yidaker (shall be pierced through, see Zech 12:10 for this same word and Moshiach); 1 and every one that is caught 1 shall fall by the cherev. 1

17Hineni, I will stir up the Medes against them, 1 which shall not regard kesef; 1 and as for zahav, they shall not delight in it. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Ashrei shall he be, 1 that taketh and dasheth thy olalim against the sela.

Lamentations 5:11They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, 1 and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah. 1

Nahum 3:10Yet she went into golus, 1 she went into captivity; 1 her olalim also were dashed in pieces 1 at the head of all the streets; 1 and they cast goral (lots) for her honorable men, 1 and all her gedolim were bound in chains. 1

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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