Isaiah 13:18
Their keshatot (bows) also shall tear ne'arim (young men) to pieces; 1 and they shall have no rachamim on the pri beten (fruit of the womb); 1 their eyes shall not pity banim. 1
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2 Kings 8:12And Chazael said, Why weepeth, adoni? And he answered, Because I know the ra'ah (evil, harm) that thou wilt do unto the Bnei Yisroel; their strongholds wilt thou with eish set ablaze, and their bochurim wilt thou slay with the cherev, and wilt dash their olelim, and their women with child thou wilt rip open.
Isaiah 13:16Their 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
Ezekiel 9:10And as for Me, Mine eye shall show no pity, neither will I spare, but I will recompense their derech upon their rosh.
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 →