Isaiah 13:15

Anyone who is captured in Babylon will be killed by their enemies’ swords [DOU].

Translation for Translators

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

14And all the foreigners in Babylon will run around like [SIM] deer that are being hunted, like sheep that do not have a shepherd. They will try to find other people from their countries, and then they will escape from Babylon and return to their own countries.

16Their little children will be dashed to pieces on the rocks while their parents watch; their enemies will steal everything valuable from their houses and will rape their wives.

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:9But both of those things will happen to you suddenly: Many of your women will become widows and many of your children will die, even though you perform much sorcery and many kinds of magic to prevent bad things from happening to you.

Jeremiah 50:27Destroy all the young men who are as strong as [MET] bulls; take them to where you will slaughter them. It will be terrible for them, because it will be time for them to be punished.

Jeremiah 51:3I will tell them, ‘Do not allow the archers of Babylon to have time to put on their armor or draw their bows. Do not spare the young men of Babylon. Completely destroy their army.’

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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