Isaiah 13:16

Their 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.

Translation for Translators

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

15Anyone who is captured in Babylon will be killed by their enemies’ swords [DOU].

17Look! I am going to incite the people of Media to attack Babylon. The army of Media will attack Babylon, even if they are offered [DOU] silver or gold if they promise to not attack it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9they will take your babies and completely smash them on the rocks.

Lamentations 5:11Our enemies have raped the women in Jerusalem, and they have done that to the young women in all the towns of Judea.

Nahum 3:10But Thebes was captured, and its people were ◄exiled/forced to go to other countries►. Their babies were dashed to pieces in the streets of the city. Enemy soldiers ◄cast lots/threw small marked stones► to decide who would get each official in Thebes to become his slave. All the leaders of Thebes were fastened/tied by 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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