Isaiah 13:18

With their arrows, the soldiers of Media will shoot the young men of Babylon; they will not even act mercifully [DOU] toward infants or children!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

In Context

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.

19Babylon has been a very beautiful [MTY] city; all the people of Babylonia have been very proud of Babylon, their capital city; but God will destroy Babylon, like [SIM] he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Cross References

2 Kings 8:12Hazael said, “Sir, why are you crying?” Elisha replied, “Because Yahweh has enabled me to know the terrible things that you will do to the people of Israel: You will burn their cities with walls around them, you will kill their fine young men with a sword, you will bash the heads of their children, and you will rip open the bellies of their pregnant women with a sword.”

Isaiah 13:16Their 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.

Ezekiel 9:10So I will not pity them or act mercifully toward them. I will do to them the evil things that they have done to other people.”

Hosea 13:16You people of Samaria must be punished because you have rebelled against me, your God. You will be killed by your enemies’ swords; your little children will be killed by being dashed/thrown to the ground; the bellies ofpregnant women among you will be ripped open.”

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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