Isaiah 13:16

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. 1 Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. 1

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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 who is found will be killed, and every one who is captured will die by the sword. 1

17Look, I am about to stir up the Medes to attack them, 1 who will not be concerned about silver, nor do they delight in gold. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9May the person be blessed, whoever takes and dashes your little ones 1 against a rock.

Lamentations 5:11Women are raped in Zion, 1 and virgins in the cities of Judah. 1

Nahum 3:10Yet Thebes was carried away; she went into captivity; 1 her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; 1 her enemies threw lots for her honorable men, 1 and all her great men 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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