Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will strike down the young men; 1 they will have no mercy on infants and they will not look with pity on children. 1
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2 Kings 8:12Hazael asked, “Why do you weep, my master?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Isaiah 13:16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. 1 Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. 1
Ezekiel 9:10So then, my eye will not look with compassion, and I will not spare them. I will instead bring it all on their heads.”
Hosea 13:16Samaria will be guilty, 1 for she has rebelled against her God. 1 They will fall by the sword; 1 their young children will be dashed to pieces, 1 and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
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 →