Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

15Euery one that is founde, shall be striken through: and whosoeuer ioyneth himselfe, shall fal by the sworde.

17Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde siluer, nor be desirous of golde.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

Lamentations 5:11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.

Nahum 3:10Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.

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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