Isaiah 13:16

And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

Young's Literal Translation

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 is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.

17Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold — they delight not in it.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:9O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

Lamentations 5:11Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.

Nahum 3:10Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.

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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