Isaiah 13:16 “Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses…”

Isaiah 13:16

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

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Cross references

“children”

Hosea 10:14 Nahum 3:10 Psalm 137:8 Psalm 137:9

Hosea 10:14 · BSB

the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

Nahum 3:10 · BSB

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

Psalm 137:8 · BSB

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Psalm 137:9 · BSB

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

“and their”

Lamentations 5:11 Zechariah 14:2

Lamentations 5:11 · BSB

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Zechariah 14:2 · BSB

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be remove…

Also

Isaiah 13:18

Isaiah 13:18 · BSB

Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

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