Isaiah 13:16
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah 13:16 in other translations
| BSB | Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished. |
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| WEB | Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. |
| ASV | Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. |
| YLT | And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with. |
| DARBY | And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished. |
| BBE | Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others. |
| Webster | Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished. |
What does Isaiah 13:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 13:6-18
We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. Their faces shall be scorched with the flame. All comfort and hope shall fail. The stars of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened. Such expressions are often employed by the prophets, to describe the…
Isaiah 13:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 13:16
- Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
- Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- Psalms 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
- Isaiah 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
- Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Context
- Isaiah 13:15
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
- Isaiah 13:16
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
- Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Isaiah 13:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sus niños serán estrellados delante de ellos; sus casas serán saqueadas, y forzadas sus mujeres. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et leurs petits enfants seront écrasés devant leurs yeux, leurs maisons seront pillées, et leurs femmes seront violées. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ihre Kinder werden vor ihren Augen zerschmettert, ihre Häuser geplündert und ihre Weiber geschändet werden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | infantes eorum allidentur in oculis eorum, diripientur domus eorum, et uxores eorum violabuntur. |