Isaiah Chapter 13 verse 16 Holy Bible
Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
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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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And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
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And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Their children also shall be dashed to pieces. In the barbarous warfare of the time, even children were not spared (see Psalm 137:9; Nahum 3:10; Hosea 13:16). When a town was taken by assault, they were ruthlessly slaughtered. When spared, it was only to be dragged off as captives, and to become the slaves of their captors in a foreign land. Assyrian sculptures often illustrate this latter practice. Their wives ravished (comp. Lamentations 5:11; Zechariah 14:2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Their children also shall be dashed.--Better, their sucklings. The words of the prediction seem to have been in the minds of the exiles in Babylon when they uttered their dread beatitude on those who were to be the ministers of a righteous vengeance (Psalm 137:9). Outrages such as these were then, as they have been ever since, the inevitable accompaniments of the capture of a besieged city.
