Isaiah Chapter 13 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 13:18

And `their' bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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BBE Isaiah 13:18

In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
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DARBY Isaiah 13:18

And [their] bows 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.
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KJV 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 eyes shall not spare children.
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WEB Isaiah 13:18

[Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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YLT Isaiah 13:18

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Their bows (comp. Jeremiah 1:9, 14). Both the Medes and the Persians were skilled archers. Herodotus tells us that every Persian youth was taught three things - "to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth" (1. 136). At Persepolis, Modes and Persians are alike represented as carrying bows and quivers. AEschyius regards the contest between the Persians and the Greeks as one between the arrow and the spear ('Persae,' 11. 135, 136).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces.--These, as in Isaiah 22:6, Jeremiah 1:9-14, were the characteristic weapons of the Medo-Persian armies.