Isaiah 13:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 13:16 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
- Psalms 137:9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
- Isaiah 13:18Their 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.
- Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Hosea 10:14the 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 3:10Yet 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.
- Zechariah 14:2For 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 removed from the city.
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