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Isaiah 13:16

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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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥םve.'o.le.lei.Hemand children theirH5768 →
יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּye.ru.te.Shuthey will be dashed in piecesH7376 →
לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑םle.'ei.nei.Hemto eyes theirH5869 →
יִשַּׁ֙סּוּ֙yi.Sha.suthey will be plunderedH8155 →
בָּֽתֵּיהֶ֔םba.tei.Hemhouses theirH1004 →
וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖םu.ne.shei.Hemand wives theirH802 →
תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃ti.sha.khab.nahthey will be lain withH7901 →

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Psalms 137:9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.2 Kings 8:12“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.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.Psalms 137:8–9O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.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.Jeremiah 51:22With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.Amos 7:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.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.Jeremiah 39:6There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

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Isaiah's Vision of the Destruction of Babylon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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