God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 13:15
15Whoever is found will be stabbed to death. Whoever is captured will be executed.
Isaiah 13:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
- New International Version (NIV)Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
Context of Isaiah 13:15
13I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place when the Lord of Armies is angry. At that time he will be very angry. 14They’ll be like hunted gazelle and like sheep with no one to gather them. Everyone will return to his own people and flee to his own land. Whoever is found will be stabbed to death. Whoever is captured will be executed. 16Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped. 17I’m going to stir up the Medes against them. They don’t care for silver and aren’t happy with gold.
Read all of Isaiah 13Isaiah 13:15 word by word
כָּל־הַנִּמְצָ֖א יִדָּקֵ֑ר וְכָל־הַנִּסְפֶּ֖ה יִפּ֥וֹל בֶּחָֽרֶב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 13:15
- Isaiah 14:19But you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.
- Isaiah 47:9In one day both of these will happen to you instantly: the loss of your children and your husband. All this will happen to you in spite of your evil magic and your many spells.
- Jeremiah 50:27Kill all their young bulls. Let them go to be slaughtered. How horrible it will be for them when their time has come, the time for them to be punished.
- Jeremiah 51:3Have the archers bend their bows. Have them put on their armor. Don’t spare Babylon’s young men. Completely destroy its whole army.
Commentaries on Isaiah 13:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Every one that is found "Every one that is overtaken" - That is, none shall escape from the slaughter; neither they who flee singly, dispersed and in confusion; nor they who endeavor to make their retreat in a more regular manner, by forming compact bodies: they shall all be equally cut off by the sword of the enemy. The Septuagint have understood it in this sense, which they have well expressed: - ̔ ̔ͅ ̔, ̔ . "Whosoever is caught shall be overthrown, And…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Every one that is found - In Babylon, or that is overtaken in fleeing from it. This is a description of the capture of the city, and of the slaughter that would ensue, when the invaders would spare neither age nor sex. Every one that is joined unto them - Their allies and friends. There shall be a vast, indiscriminate slaughter of all that are found in the city, and of those that attempt to flee from it. Lowth renders this, And all that are collected in a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-18Verses 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 convulsions of governments. God…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. found--in the city. joined--"intercepted" [Maurer]. "Every one that has withdrawn himself," namely, to hide in the houses [Gesenius].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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