Isaiah 13:16

Isaiah 13:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
• New International Version (NIV)Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.

Context of Isaiah 13:16

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. 15Whoever is found will be stabbed to death. Whoever is captured will be executed. Their 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. 18But their bows will smash the youth. They’ll have no compassion for babies, nor will they look with pity on children.

Isaiah 13:16 word by word

וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥ם יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּ לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם יִשַּׁ֙סּוּ֙ בָּֽתֵּיהֶ֔ם וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Their childrenעוֹלֵל‛ôlêl ‛ôlâl · infantH5768
• also shall be dashed to piecesרָטַשׁrâţash · to dash in piecesH7376
• before their eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• their housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• shall be spoiledשָׁסַסshâsas · to plunderH8155
• and their wivesאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
• ravishedשָׁגֵלshâgal · to ravishH7693
• ravishedשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: have sexH7901

Cross-references for Isaiah 13:16

• Psalms 137:8You destructive people of Babylon, blessed is the one who pays you back with the same treatment you gave us.
• Hosea 10:14So your army will hear the noise of battle. All your fortresses will be destroyed like the time Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in battle. Mothers and their children were smashed to death.
• Nahum 3:10Even she went into captivity and was exiled. Even her little children were smashed to death at every street corner. Soldiers tossed dice for her important men, and all her best men were bound in chains.
• Lamentations 5:11Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.
• Zechariah 14:2I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people in the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people won’t be taken from the city.

Commentaries on Isaiah 13:16

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces - This is a description of the horrors of the capture of Babylon; and there can be none more frightful and appalling than that which is here presented. That this is done in barbarous nations in the time of war, there can be no doubt. Nothing was more common among American savages, than to dash out the brains of infants against a rock or a tree, and it was often done before the eyes of the afflicted and…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
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16These terrible acts of war would happen to Babylon. Babylon was a cruel conquering power (see also Psalm 137:8–9; Jeremiah 6:11–12; Nahum 3:10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. (Psa 137:8, 9).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 13:16

• Cruelty
• Rape
• War

In the dictionaries

• Babylon
• Captive
• Glory
• Haughtiness
• Howl
• Astronomy
• Canon of the Old Testament
• Dash
• Esther, the Rest of
• Evil

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