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

14It will be like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one gathering. Each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own country. 15Everyone found will be thrust through. Everyone caught will fall by the sword. Their babes will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished. 17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who will not value silver and will take no delight in gold. 18Their bows will cut down the young men, with no pity on the fruit of the womb, nor will their eye spare 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 137:8O daughter of Babylon, the devastated one, happy is the one who repays you as you have paid us.
• Hosea 10:14A tumult will arise among your people. All your strongholds will be demolished, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when a mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
• Nahum 3:10Yet she went off to exile among the captives. Even her babes were dashed to pieces at the head of all streets. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her great men were bound with chains.
• Lamentations 5:11The women in Zion have been ravished, maidens in the towns of Judah.
• Zechariah 14:2I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war. The city shall be captured, the houses ransacked and the women ravished. Half of the city will be exiled but the remainder of the people will not be cut off 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