Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 13:16 in context
Isaiah 13:13–19
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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
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It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
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Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
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Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
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Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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