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Isaiah 13:16

Isaiah 13:16 is verse 16 of Isaiah chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

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Isaiah 13:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

18 Their 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.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 137:8

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Psalms 137:9

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Hosea 10:14

the 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 3:10

Yet 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.

Lamentations 5:11

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Zechariah 14:2

For 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.

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