Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
New American Standard Bible
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.
King James Version
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Holman Bible
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
International Standard Version
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be looted, and their wives slept with.
A Conservative Version
Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
American Standard Version
Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
Amplified
Their children also will be smashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be looted
And their wives ravished.
Darby Translation
And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
Julia Smith Translation
And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, and their houses shall be plundered, and their wives shall be ravished.
King James 2000
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.
Modern King James verseion
And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.
NET Bible
Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.
New Heart English Bible
Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
The Emphasized Bible
And, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, before their eyes, - Plundered shall be, their houses, and their wives ravished.
Webster
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
Themes
Cities » Were frequently » Pillaged
Cruelty » Instances of » In war
Punishment » The lord punishing the world
Interlinear
`ayin
Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 13:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against Babylon
15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword. 16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others. 17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
Cross References
Nahum 3:10
But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
Psalm 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Hosea 10:14
So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
Isaiah 13:18
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.