Parallel Verses
King James Version
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
New American Standard Bible
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
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.
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.
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 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Cross References
Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Psalm 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
Isaiah 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.