Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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.
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.
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
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Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 13:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Oracle Against Babylon
15 Whoso is found alone, shall be shot through: And whoso gather together, shall be destroyed with the sword. 16 Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.
Cross References
Nahum 3:10
yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.
Psalm 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, thou shalt come to misery thyself; yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Hosea 10:14
there shall grow a sedition among thy people. All thy strong cities shall be laid waste, even as Shalman was destroyed with his familiars, through him that was avenged of Arbel in the day of battle: where the mother perished with her children.
Isaiah 13:18
Then shall young men's bows be knapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with child, and their faces shall not spare the children.
Lamentations 5:11
The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather together all the Heathen, to fight against Jerusalem: so that the city shall be won, the houses spoiled, and the women defiled. The half of the city shall go away into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be carried out of the city.