Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be looted, and their wives slept with.
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.
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 Whoever is captured will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed by the sword. 16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be looted, and their wives slept with. 17 Watch out! I'm stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.
Cross References
Nahum 3:10
But she, too, was exiled she went into captivity! Her young children were dashed to pieces at every crossroad of their streets, and her famous citizens were sold by lottery, while all of her aristocrats were put in chains.
Psalm 137:8-9
Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
Hosea 10:14
Therefore a disaster will come upon your people, and all of your fortresses will be ruined. As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in wartime, mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; they'll show no pity on those not yet born, and their eyes will not spare children.
Lamentations 5:11
They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2
I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city.