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The Burden against Babylon

Isaiah 13:15

In 11 translations

BSB
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
KJV
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
WEB
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
ASV
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
LSV
Everyone who is found is thrust through, || And everyone who is added falls by sword.
YLT
Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.
DBY
All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.
DRC
Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.
GNV
Euery one that is founde, shall be striken through: and whosoeuer ioyneth himselfe, shall fal by the sworde.
JPS
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.
LXXE
For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כָּל־הַנִּמְצָ֖א יִדָּקֵ֑ר וְכָל־הַנִּסְפֶּ֖ה יִפּ֥וֹל בֶּחָֽרֶב׃
LXX-Br
Ὃς γὰρ ἂν ἁλῷ, ἡττηθήσεται, καὶ οἵτινες συνηγμένοι εἰσὶ, πεσοῦνται μαχαίρᾳ.

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  • Jeremiah 50:25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
  • Jeremiah 50:35–42A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men. A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her…
  • Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.
  • Jeremiah 51:3–4Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction! And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
  • Isaiah 47:9–14These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells. You were secure…
  • Isaiah 14:19–22But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot. You will not join them in burial, since you have…

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