The Burden against Babylon
Isaiah 13:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- KJV
- Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
- WEB
- Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
- ASV
- Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
- LSV
- And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, || Their houses are spoiled, and their wives lain with.
- YLT
- And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
- DBY
- And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
- DRC
- Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.
- GNV
- Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.
- JPS
- Their babes also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
- LXXE
- And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
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- Written (Ketiv): תִּשָּׁגַלְנָה׃ (“they will be raped”). Read aloud (Qere): תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃ (“they will be lain with”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads תִּשָּׁגַֽלְנָה׃; read aloud (Qere) reads תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה׃ (“they will be lain with”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְעֹלְלֵיהֶ֥ם יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּ לְעֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם יִשַּׁ֨סּוּ֙ בָּֽתֵּיהֶ֔ם וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם תשגלנה׃Read aloud as (qere): תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν ῥάξουσιν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰς οἰκίας αὐτῶν προνομεύσουσιν, καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας αὐτῶν ἕξουσιν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Nahum 3:10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
- Hosea 10:14the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
- Isaiah 13:18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
- Psalms 137:8–9O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us. Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
- Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be…
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