What does Isaiah 13:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES - This is a description of the horrors of the capture of Babylon; and there can be none more frightful and appalling than that which is here presented. Th...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
CHILDREN. babes....
The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....
THEREFORE I WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS— Every one who reads and compares these words with those preceding, must observe, that they contain an explanation of what the prophet had said concerning the mighty...
b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10...
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. (Psalms 137:8.)...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance (Numbers 24:3;...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE DASHED. — Better, _their sucklings._ The words of the prediction seem to have been in the minds of the exiles in Babylon when they uttered their dread beatitude on those w...
וְ עֹלְלֵיהֶ֥ם יְרֻטְּשׁ֖וּ לְ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם יִשַּׁ֨סּוּ֙ בָּֽתֵּיהֶ֔ם וּ נְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם _תִּשָּׁכַֽבְנָה_†׃...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - w...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
Their (n) children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished. (n) This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon, but after the de...
In these verses we have a continuation of the subject concerning the destruction of Babylon, with the effects to be wrought by it on all the people. And, what is very observable, so hardened against a...
16._Their children shall be dashed in pieces. _He draws a picture of extreme cruelty. It is the utmost pitch of ferocity exercised by an invading army, when no age is spared, and infants, whose age ma...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES BEFORE THEIR EYES,.... Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, Psalms 137:8 and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Je...
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Ver. 16. _Their children shall be dashed in pieces, &c._] As had been prayed...
_I will punish the world_ The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, (Luke 2:1,) because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was very...
AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE DASHED TO PIECES BEFORE THEIR EYES, as a just recompence for the like cruelty acted by them upon the Jews, 2 CHRONICLES 36:17, which also was foretold, PSALMS 137:9....
Isaiah 13:16 children H5768 pieces H7376 (H8792) eyes H5869 houses H1004 plundered H8155 (H8735) wives H802 ravished H7901 (H8735) (H8675) H7693 (H8735) children - Psalms 137:8-9; Hosea 10:14;...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The...
THE DOOM OF THE CHILDREN OF BABYLON Isaiah 13:16. _Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes_. Consider this terrible declaration— I. AS IT REGARDS MAN. 1. As a revelation of...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Hosea 10:14; Lamentations 5:11; Nahum 3:10; Psalms 137:8; Psalms 137:9; Zechariah 14:2...