Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Parallel translations
- WEB Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
- BSB Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- NKJV Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
- NASB Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives raped.
- NLT Their little children will be dashed to death before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked, and their wives will be raped.
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Quick answer
In the conquest even infants and households will suffer brutal violence. War's horrors fall upon proud Babylon.
Overview
The graphic depiction of slaughtered children and plundered homes reflects the brutal realities of ancient conquest that God permitted as judgment on a violent empire. Babylon, which had shown no mercy to others, receives the measure it dealt. Such passages confront us with the seriousness of sin and the justice God will execute.
Cross-references & the web
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- Hos 10:14Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
- Nah 3:10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- Ps 137:8–9O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- Isa 13:18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- Lam 5:11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
- Zech 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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