Isaiah 13:16

WEB

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

KJV

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Commentary

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes,.... Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, Psa 137:8 and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Jews, Ch2 36:17 and this was to be done "before their eyes", in the sight of the inhabitants, which must make it the more distressing and afflicting; and, as Kimchi observes, this phrase is to be applied to the following clauses: their houses shall be spoiled; plundered of the substance, wealth, and riches in them, by the Persian soldiers: and their wives ravished; by the same, and both before their eyes, and after that slain, in like manner as they had ravished the women in Zion, Lam 5:11 .