Isaiah 13:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

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  • Nah 3:10 : 10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
  • Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
  • Isa 13:18 : 18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
  • Lam 5:11 : 11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

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  • Isa 13:17-19
    3 verses
    86%

    17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

    18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

    19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    81%

    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

    15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

  • Jer 18:21
    81%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Nah 3:10
    78%

    10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

  • Hos 10:14
    77%

    14 So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

  • Zeph 1:13
    76%

    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Jer 6:12
    76%

    12 And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.

  • Zech 14:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

    2 For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

  • Ezek 16:39-41
    3 verses
    76%

    39 I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

    40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

    41 And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

  • Ezek 23:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.

    47 And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.

  • Ezek 26:12
    75%

    12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Jer 50:37
    75%

    37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

  • Jer 13:14
    75%

    14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

  • Jer 14:16
    74%

    16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    74%

    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • 2 Chr 36:17
    74%

    17 So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.

  • Exod 22:24
    74%

    24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Lam 4:10
    74%

    10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Ezek 23:25
    73%

    25 And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

  • Jer 19:9
    73%

    9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • Jer 51:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

    4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.

  • Gen 34:29
    73%

    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • Lam 5:11
    73%

    11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

  • Isa 3:25
    72%

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • Jer 50:26
    72%

    26 Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    72%

    14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

  • Mic 2:9
    72%

    9 The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

  • Jer 11:22
    72%

    22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

  • Ps 137:9
    72%

    9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

  • Jer 50:30
    72%

    30 For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 26:9
    72%

    9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Ezek 9:6
    72%

    6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

  • Jer 30:16
    72%

    16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • Ezek 23:10
    72%

    10 By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

  • Isa 13:8
    72%

    8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Deut 28:57
    72%

    57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Amos 7:17
    72%

    17 So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

  • Deut 32:25
    72%

    25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.