Isaiah 13:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.
  • 2 Chr 36:17 : 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.
  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
  • Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity: 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.
  • Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
  • Nah 2:1 : 1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.
  • 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.

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

    16Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

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

  • Jer 51:3-4
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    79%

    3Against 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.

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

  • Jer 18:21
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    21For 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.

  • Jer 50:42
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    42Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

  • Jer 13:14
    77%

    14I 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.

  • 2 Chr 36:17
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    17So 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.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10But 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.

  • Isa 13:19
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    19And 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 14:21
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    21Make 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.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Hos 10:14
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    14So 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.

  • Jer 6:23
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    23Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Jer 50:13-14
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    13Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

    14Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17They 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.

  • Deut 32:25
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    25Outside 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.

  • Jer 11:22
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    22So 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:

  • Jer 50:30
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    30For 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.

  • Ps 21:10
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    10Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Isa 27:11
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    11When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

  • Jer 19:9
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    9I 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.

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

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  • Hos 2:4
    72%

    4And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

  • Lam 2:11
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    11My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

  • Ps 37:15
    72%

    15But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • Jer 50:37
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    37A 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.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

  • Hos 9:16
    71%

    16The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.

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    16And 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.

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    5And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

  • Jer 16:3-4
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    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

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    28Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

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    26Come 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.

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

  • Jer 15:7
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    7And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

  • Jer 50:9
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    9For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.

  • Isa 3:4
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    4And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.