Verse 16

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

Referenced Verses

• Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
• Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us! 9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!
• Hos 10:14 : 14 Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
• Isa 13:18 : 18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.
• Lam 5:11 : 11 They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
• Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.