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Isaiah 13:16

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13:16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;

their houses will be looted

and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13:18

Context

13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; 1 

they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, 2 

they will not 3  look with pity on children.

1 tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

2 tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”

3 tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.



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