Isaiah 13:16

16 infantes eorum adlident in oculis eorum diripientur domus eorum et uxores eorum violabuntur

Isaiah 13:16 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes
Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, ( Psalms 137:8 Psalms 137:9 ) and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Jews, ( 2 Chronicles 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, ( Lamentations 5:11 ) .

Isaiah 13:16 In-Context

14 et erit quasi dammula fugiens et quasi ovis et non erit qui congreget unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur et singuli ad terram suam fugient

15 omnis qui inventus fuerit occidetur et omnis qui supervenerit cadet in gladio

16 infantes eorum adlident in oculis eorum diripientur domus eorum et uxores eorum violabuntur

17 ecce ego suscitabo super eos Medos qui argentum non quaerant nec aurum velint

18 sed sagittis parvulos interficiant et lactantibus uteri non misereantur et super filios non parcat oculus eorum