Isaiah 13:16

16 Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

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 They'll be like hunted gazelle and like sheep with no one to gather them. Everyone will return to his own people and flee to his own land.

15 Whoever is found will be stabbed to death. Whoever is captured will be executed.

16 Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

17 I'm going to stir up the Medes against them. They don't care for silver and aren't happy with gold.

18 But their bows will smash the youth. They'll have no compassion for babies, nor will they look with pity on children.