Catholic Public Domain Version
"Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children. "
— Isaiah 13:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.”
“Andtheirbows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. ”
“Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.”
“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.”
“But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.”
“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.”
“Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.”
All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword.
Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire gold.
Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children.
And then Babylon, the glorious one among kingdoms, that famous pride of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed, even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.
Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about there.