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Isaiah 13:15-17
New English Translation
Isaiah 13:15-17
New English Translation
15 Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;
everyone who is seized[a] will die[b] by the sword.
16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;
their houses will be looted
and their wives raped.
17 Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them;[c]
they are not concerned about silver,
nor are they interested in gold.[d]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:15 tn Heb “carried off,” i.e., grabbed from the fleeing crowd. See HALOT 764 s.v. ספה.
- Isaiah 13:15 tn Heb “will fall” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NLT “will be run through with a sword.”
- Isaiah 13:17 tn Heb “against them”; NLT “against Babylon.”
- Isaiah 13:17 sn They cannot be bought off, for they have a lust for bloodshed.
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