Isaiah 13:16 - Exposition

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces. In the barbarous warfare of the time, even children were not spared (see Psalms 137:9 ; Nahum 3:10 ; Hosea 13:16 ). When a town was taken by assault, they were ruthlessly slaughtered. When spared, it was only to be dragged off as captives, and to become the slaves of their captors in a foreign land. Assyrian sculptures often illustrate this latter practice. Their wives ravished (comp. Lamentations 5:11 ; Zechariah 14:2 ).