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16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces
    before their eyes,
and[a] their houses will be looted,
    and their wives slept with.[b]

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17 Watch out! I’m stirring up the Medes against them,
    who care nothing for silver
        and take no delight in gold.
18 Their bows will dash the young men to pieces;
    they’ll show no pity on those not yet born,[c]
        and[d] their eyes will not spare children.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:16 So 1QIsaa Syr; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa MT lack and
  2. Isaiah 13:16 So 1QIsaa MTqere; 4QIsaa MT read raped; LXX reads they will take; cf. Deut 28:30
  3. Isaiah 13:18 Lit. on the fruit of the womb
  4. Isaiah 13:18 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; the Heb. lacks and