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16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes;
    their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.[a]
17 Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them,
who do not value silver
    and do not delight in gold.
18 And their bows will shatter young men.
    And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not look compassionately on children.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:16 The reading tradition (Qere) softens this to “slept with”