Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished .
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Gill's Exposition
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes,.... Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, Psa 137:8 and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Jews,…
Barnes' Notes
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces - This is a description of the horrors of the capture of Babylon; and there can be none more frightful and appalling than that which is here presented.…
We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the descent which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Those that…
Cambridge Bible
That the capture of Babylon should be marked by the atrocities here spoken of was no doubt to be expected from the character of the Medes (Isa 13:13 f.), but no such crimes appear to have stained the…
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