Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Cross-reference

Isaiah 13:18 continues with bows dashing young men and no pity on children — reinforcing the total destruction of Babylon.

Isaiah 47:6 Historical context

Isaiah 47:6 shows Babylon's merciless treatment of Israel — the reason for the brutal judgment in 13:16 as divine retribution.

Psalm 137:9 Allusion

Psalm 137:9 vividly matches — 'dash thy little ones' — the same atrocity described against Babylon. Direct echo.

Lamentations 5:11 laments women ravished in Zion — the same violation of wives described here, now suffered by Judah.

Nahum 3:10 Parallel

Nahum 3:10 depicts Nineveh's fall with infants dashed in streets — identical violence, applied to a different empire.

Zechariah 14:2 describes Jerusalem's fall with houses plundered and women ravished — directly parallel to this list.

2 Kings 8:12 predicts Hazael dashing children and ripping up pregnant women — same atrocity as infants dashed.

Hosea 13:16 Parallel

Hosea 13:16 uses identical imagery (infants dashed, pregnant women ripped) for Samaria's judgment — a common prophetic idiom for total destruction.

Psalm 137:8 Parallel

Psalm 137:8 pronounces blessing on Babylon's destroyer — the same Babylonian empire judged in Isaiah 13. Both anticipate Babylon's fall.