SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:18
Y con arcos tirarán a los niños, y no tendrán misericordia del fruto del vientre, ni su ojo perdonará a los hijos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 13:18
Verse 18. Their bows also shall dash"Their bows shall dash"] Both Herodotus, i. 61, and Xenophon, Anab. iii., mention, that the Persians used large bows toxa megala: and the latter says particularly that their bows were three cubits long, Anab. iv. They were celebrated for their archers, see chap xxii. 6; Jer. xlix. 35. Probably their neighours and allies, the Medes, dealt much in the same sort of arms. In Psa. xxviii. 34, and Job xx. 24, mention is made of a bow of steel; if the Persian bows were of metal, we may easily conceive that with a metalline bow of three cubits' length, and proportionably strong, the soldiers might dash and slay the young men, the weaker and unresisting of the inhabitants (for they are joined with the fruit of the womb and the children) in the general carnage on taking the city. hntrt terattashnah, shall be broken or shivered to pieces. This seems to refer, not to µyr[n nearim, young men, but to twtq keshathoth, their bows. The bows of the young men shall be broken to pieces. On the fruit, &c. "And on the fruit," &c.] A MS. of Dr. Kennicott's reads yrp l[w veal peri and on the fruit. And nine MSS. (three ancient) and two editions, with the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Syriac, add likewise the conjunction w vau, and, to l[ al, upon, afterwards.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The armies of God's wrath. (Is. 13:1-5) The conquest of Babylon. (Is 13:6-18) Its final desolation. (Is. 13:19-22)
Is. 13:1-5 The threatenings of God's word press heavily upon the wicked, and are a sore burden, too heavy for them to bear. The person brought together to lay Babylon waste, are called God's sanctified of appointed ones; designed for this service, and made able to do it. The are called God's mighty ones, because they had their might from God and were now to use it for him. They come from afar. God can make thos a scourge and ruin to his enemies, who are farthest off, and therefor least dreaded.
Is. 13:6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, an haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. Their faces shall be scorched with the flame. All comfort and hope shal fail. The stars of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened. Such expressions are often employed by the prophets, to describe the convulsions of governments. God will visit them for their iniquity, particularly the sin of pride, which brings men low. Ther shall be a general scene of horror. Those who join themselves to Babylon, must expect to share her plagues, Rev. 18:4. All that me have, they would give for their lives, but no man's riches shall be the ransom of his life. Pause here and wonder that men should be thus crue and inhuman, and see how corrupt the nature of man is become. And tha little infants thus suffer, which shows that there is an origina guilt, by which life is forfeited as soon as it is begun. The day of the Lord will, indeed, be terrible with wrath and fierce anger, fa beyond all here stated. Nor will there be any place for the sinner to flee to, or attempt an escape. But few act as though they believe these things.
Is. 13:19-22 Babylon was a noble city; yet it should be wholl destroyed. None shall dwell there. It shall be a haunt for wild beasts All this is fulfilled. The fate of this proud city is a proof of the truth of the Bible, and an emblem of the approaching ruin of the Ne Testament Babylon; a warning to sinners to flee from the wrath to come and it encourages believers to expect victory over every enemy of their souls, and of the church of God. The whole world changes and is liabl to decay. Wherefore let us give diligence to obtain a kingdom whic cannot be moved; and in this hope let us hold fast that grace whereb we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וקשׁתות 7198 נערים 5288 תרטשׁנה 7376 ופרי 6529 בטן 990 לא 3808 ירחמו 7355 על 5921 בנים 1121 לא 3808 תחוס 2347 עינם׃ 5869
