Isaiah 13:15

Bible in Basic English

Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Whoever is found will be stabbed,and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

Hebrew Names Version
Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

King James Version
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

English Standard Version
Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

New American Standard Bible
Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

New Century Version
Everyone who is captured will be killed; everyone who is caught will be killed with a sword.

Amplified Bible
Anyone who is found will be pierced through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

World English Bible
Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery one that is founde, shall be striken through: and whosoeuer ioyneth himselfe, shal fal by the sworde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Anyone who is found will be pierced through,And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Berean Standard Bible
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

Contemporary English Version
Those who are captured will be killed by a sword.

Complete Jewish Bible
Anyone found will be pierced through; anyone caught will fall by the sword,

Darby Translation
All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.

Easy-to-Read Version
Anyone caught by the enemy will be killed with a sword.

George Lamsa Translation
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that escapes shall fall by the sword.

Good News Translation
Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

Lexham English Bible
Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.

Literal Translation
Everyone who is found shall be pierced through; yea, everyone who is swept away shall fall by the sword.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so is founde alone, shalbe shot thorow: And who so gather together, shalbe destroyed wt the swerde.

American Standard Version
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

King James Version (1611)
Euery one that is found shall be thrust through: and euery one that is ioyned vnto them, shall fall by the sword.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whoso is founde shalbe shot thorowe: and whoso taketh their part, shalbe destroyed with the sworde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

English Revised Version
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech man that is foundun, schal be slayn; and ech man that cometh aboue, schal falle doun bi swerd.

Update Bible Version
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

Webster's Bible Translation
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [to them] shall fall by the sword.

New English Translation
Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

New King James Version
Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

New Living Translation
Anyone who is captured will be cut down— run through with a sword.

New Life Bible
Anyone who is found will have a spear put through him. And anyone who is caught will fall by the sword.

New Revised Standard
Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Every one found, shall be thrust through, - And, every one taken, shall fall by the sword;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

Revised Standard Version
Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

Young's Literal Translation
Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one who is added falleth by sword.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; ⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. ⁹ See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light. ¹¹ And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel. ¹² I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir. ¹³ For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion. ¹⁴ And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land. ¹⁵ Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 14:19-22, Isaiah 47:9-14, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:35-42, Jeremiah 51:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 94:6 - General Isaiah 13:9 - cruel Isaiah 13:12 - General Isaiah 14:20 - the seed Jeremiah 37:10 - wounded men Jeremiah 50:30 - her young Jeremiah 51:4 - thrust Jeremiah 51:52 - the wounded Acts 2:20 - sun James 4:8 - Cleanse

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

Genesis 13:2
Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

Genesis 13:4
To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Genesis 13:7
And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

Genesis 13:9
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

Genesis 13:12
Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every one that is found shall be thrust through,.... With a sword, spear, or lance, and be slain; that is, everyone that is found in the city of Babylon; and so the Targum adds,

"and everyone that is found in it shall be slain;''

so Kimchi, in the midst of it, or without; in the street, as Jarchi. The orders of Cyrus h were, that those that were found without (in the streets) should be slain; and to proclaim in the Syriac language, that those that were within doors should continue there, but, if they were found without, they should be put to death; which orders were executed, and well agrees with this prophecy:

and everyone that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword; or "added" unto them; any of other nations that joined them as auxiliaries, see Revelation 18:4 or "that is gathered"; so the Septuagint, "they that are gathered"; that are gathered together in a body to resist the enemy, and defend themselves. Some render the word, "every one that is consumed", with age; neither old nor young, as follows, should be spared. The Targum is,

"everyone that enters into the fortified cities,''

flees there for safety and protection.

h Xenophon. Cyropaedia, l. 7. sect. 23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every one that is found - In Babylon, or that is overtaken in fleeing from it. This is a description of the capture of the city, and of the slaughter that would ensue, when the invaders would spare neither age nor sex.

Every one that is joined unto them - Their allies and friends. There shall be a vast, indiscriminate slaughter of all that are found in the city, and of those that attempt to flee from it. Lowth renders this, ‘And all that are collected in a body;’ but the true sense is given in our translation. The Chaldee renders it, ‘And every one who enters into fortified cities shall be slain with the sword.’

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 13:15. Every one that is found - "Every one that is overtaken"] That is, none shall escape from the slaughter; neither they who flee singly, dispersed and in confusion; nor they who endeavour to make their retreat in a more regular manner, by forming compact bodies: they shall all be equally cut off by the sword of the enemy. The Septuagint have understood it in this sense, which they have well expressed: -

Ὁς γαρ αν ἁλῳ ἡττηθησεται,

Και οἱτινες συνηγμενοι εισι πεσουνται μαχαιρα.

"Whosoever is caught shall be overthrown,

And all that are collected together shall fall by the sword."

Where, for ηττηθησεται, MS. Pachom has εκκενθησεται, et οιγ Cod. Marchal. in margine, et MS. I. D. II. εκκεντηθησεται, which seems to be right, being properly expressive of the Hebrew.