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What does Isaiah 13:15 mean?

"Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword."

— Isaiah 13:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14

It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

15

Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

16

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

17

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

18

Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

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