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14 They[a] will be like a hunted gazelle,
    or like sheep with no one to gather them,[b]
each will turn to his own people,
    and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through,
    and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed[c] by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces
    before their eyes,
and[d] their houses will be looted,
    and their wives slept with.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads it
  2. Isaiah 13:14 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsaa reads banished
  3. Isaiah 13:15 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks dead, killed
  4. Isaiah 13:16 So 1QIsaa Syr; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa MT lack and
  5. Isaiah 13:16 So 1QIsaa MTqere; 4QIsaa MT read raped; LXX reads they will take; cf. Deut 28:30