15. “Whoever is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword.
16. “And their children are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered and their wives ravished.
17. “See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they do not delight in it.
18. “And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spare no children.