Isaiah 13:15
Good News Translation
Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

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

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

New American Bible
Everyone who is taken shall be run through; and everyone who is caught 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Isaiah 14:19-22 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass. . . .

Isaiah 47:9-14 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters. . . .

Jeremiah 50:27,35-42 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation. . . .

Jeremiah 51:3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.

Context
An Oracle Concerning Babylon
14And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land. 15Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.16Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

Isaiah 21:15
For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

Jeremiah 50:25
The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 51:3
Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.

Jeremiah 51:4
And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Jeremiah 51:22
And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:

Isaiah 13:14
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