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Isaiah 13:17

15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

18 Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
KJV
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
WEB
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
ASV
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
DARBY
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
BLB
Behold, I am stirring up against them the Medes, who regard have no for silver, and gold—they do not delight in it.
ÅB
Se, jeg egger mot dem mederne, som ikke akter sølv og ikke har lyst til gull,
OTB
Se, jeg vekker mederne mot dem, som ikke verdsetter sølv og ikke gleder seg over gull.
B1930
Se, jeg egger mot dem mederne, som ikke akter sølv og ikke har lyst til gull,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Daniel 5:28–31

    PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

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  • Jeremiah 51:11

    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.

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  • Jeremiah 50:9

    For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.

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  • Isaiah 41:25

    I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

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  • Jeremiah 51:27–28

    “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

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  • Isaiah 13:3–5

    I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

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  • Proverbs 6:34–35

    For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

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  • Isaiah 21:2

    A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

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