◄ Isaiah 13:17 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD says, "I am stirring up the Medes to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

Contemporary English Version
The Medes can't be bought off with silver or gold, and I'm sending them to attack Babylonia.

New American Bible
I am stirring up against them the Medes, who think nothing of silver and take no delight in gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

I will

Isaiah 13:3-5 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory. . . .

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.

Isaiah 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.

Jeremiah 50:9 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.

Jeremiah 51:11,27,28 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. . . .

Daniel 5:28-31 PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians. . . .

shall not regard

Proverbs 6:34,35 Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts. . . .

Context
An Oracle Concerning Babylon
…16Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished. 17Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:18But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.…
Cross References
2 Kings 17:6
And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

Proverbs 6:34
Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Proverbs 6:35
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,

Jeremiah 25:25
And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:

Jeremiah 50:3
For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall make her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from man even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away.

Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:42
They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:11
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

Daniel 5:26
And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.

Daniel 5:28
PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and Persians.

Isaiah 13:16
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