Isaiah 13:17

Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

In Context

16And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

18They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.

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Cross References

Proverbs 6:34For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Isaiah 21:2so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

Jeremiah 50:9Take thee great stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the men of Juda:

Jeremiah 51:27For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →

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