Isaiah 13:17

Hineni, I will stir up the Medes against them, 1 which shall not regard kesef; 1 and as for zahav, they shall not delight in it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

16Their olelim (infants) also shall be dashed to pieces 1 before their eyes; 1 their batim (houses) shall be looted, 1 and their nashim ravished. 1

18Their keshatot (bows) also shall tear ne'arim (young men) to pieces; 1 and they shall have no rachamim on the pri beten (fruit of the womb); 1 their eyes shall not pity banim. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 6:34For kina (jealousy) is the chamat gever (husbandʼs rage); 1 therefore he will not spare in the yom nakam (day of vengeance). 1

Isaiah 21:2A chazut kashah (harsh vision) is declared unto me; 1 the boged (traitor) dealeth treacherously, and the shoded (destroyer) destroyeth. 1 Go up, O Eilam; besiege, O Media; 1 all the groaning she + 21:2 Babylon caused have I made to cease. 1

Jeremiah 50:9For, hinei, I will stir up and cause to come up against Bavel a Kahal Goyim Gedolim from eretz tzafon (land of the north); and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be captured; their khitzim (arrows) shall be as of a gibbor maskil, one that does not return empty-handed.

Jeremiah 51:27Lift ye up a nes (banner) in ha'aretz, 1 blow the shofar among the Goyim, 1 prepare the Goyim against her, 1 call together against her the mamlechot 1 of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; 1 appoint a commander against her; 1 cause the sus to come up like the swarming locusts. 1

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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