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Isaiah 13:17

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

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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.

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הִנְנִ֛יhi.Nihere IH2005 →
מֵעִ֥ירme.'Ir[am] about to rouseH5782 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם'a.lei.Hemon themH5921 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
מָדָ֑יma.DaiMediaH4074 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whoH834 →
כֶּ֙סֶף֙ke.sefsilverH3701 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
יַחְשֹׁ֔בוּyach.Shouthey valueH2803 →
וְזָהָ֖בve.za.Havand goldH2091 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
יַחְפְּצוּ־yach.pe.tzu-they delightH2654 →
בֽוֹ׃voin it

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Daniel 5:28–31PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen 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.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.Jeremiah 50:9For 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.Isaiah 41:25I 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.Daniel 5:28PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”Isaiah 21:2A 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.”Proverbs 6:34–35For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.Isaiah 13:3–5I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.Isaiah 45:13I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.Jeremiah 25:25all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.1 Kings 11:14Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.Jeremiah 51:53Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.1 Kings 11:23And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,Daniel 8:3Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.Isaiah 13:5They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

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Isaiah's Vision of the Destruction of Babylon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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