Isaiah 13:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

I will

Shall not regard

Proverbs 6:34

General references

Psalm 94:6

Isaiah 13:12

Jeremiah 50:41

Bible References

I will

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.

I have received a distressing message: "The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!"

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

For I will rouse into action and bring against Babylon a host of mighty nations from the land of the north. They will set up their battle lines against her. They will come from the north and capture her. Their arrows will be like a skilled soldier who does not return from the battle empty-handed.

"Sharpen your arrows! Fill your quivers! The Lord will arouse a spirit of hostility in the kings of Media. For he intends to destroy Babylonia. For that is how the Lord will get his revenge -- how he will get his revenge for the Babylonians' destruction of his temple.

As for peres -- your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

Shall not regard

for jealousy kindles a husband's rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.

General references

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

"Look! An army is about to come from the north. A mighty nation and many kings are stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.