Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! I [am] stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

New American Standard Bible

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

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.

Holman Bible

Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who cannot be bought off with silver
and who have no desire for gold.

International Standard Version

Watch out! I'm stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Listen carefully, I will put the Medes [in motion] against them,
Who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and therefore cannot be bribed].

Bible in Basic English

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

Darby Translation

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold me rousing up the Modes against them, who shall not reckon silver; and gold they shall not delight in it

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.

NET Bible

Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; they are not concerned about silver, nor are they interested in gold.

New Heart English Bible

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

The Emphasized Bible

Behold me! stirring up against them the Medes, - Who of silver, shall take no account, And as for gold, they shall not delight in it;

Webster

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

World English Bible

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, I will stir up
עוּר 
`uwr 
Usage: 80

the Medes
מדי 
Maday 
Usage: 16

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

and as for gold
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

חפץ 
Chaphets 
Usage: 76

References

Context Readings

An Oracle Against Babylon

16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped. 17 Look! I [am] stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold. 18 And [their] bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on [the] fruit of [the] womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.

Cross References

Proverbs 6:34-35

For jealousy [is the] fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon [is] to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple.

Isaiah 21:2

A hard revelation is told to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media! I put an end to all of her sighing.

Isaiah 13:3-5

I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the {ones who exalt over} my majesty.

Isaiah 41:25

I stirred up [one] from [the] north, and he has come from [the] rising of the sun. He shall call on my name, and he shall come [on] officials as [on] mortar, and as [the] {potter} treads clay.

Jeremiah 50:9

For look, I [am] going to stir up, and I [am] going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from [the] land of [the] north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows [are] like a warrior [who has] achieved success, he does not return without success.

Jeremiah 51:27-28

Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon [the] nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses like bristling creeping locusts.

Daniel 5:28-31

" 'Peres'--your kingdom has been divided and given to [the] Medes and Persians.'"

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