Isaiah 13:17 · 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.”
— Isaiah 13:17
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
{Their} bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Isaiah 13 — Context
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined {unto them} shall fall by the sword.
16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and {as for} gold, they shall not delight in it.
18{Their} bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {as...: Heb. as the overthrowing}
Cross References
Daniel 5:28-31
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Jeremiah 51:11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device {is} against Babylon, to destroy it; because it {is} the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. {bright: Heb. pure}
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
Isaiah 41:25
I have raised up {one} from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as {upon} morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Jeremiah 50:9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows {shall be} as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. {expert...: or, destroyer}
Isaiah 13:3-5
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, {even} them that rejoice in my highness.
Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {grievous: Heb. hard}
Proverbs 6:34-35
For jealousy {is} the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.