Devine Scripture

Isaiah 13:17

Isaiah chapter 13 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

v.17This passage

v.18Andtheirbows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 51:27

    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 Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

  • Isaiah 21:2

    A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

  • Jeremiah 51:11

    Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

  • Daniel 5:28

    PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

  • Proverbs 6:34

    For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

  • Isaiah 41:25

    I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.