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Isaiah 13

Isa. 13:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I will stir up
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
thed Medes
Maday (Hebrew #4074)
Madai, a country of central Asia
KJV usage: Madai, Medes, Media.
Pronounce: maw-dah'-ee
Origin: of foreign derivation
against them, which shall not regard
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
; and as for gold
zahab (Hebrew #2091)
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV usage: gold(-en), fair weather.
Pronounce: zaw-hawb'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
, they shall not delight
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
in it.
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Dan. 5:28,31• 28PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
 31And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. (Dan. 5:28,31)

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Gold,
Medes; Media,
Silver

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Ministry on This Verse

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I will.
Isa. 13:3‑5• 3I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.
 4The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
 5They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens--Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation--to destroy the whole land. (Isa. 13:3‑5)
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Isa. 21:2• 2A grievous vision is declared unto me: the treacherous dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease. (Isa. 21:2)
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Isa. 41:25• 25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come,--from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. (Isa. 41:25)
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Jer. 50:9• 9For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon, an assemblage of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her: from thence shall she be taken. Their arrows shall be as those of a mighty expert man: none shall return empty. (Jer. 50:9)
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Jer. 51:11,27‑28• 11Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.
 27Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars.
 28Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion. (Jer. 51:11,27‑28)
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Dan. 5:28‑31• 28PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
 29Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
 31And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. (Dan. 5:28‑31)
shall not regard.
Prov. 6:34‑35• 34For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance;
 35he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest thy gifts. (Prov. 6:34‑35)
• In verse 17 the prophecy does descend to a judgment more immediate, which was executed by the Medes, as the book of Daniel records. It is in this connection that the statement is made that the destruction of Babylon should be complete and irremediable. (“Isaiah 13” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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