Isaiah 13:17
New King James Version
17 “Behold,(A) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not [a]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:17 esteem
Jeremiah 51:11
New King James Version
11 (A)Make[a] the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
(B)The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
(C)For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is (D)the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:11 Polish the arrows!
Proverbs 6:34-35
New King James Version
34 For (A)jealousy is a husband’s fury;
Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 He will [a]accept no recompense,
Nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:35 Lit. lift up the face of any
Daniel 5:28-31
New King James Version
28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the (A)Medes and (B)Persians.”[a] 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him (C)that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Belshazzar’s Fall
30 (D)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 31 (E)And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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- Daniel 5:28 Aram. Paras, consonant with Peres
Isaiah 21:2
New King James Version
2 A distressing vision is declared to me;
(A)The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
(B)Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
New King James Version
27 (A)Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
(B)Prepare the nations against her,
Call (C)the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
28 Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
Jeremiah 50:9
New King James Version
9 (A)For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of [a]an expert warrior;
(B)None shall return in vain.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:9 So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. a warrior who makes childless
Isaiah 41:25
New King James Version
25 “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the [a]rising of the sun (A)he shall call on My name;
(B)And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:25 East
Isaiah 13:3-5
New King James Version
3 I have commanded My [a]sanctified ones;
I have also called (A)My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who (B)rejoice in My exaltation.”
4 The (C)noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
5 They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The (D)Lord and His [b]weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole (E)land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:3 consecrated or set apart
- Isaiah 13:5 Or instruments
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