Bible in Basic English
"See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold."
— Isaiah 13:17, Bible in Basic English
“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. ”
And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.