Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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Jerome
AD 420
Hence he was ordered by the prophet to speak to the sons of Ammon and to reproach them, for they would have to be captured, and he directed a word also to the sword.… But even more is said through Isaiah in his vision against Babylon: “Behold, I will raise the Medes up against them;” and shortly later: “This Babylon, glorious among the kingdoms, the proud possession of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. It will remain uninhabited forever.”