2 A stern vision is told to me;
vthe traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O wElam;
lay siege, O xMedia;
all the sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
11 “Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields!
The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the nMedes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the ovengeance for his temple.
28 Prepare the nations for war against her,
the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,
and every land under their dominion.
28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the mMedes and nPersians.”1
31 1 And oDarius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
Daniel’s Prayer for His People
1 In the first year of fDarius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
