3 For against her a nation has come up from the north.+ It is the one that makes her land an object of astonishment, so that there proves to be no one dwelling in her.+ Both man* and domestic animal have taken flight.+ They have gone away.”+

11 “Polish the arrows.+ Fill the circular shields, O men. Jehovah has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,+ because it is against Babylon that his idea is,+ in order to bring her to ruin. For it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance for his temple.+

28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided* and given to the Medes and the Persians.”*+