17 “Here I am arousing against them the Medes,+ who account silver itself as nothing and who, as respects gold, take no delight in it.

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.+

48 “And over Babylon the heavens and the earth and all that is in them will certainly cry out joyfully,+ for out of the north there will come to her the despoilers,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.