"I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations."

Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

divisions, your kingdom is divided up and given to the Medes and Persians."

and Darius the Mede, who was then sixty-two years old, seized the royal power.

Then I was told, "Once again you must proclaim God's message about many nations, races, languages, and kings."