And so the time is coming when I will deal with Babylonia's idols. The whole country will be put to shame, and all its people will be killed.

Bring a drought on its land and dry up its rivers. Babylonia is a land of terrifying idols that have made fools of the people.

Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped."

Then I will make the arms of the king of Babylonia strong and put my sword in his hands. But I will break the arms of the king of Egypt, and he will groan and die in front of his enemy.

That same night Belshazzar, the king of Babylonia, was killed;

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