Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of His people.

and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,

The sons of Japheth [were] Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Elisa, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Helisa, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.

And [as for] his strength and valor, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against you, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

[so] a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me; he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me; now will I groan and comfort myself.

Peres; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

In the same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes may not be changed.

And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing in front of the Ulai; and he had two horns; and one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

And I saw the ram butting westward, northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and there was none that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great.

The ram which you saw that had the [two] horns is the king of the Medes and Persians.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,