1 And in the first year of Cyrus*+ the king of Persia, that Jehovah’s word from the mouth of Jeremiah+ might be accomplished, Jehovah roused+ the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia so that he caused a cry+ to pass through all his realm, and also in writing,+ saying:

2 There is a hard vision+ that has been told to me: The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, and the despoiler is despoiling.+ Go up, O Eʹlam! Lay siege, O Meʹdi·a!+ All sighing due to her I have caused to cease.+

45 This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one,*+ to Cyrus,* whose right hand I have taken hold of,+ to subdue before him nations,+ so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut:

9 For here I am arousing and bringing up against Babylon a congregation of great nations from the land of the north,+ and they will certainly array themselves against her.+ From there she will be captured.+ One’s arrows are like those of a mighty man causing bereavement of children, who does not come back without results.+

28 And as for this Daniel, he prospered in the kingdom of Da·riʹus*+ and in the kingdom of Cyrus* the Persian.+

9 In the first year of Da·riʹus+ the son of A·has·u·eʹrus* of the seed of the Medes,+ who had been made king over the kingdom of the Chal·deʹans;+