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.

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.+

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.+

5 “And, see there! another beast, a second one, it being like a bear.+ And on one side it was raised up,+ and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and this is what they were saying to it, ‘Get up, eat much flesh.’+

20 “The ram that you saw possessing the two horns [stands for] the kings of Meʹdi·a and Persia.+