3 in the third year of his reigning he held a banquet+ for all his princes and his servants, the military force of Persia+ and Meʹdi·a,+ the nobles+ and the princes of the jurisdictional districts before himself,+
28 the One saying of Cyrus,*+ ‘He is my shepherd, and all that I delight in he will completely carry out’;+ even in [my] saying* of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’* and of the temple, ‘You will have your foundation laid.’”+
“Look! There will yet be three kings standing up for Persia,+ and the fourth one+ will amass greater riches than all [others].+ And as soon as he has become strong in his riches, he will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece.*+