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:

28 Sanctify against her the nations, the kings of Meʹdi·a,+ its governors and all its deputy rulers and all the land of each one’s* dominion.

28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided* and given to the Medes and the Persians.”*+

2 And now what is truth I shall tell to you:+

“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.*+