2 A harsh vision has been told to me:

Go up, O Eʹlam! Lay siege, O Meʹdi·a!+

I will put an end to all the sighing she caused.+

11 “Polish the arrows;+ take up the circular shields.*

For this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance for his temple.

27 “Lift up a signal* in the land.+

Blow a horn among the nations.

Appoint* the nations against her.

Summon against her the kingdoms of Arʹa·rat,+ Minʹni, and Ashʹke·naz.+

Commission against her a recruiting officer.

Make the horses come up like bristling locusts.

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

30 That very night Bel·shazʹzar the Chal·deʹan king was killed.+