45 This is what Jehovah says to his anointed one, to Cyrus,+

Whose right hand I have taken hold of+

To subdue nations before him,+

To disarm* kings,

To open before him the double doors,

So that the gates will not be shut:

28 Appoint* against her the nations,

The kings of Meʹdi·a,+ its governors and all its deputy rulers

And all the lands they rule over.

29 And the earth will quake and tremble,

For the thoughts of Jehovah against Babylon will be carried out

To make the land of Babylon an object of horror, without an inhabitant.+