A stern vision is told to me;
    (A)the traitor betrays,
    and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
    lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
    I bring to an end.

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11 (A)“Sharpen the arrows!
    Take up the shields!

(B)The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of (C)the Medes, because (D)his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, (E)for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for (F)his temple.

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28 (A)Prepare (B)the nations for war against her,
    the kings of (C)the Medes, (D)with their governors (E)and deputies,
    and every (F)land under their dominion.

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28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia

31 [a] And (A)Darius (B)the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aramaic

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