^11 (A)Make^[a] the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
^(B)The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
^(C)For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is ^(D)the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.

²⁵ “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the ^[a]rising of the sun ^(A)he shall call on My name;
^(B)And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.