11 Sharpen the arrows!(A)
Fill the quivers![a]
The Lord has roused the spirit
of the kings of the Medes
because his plan is aimed at Babylon
to destroy her,
for it is the Lord’s vengeance,
vengeance for his temple.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 51:11 Or Grasp the shields!

28 ‘Peres’[a][b] means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:28 Or half a shekel
  2. 5:28 In Aramaic, the word peres is the sg form of “parsin” in v. 25.
  3. 5:28 The Aramaic word for divided and Persians sounds like peres.

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