Bible Verses About Persia

'But in the acharit-hayamim, I will bring back the exiles of 'Eilam,' says ADONAI."

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! ADONAI roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because he plans to destroy Bavel. This is the vengeance of ADONAI vengeance over his temple.

Raise a standard against the walls of Bavel! Strengthen the guard! Post the sentries! Prepare ambushes! For ADONAI has both planned and accomplished what he promised to do to those living in Bavel.

You who live near plenty of water, so rich in treasure - your end has come, your time for being cut off!

ADONAI-Tzva'ot has sworn by himself, "I will fill you with men as numerous as grasshoppers; they will raise over you a shout of triumph."

He made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom spread out the sky by his understanding.

When he thunders, the waters in heaven roar, he raises clouds from the ends of the earth, he makes the lightning flash in the rain and brings the wind out from his storehouses.

At this, everyone is proved stupid, ignorant, every goldsmith put to shame by his idol! The figures he casts are a fraud, there is no breath in them,

they are nothings, ridiculous objects; when the day for their punishment comes, they will perish.

Ya'akov's portion is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, including the tribe he claims as his heritage. ADONAI-Tzva'ot is his name.

"[Bavel] you are my war club and weapons of war - with you I shatter nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;

with you I shatter horses and their riders; with you I shatter chariots and their drivers;

with you I shatter husbands and wives; with you I shatter old and young; with you I shatter young men and virgins;

with you I shatter shepherds and their flocks; with you I shatter farmers and their teams; with you I shatter governors and deputies.

"But I will repay Bavel and all living in the land of the Kasdim for all the evil they did in Tziyon," says ADONAI, "before your eyes [, Y'hudah]."

"I am against you, destructive mountain, destroying all the earth," says ADONAI. "I will stretch out my hand against you, to send you tumbling down from the crags and make you a burned-out mountain.

No one will make cornerstones or foundation-stones from you again; but you will be desolate forever," says ADONAI.

Raise up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the nations. Prepare the nations for war against her. Summon kingdoms against her - Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint an officer against her; bring up horses like bristling grasshoppers.

Prepare the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, his governors and deputies, and all the land he controls.

The earth quakes and writhes, as ADONAI's designs against Bavel are fulfilled, to make the land of Bavel a ruin, with no one living there.

Bavel's warriors have given up fighting; they remain in their fortresses; their courage has failed; they are now like women. Her homes are on fire, her gate-bars broken.

One runner runs to meet another, messenger to meet messenger, to report to the king of Bavel that every part of his city is taken,

the fords have been occupied, and the swamp thickets set on fire, while the warriors are seized with panic.

For here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: "The daughter of Bavel is like a threshing-floor at treading-time. Just a little while longer, and the time for harvesting her will come."

N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel has devoured me, crushed me. He left me like an empty pot. Like a monster, he swallowed me whole. With my delicacies he stuffed his belly; then he rinsed me out.