He says to Cyrus, You are My shepherd; and he shall complete all My pleasure, even for Me to say to Jerusalem, You are built; and to the temple, You are founded.
And he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, even, behold, the ruler of Greece shall come.
And wherever the sons of men, the animals of the field, and the fowl of the heavens dwell, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Inasmuch as iron crushes and smashes all things, and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall eat up all the earth, and shall trample it down and crush it.