Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD God of heaven given me; and he has instructed me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
A severe vision is declared to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the plunderer plunderers. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from where it arises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not change.