Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram which had two horns standing beside the river. The two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
“Suddenly, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’
“Y’all must sharpen the arrows, and hold the shields firmly! YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because ʜɪꜱ purpose is to destroy Babylon; for it is the vengeance of YHWH, the vengeance of ʜɪꜱ temple.
who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and will fulfill all my desire,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘Let it be rebuilt;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous one deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him.
“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘YHWH, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Angel of YHWH standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked and saw a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.