³⁵ All the peoples of the earth
    are regarded as nothing.^(A)
He does as he pleases^(B)
    with the powers of heaven
    and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back^(C) his hand^(D)
    or say to him: “What have you done?”^(E)

²¹ He changes times and seasons;^(A)
    he deposes^(B) kings and raises up others.^(C)
He gives wisdom^(D) to the wise
    and knowledge to the discerning.^(E)

²⁶ who carries out the words^(A) of his servants
    and fulfills^(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,^(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,^(D) ‘I will restore them,’^(E)
27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up^(F) your streams,’
²⁸ who says of Cyrus,^(G) ‘He is my shepherd
    and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem,^(H) “Let it be rebuilt,”
    and of the temple,^(I) “Let its foundations^(J) be laid.”’

⁵ Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.^(A)’”

⁶ No one from the east or the west
    or from the desert can exalt themselves.
⁷ It is God who judges:^(B)
    He brings one down, he exalts another.^(C)