Isaiah 13:17

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.

“Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? Yahweh loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media,

“For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off; they have gone away!

“Therefore her young men will fall in her open squares, And all her men of war will be silenced in that day,” declares Yahweh.

“They seize their bow and javelin; They are cruel and have no compassion. Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, Arranged like a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

“This is the interpretation of the message: ‘MENE’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

“‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”