And in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth.
In the eighteenth year, on the twenty-second day of the first month, word went around in Nebuchadnezzar's palace that, as he had declared, he intended to take revenge on the whole earth.
