I brought relief to all the inhabitants of Babylon and freed them from their humiliation and servitude.

私はバビロンの全住民に平安を与え、屈辱と隷従からこの都市を解放した。

Cyrus the Great

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Cyrus the Great

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 600-530 BC). He absorbed the Median, Lydian, and Neo-Babylonian empires while practising a policy of religious tolerance. The Hebrew Bible names him 'the Lord's anointed'.

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I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners.

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus.

[Cyrus was called] 'father of his people'.

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I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners.

-- Cyrus the Great