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25     who frustrates the omens of diviners
        and makes a mockery of magicians,
    who turns back the wise
        and turns their knowledge into folly.
26     But who confirms the word of my[a] servant,
        and fulfills the predictions of my messengers;
    who says about Jerusalem, “It will be resettled”;
        and who says about the cities of Judah, “They will be rebuilt,
        and I will restore their ruins”;
27         who says to the ocean depths,
    “Dry up; I will dry your streams”;

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  1. Isaiah 44:26 Or his; also in next line

25 who foils(A) the signs of false prophets
    and makes fools of diviners,(B)
who overthrows the learning of the wise(C)
    and turns it into nonsense,(D)
26 who carries out the words(E) of his servants
    and fulfills(F) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,(G) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,(H) ‘I will restore them,’(I)
27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up(J) your streams,’

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