Add parallel Print Page Options

25 I show that the false prophets speak useless messages.
I show that those who use magic to say what will happen are fools.
I cause the ideas of wise people to become useless.
    People think that their advice is foolish.
26 But I do the things that my servants say will happen.
    I show that my prophets' messages are true.
I say about Jerusalem, “People will live there again.”
I say about the towns in Judah, “I will cause people to build them again,
    so that they are no longer heaps of stones.”
27 I say to the deep sea, “Become dry!”
    and its streams become dry.

Read full chapter

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,’

Read full chapter