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26 But what my prophets say, I do; when they say Jerusalem will be delivered and the cities of Judah lived in once again—it shall be done! 27 When I speak to the rivers and say, “Be dry!” they shall be dry. 28 When I say of Cyrus,[a] “He is my shepherd,” he will certainly do as I say; and Jerusalem will be rebuilt and the Temple restored, for I have spoken it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:28 This was written many years before Cyrus began his meteoric rise to power.

26 who carries out the words(A) of his servants
    and fulfills(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,(D) ‘I will restore them,’(E)
27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up(F) your streams,’
28 who says of Cyrus,(G) ‘He is my shepherd
    and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem,(H) “Let it be rebuilt,”
    and of the temple,(I) “Let its foundations(J) be laid.”’

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