27 He saith to the [a]deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy floods.

28 He saith to [b]Cyrus, Thou art my shepherd, and he shall perform all my desire: saying also to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built, and to the Temple, Thy foundation shall be surely laid.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:27 He showeth that God’s work should be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the sea.
  2. Isaiah 44:28 To assure them of their deliverance, he nameth the person by whom it should be, more than an hundred years before he was born.

27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up(A) your streams,’
28 who says of Cyrus,(B) ‘He is my shepherd
    and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem,(C) “Let it be rebuilt,”
    and of the temple,(D) “Let its foundations(E) be laid.”’

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