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27 I tell the deep waters, ‘Become dry!
    I will make your streams become dry!’
28 I say of Cyrus,[a] ‘He is my shepherd.
    He will do all that I want him to do.
    He will say to Jerusalem, “You will be built again!”
    He will tell the Temple, “Your foundations will be rebuilt.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. 44:28 Cyrus A king of Persia. He ruled from about 550–530 b.c.

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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