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27 I say to the deep, Be dry!
    I will dry up your rivers.(A)
28 I say of Cyrus,[a] My shepherd!
    He carries out my every wish,
Saying of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,”
    and of the temple, “Lay its foundations.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 44:28 Cyrus: king of Persia (559–529 B.C.); cf. note on 41:1–4.

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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