Isaiah 44:21-28 ▼

21 |Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you; you are a servant to me. Israel, you must not mislead me.

22 I've wiped away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; because I've redeemed you.

23 |Shout for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout aloud, you depths of the earth! Burst out with singing, you mountains, you forest, and all your trees! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and will display his glory in Israel.

24 |This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer and the one who formed you in the womb: 'I am the LORD, who has made everything, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth— Who was with me at that time?—

25 who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;

26 who carries out the words of his servants, and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, |It will be inhabited,| and of Judah's cities, |They will be rebuilt,| and of her ruins, |I'll raise them up|;

27 who says to the watery deep, |Be dry— I will dry up your rivers;|

28 who says about Cyrus, |He's my shepherd, and he'll carry out everything that I please: He'll say of Jerusalem, 'Let it be rebuilt,' and of my Temple, 'Let its foundations be laid again.'|'|