Isaiah 44:25-28 ▼

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.'|'|