Isaiah 44:24-Isaiah 45:13 - Jerusalem Restored Through Cyrus

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.'"'"

¹ This is what the LORD says to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, as I strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him and gates that cannot keep closed: ² "I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars. ³ I'll give you concealed treasures and riches hidden in secret places, so that you'll know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name. ⁴ For the sake of Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen, I've called you, and he has established you with a name, although you have not acknowledged me. ⁵ I am the LORD, and there is no other besides me: and there are no gods. I'm strengthening you, although you have not acknowledged me, ⁶ so that from the sun's rising to the west people may know that there is none besides me. "I am the LORD, and there is no other." ⁷ "I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

⁸ "Shout, you skies above, and you clouds, and let righteousness stream down. I am the one who says to the earth, "Let salvation blossom, and let righteousness sprout forth.'

⁹ "Woe to the one who quarrels with his makers, a mere potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Woe to the one who says to the one forming him, "What are you making?' or "Your work has no human hands?'! ¹⁰ Woe to the one who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' or to a woman, "To what are you giving birth?'!" ¹¹ This is what the Lord says, the Creator of the signs: "Question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands. ¹² I myself made the earth and personally created humankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the skies; I marshaled all their starry hosts." ¹³ "I have aroused him in righteousness, and I'll make all his pathways smooth. It is he who will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price nor reward, " says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.