[44] ²⁴ THUS says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth […] who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;  ²⁷ who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, I will dry up your rivers’;  ²⁸ who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfil all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

[45] THUS says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:  ² “I will go before you and level the mountains […] I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me,  6 that all may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.  ⁷ I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the LORD, who do all these things.”