Jerusalem’s ruins will rise

24Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.

25who frustrates the signs of liars and makes diviners act like fools, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

26who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt,’ and ‘I will raise up her ruins.’

27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers,’