Jerusalem will be rebuilt and inhabited again

24 Yahweh, who saved you and created you, says this:

“I am Yahweh, the one who created everything.

I am the only one who stretched out the sky.

There was [RHQ] no one who ◄was with/helped► me

when I created the earth.

25 I show that the false prophets are liars,

and I show that those who perform rituals to predict the future are fools.

Some people who falsely think that they are [IRO] wise say that they know a lot,

but I show that they are foolish.

26 But I always cause to happen what my prophets predict [DOU].

I tell them to say to the people of [MTY] Jerusalem, ‘Some day people will live here again.’

And I tell them to say to the people in other towns in Judah that Yahweh says,

‘Your towns will be rebuilt;

I will cause the places that are only ruins to be rebuilt.’

27 When I say to the rivers, ‘Dry up!’,

they will become dry.

28 When I say about King Cyrus, ‘He will take care of my people like [MET] a shepherd takes care of his sheep,

he will do what I want him to do,’

he will say about Jerusalem,

‘We must rebuild it!’,

and he will also say, ‘We must rebuild the temple!’ ”