‘This is what the Lord says –
    your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:

I am the Lord,
    the Maker of all things,
    who stretches out the heavens,
    who spreads out the earth by myself,
25 who foils the signs of false prophets
    and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
    and turns it into nonsense,
26 who carries out the words of his servants
    and fulfils the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem, “It shall be inhabited,”
    of the towns of Judah, “They shall be rebuilt,”
    and of their ruins, “I will restore them,”
27 who says to the watery deep, “Be dry,
    and I will dry up your streams,”
28 who says of Cyrus, “He is my shepherd
    and will accomplish all that I please;
he will say of Jerusalem, ‘Let it be rebuilt,’
    and of the temple, ‘Let its foundations be laid.’”

There is a clear emphasis in these verses on God’s powerful Word.

Verse 26a is about GOD’S ACCURATE WORD. We are face to face with fulfilled prophecy again.

John Piper writes, in ‘A Peculiar Glory’: ‘His predictions are certain, not mainly because he foresees without error, but because he executes without fail’ p.233.

Biblical prophecy is accurate not only because God sees history in advance, but He oversees history. He is Sovereign over it. ‘History is His Story.’

Verses 26b-28b show us GOD’S CREATIVE WORD. My mind travels back to Genesis 1 where God said (decreed it) and it happened. ‘Just one WORD from the King changes everything!’

God spoke through His prophets concerning the repopulation of Jerusalem, and at the right time He brought it about. We might say He spoke it into existence (just as He did with the universe itself).