“You heavens above, rain down my righteousness;
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

I see in these words a picture of ‘revival’.

Notice how genuine revival cannot be humanly manufactured. It comes by God’s decree. When God says ‘let’ a thing happen, then it does. God speaks a move of God into existence, as with creation at the beginning.

‘Saved’ people are enabled to live right (righteously). Salvation is not a plant that grows up alone in God’s garden; righteousness grows with it.

Our great need is for God’s righteousness. When we put our faith in Jesus He gifts it to us. We are given a right standing (relationship) with Himself, and out of this we are enabled to live right.

To put this into context: we have seen that Cyrus was a ‘temporary’ Messiah, preparing the way for the real Messiah, who was still to come. He (Jesus) will bring in this era of righteousness, forming a community of saved people who live right in the world.