²⁸ who says about Cyrus, “He’s my shepherd,
    and he’ll carry out everything that I please:
He’ll say of Jerusalem, ‘Let it be rebuilt,’
    and of my^[a] Temple, ‘Let its foundations be laid again.’”’”

45 This is what the Lord says to his anointed, Cyrus,
    whose right hand I have grasped
to subdue nations before him,
    as I strip kings of their armor,^[a]
to open doors^[b] before him
    and gates that cannot keep closed: