The cosmic consequences—'I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools'—depict wholesale environmental transformation. The destruction of physical landmarks that seem permanent and unchangeable suggests that nothing escapes God's ability to reshape. The drying of rivers and pools inverts the water imagery of chapter 41, suggesting that transformation can move in different directions according to divine purpose. This verse's dramatic language asserts that restoration involves cosmic renewal, not merely political adjustment.

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