realm. He introduces God, the Redeemer of his people, as the Creator of heaven and earth (44:24). God overthrows the magic incantations and spells and the mantic oracles of the nations (v. 25) but confirms his own Word as spoken by the prophets (v. 26). His purpose will be fulfilled, even if it requires the miraculous drying up of streams (v. 27) or the raising up of Cyrus the Persian (v. 28). Isaiah proclaimed Yahweh as the only God, who, by his fiat creation, has shown his absolute claim over everything