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   5   I am the Lord, there is no other;
    there is no god beside me.
    I will strengthen you though you have not known me,
   6   so that men from the rising and the setting sun
  may know that there is none but I:
    I am the Lord, there is no other;
     7   I make the light, I create darkness,
    author alike of prosperity and trouble.
I, the Lord, do all these things.


   8   Rain righteousness, you heavens,
  let the skies above pour down;
    let the earth open to receive it,
    that it may bear the fruit of salvation
  with righteousness in blossom at its side.
  All this I, the Lord, have created.


   9   Will the pot contend ^note with the potter,
  or the earthenware ^note with the hand that shapes it?
Will the clay ask the potter what he is making?
  or his ^note handiwork say to him, ‘You have no skill’?
10   Will the babe say ^note to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’,
  or to his mother, ‘What are you bringing to birth?’
11   Thus says the Lord, Israel's Holy One, his maker:
  Would you dare question me concerning my children,
  or instruct me in my handiwork?
   12   I alone, I made the earth
  and created man upon it;
I, with my own hands, stretched out the heavens
  and caused all their host to shine.
   13   I alone have roused this man in righteousness,
    and I will smooth his path before him;
  he shall rebuild my city
    and let my exiles go free—
    not for a price nor for a bribe,
    says the Lord of Hosts.


     14   Thus says the Lord:
    Toilers of Egypt and Nubian merchants
    and Sabaeans bearing tribute ^note
shall come into your power and be your slaves,
shall come and march behind you in chains;

Israel delivered and redeemed
they shall bow down before you in supplication, saying,
‘Surely God is among you and there is no other,
    no other god.
15   How then canst thou be a god that hidest thyself,
    O God of Israel, the deliverer?’


16   Those who defy him ^note are confounded and brought to shame,
those who make idols perish in confusion.
     17   But Israel has been delivered by the Lord,
    delivered for all time to come;
they shall not be confounded or put to shame for all eternity.


18   Thus says the Lord, the creator of the heavens,
    he who is God,
  who made the earth and fashioned it
    and himself fixed it fast,
  who created it no empty void,
    but made it for a place to dwell in:
  I am the Lord, there is no other.
19   I do not speak in secret, in realms of darkness,
  I do not say to the sons of Jacob,
    ‘Look for me in the empty void.’
I the Lord speak what is right, declare what is just.
   20   Gather together, come, draw near,
    all you survivors of the nations,
  you fools, who carry your wooden idols in procession
  and pray to a god that cannot save you.
21   Come forward and urge your case, consult ^note together:
  who foretold this in days of old,
    who stated it long ago?
  Was it not I the Lord?
  There is no god but me;
there is no god other than I, victorious and able to save.
   22   Look to me and be saved,
    you peoples from all corners of the earth;
  for I am God, there is no other.
     23   By my life I have sworn,
  I have given a promise of victory,
    a promise that will not be broken,
  that to me every knee shall bend
    and by me every tongue shall swear.
24   In the Lord alone, men shall say,
    are victory and might;

Israel delivered and redeemed
  and all who defy him
  shall stand ashamed in his presence,
   25   but all the sons of Israel shall stand victorious
    and find their glory in the Lord.

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