⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other;^(A)
    apart from me there is no God.^(B)
I will strengthen you,^(C)
    though you have not acknowledged me,
⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting^(D)
people may know^(E) there is none besides me.^(F)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(G)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(H)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

⁸ “You heavens above, rain^(I) down my righteousness;^(J)
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation^(K) spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

¹¹ “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One^(A) of Israel, and its Maker:^(B)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?^(C)

¹² It is I who made the earth^(A)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(B)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(C)