(A)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    (B)I equip you, though you do not know me,
(C)that people may know, from the rising of the sun
    and from the west, that there is none besides me;
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I form light and create darkness;
    I make well-being and (D)create calamity;
    I am the Lord, who does all these things.

(E)“Shower, O heavens, from above,
    and (F)let the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
    let the earth cause them both to sprout;
    I the Lord have created it.

(G)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
    a pot among earthen pots!
(H)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

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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,
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.
I form the light and create darkness,(G)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;(H)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

“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.

“Woe to those who quarrel(L) with their Maker,(M)
    those who are nothing but potsherds(N)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(O)
    ‘What are you making?’(P)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?(Q)
10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
    ‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
    ‘What have you brought to birth?’

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