⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

¹⁹ God is not human,^(A) that he should lie,^(B)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.^(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise^(D) and not fulfill?

⁸ The grass withers and the flowers^(A) fall,
    but the word^(B) of our God endures^(C) forever.^(D)”

¹³ Be exalted^(A) in your strength, Lord;^(B)
    we will sing and praise your might.

¹⁴ And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper^(A) we hear of him!^(B)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^(C)

² Listen!^(A) Listen to the roar of his voice,^(B)
    to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.^(C)
3 He unleashes his lightning^(D) beneath the whole heaven
    and sends it to the ends of the earth.^(E)

⁸ He alone stretches out the heavens^(A)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.^(B)

¹⁹ Your path^(A) led through the sea,^(B)
    your way through the mighty waters,
    though your footprints were not seen.