³⁹ Look now; I myself am he!
    There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
    I am the one who wounds and heals;
    no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!

⁶ The Lord gives both death and life;
    he brings some down to the grave^[a] but raises others up.

¹⁸ For though he wounds, he also bandages.
    He strikes, but his hands also heal.

⁵ I am the Lord;
    there is no other God.
I have equipped you for battle,
    though you don’t even know me,

⁴ I will be your God throughout your lifetime—
    until your hair is white with age.
I made you, and I will care for you.
    I will carry you along and save you.

²² Let all the world look to me for salvation!
    For I am God; there is no other.

¹³ “From eternity to eternity I am God.
    No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.
    No one can undo what I have done.”

¹⁸ For the Lord is God,
    and he created the heavens and earth
    and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
    not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the Lord,” he says,
    “and there is no other.

²⁰ Our God is a God who saves!
    The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.