²⁶ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(A)
    Who created^(B) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(C) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(D)
    not one of them is missing.^(E)

²⁸ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(A)
The Lord is the everlasting^(B) God,
    the Creator^(C) of the ends of the earth.^(D)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(E)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(F)

²⁰ so that people may see and know,^(A)
    may consider and understand,^(B)
that the hand^(C) of the Lord has done this,
    that the Holy One^(D) of Israel has created^(E) it.

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

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