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

Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?^(B)
14 When times are good, be happy;
    but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
    as well as the other.^(C)
Therefore, no one can discover
    anything about their future.

⁶ When a trumpet^(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster^(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?^(C)

⁷ It is God who judges:^(A)
    He brings one down, he exalts another.^(B)

¹³ He who forms the mountains,^(A)
    who creates the wind,^(B)
    and who reveals his thoughts^(C) to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth^(D)—
    the Lord God Almighty is his name.^(E)

he who appoints^(A) the sun
    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,^(B)
who stirs up the sea^(C)
    so that its waves roar^(D)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name:^(E)

⁸     but with an overwhelming flood^(A)
he will make an end of Nineveh;
    he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.