⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting^(A)
people may know^(B) there is none besides me.^(C)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(D)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(E)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

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

¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
    he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,^(A)
    he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,^(B)
    but formed it to be inhabited^(C)—
he says:
“I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.^(D)

²¹ Declare what is to be, present it—
    let them take counsel together.
Who foretold^(A) this long ago,
    who declared it from the distant past?^(B)
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no God apart from me,^(C)
a righteous God^(D) and a Savior;^(E)
    there is none but me.

²² “Turn^(F) to me and be saved,^(G)
    all you ends of the earth;^(H)
    for I am God, and there is no other.^(I)
23 By myself I have sworn,^(J)
    my mouth has uttered in all integrity^(K)
    a word that will not be revoked:^(L)
Before me every knee will bow;^(M)
    by me every tongue will swear.^(N)
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance^(O) and strength.^(P)’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.^(Q)
25 But all the descendants^(R) of Israel
    will find deliverance^(S) in the Lord
    and will make their boast in him.^(T)