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.

¹² It is I who made the earth^(A)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(B)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(C)
13 I will raise up Cyrus^[a](D) in my righteousness:
    I will make all his ways straight.^(E)
He will rebuild my city^(F)
    and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,^(G)
    says the Lord Almighty.”

“The products^(H) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,^[b]
    and those tall Sabeans^(I)—
they will come over to you^(J)
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,^(K)
    coming over to you in chains.^(L)
They will bow down before you
    and plead^(M) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,^(N) and there is no other;
    there is no other god.^(O)’”

¹⁷ But Israel will be saved^(A) by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;^(B)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,^(C)
    to ages everlasting.