²¹ Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(A)
Has it not been told^(B) you from the beginning?^(C)
    Have you not understood^(D) since the earth was founded?^(E)
22 He sits enthroned^(F) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(G)
He stretches out the heavens^(H) like a canopy,^(I)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(J) to live in.^(K)
23 He brings princes^(L) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.^(M)
24 No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(N) in the ground,
than he blows^(O) on them and they wither,^(P)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(Q)

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?^(R)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.^(S)
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(T)
    Who created^(U) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(V) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(W)
    not one of them is missing.^(X)

²⁷ Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(Y)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(Z)
The Lord is the everlasting^(AA) God,
    the Creator^(AB) of the ends of the earth.^(AC)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(AD)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(AE)

¹⁰ “You are my witnesses,^(A)” declares the Lord,
    “and my servant^(B) whom I have chosen,
so that you may know^(C) and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
Before me no god^(D) was formed,
    nor will there be one after me.^(E)
11 I, even I, am the Lord,^(F)
    and apart from me there is no savior.^(G)
12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—
    I, and not some foreign god^(H) among you.
You are my witnesses,^(I)” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
¹³     Yes, and from ancient days^(J) I am he.^(K)
No one can deliver out of my hand.
    When I act, who can reverse it?”^(L)

⁸ “Remember^(A) this, keep it in mind,
    take it to heart, you rebels.^(B)
9 Remember the former things,^(C) those of long ago;^(D)
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.^(E)
10 I make known the end from the beginning,^(F)
    from ancient times,^(G) what is still to come.^(H)
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,^(I)
    and I will do all that I please.’
¹¹ From the east I summon^(J) a bird of prey;^(K)
    from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that I will bring about;
    what I have planned,^(L) that I will do.^(M)