⁴⁴ “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan,
    leaping on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Babylon from its land,
    and I will appoint the leader of my choice.
For who is like me, and who can challenge me?
    What ruler can oppose my will?”

¹⁹ I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan,
    leaping on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Edom from its land,
    and I will appoint the leader of my choice.
For who is like me, and who can challenge me?
    What ruler can oppose my will?”

²⁰ Listen to the Lord’s plans against Edom
    and the people of Teman.
Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep,
    and their homes will be destroyed.
²¹ The earth will shake with the noise of Edom’s fall,
    and its cry of despair will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.^[a]

⁹ Remember the things I have done in the past.
    For I alone am God!
    I am God, and there is none like me.

¹⁰ “But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord.
    “You are my servant.
You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,
    and understand that I alone am God.
There is no other God—
    there never has been, and there never will be.

²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?
    Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.

⁶ For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord?
    What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord?

¹¹ “Who is like you among the gods, O Lord—
    glorious in holiness,
awesome in splendor,
    performing great wonders?

³⁸ He has left his den like a strong lion seeking its prey,
    and their land will be made desolate
by the sword^[a] of the enemy
    and the Lord’s fierce anger.

¹¹ I will call a swift bird of prey from the east—
    a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding.
I have said what I would do,
    and I will do it.

²⁵ “But I have stirred up a leader who will approach from the north.
    From the east he will call on my name.
I will give him victory over kings and princes.
    He will trample them as a potter treads on clay.