⁵ They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the ^(A)foundations of the earth are ^[a]unstable.

⁶ I said, ^(B)“You are ^[b]gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High.
⁷ But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.”

⁷ “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.

¹¹ “And ^(A)of whom have you been afraid, or feared,
That you have lied
And not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to your heart?
Is it not because ^(B)I have ^[a]held My peace from of old
That you do not fear Me?

¹² “I, even I, am He ^(A)who comforts you.
Who are you that you should be afraid
^(B)Of a man who will die,
And of the son of a man who will be made ^(C)like grass?
¹³ And ^(D)you forget the Lord your Maker,
^(E)Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth;
You have feared continually every day
Because of the fury of the oppressor,
When he has prepared to destroy.
^(F)And where is the fury of the oppressor?