²⁴ So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, ^(A)You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

¹⁷ ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, ^(A)You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. ^(B)There is nothing too ^[a]hard for You.

The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁶ “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You ^(A)alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ^17 (B)Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and ^(C)hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. ¹⁸ Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their ^(D)lands, ¹⁹ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were ^(E)not gods, but the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. ²⁰ Now therefore, O Lord our God, ^(F)save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may ^(G)know that You are the Lord, You alone.”