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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
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Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
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so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
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Israel’s Only Savior
But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
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everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
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I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.
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“You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it.
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It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.
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For this is what the Lord says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.’
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“See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
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I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created.
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New Heavens and a New Earth
“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
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But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.