5. I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me;
6. --that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the going down, that there is none beside me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else;
7. forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
8. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it.
9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?
10. Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?
11. Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.
12. It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it; it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13. It is I that have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.