6. so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its settingthat there is no one but Me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other.
7. I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, Yahweh, do all these things.
8. “Heavens, sprinkle from above,and let the skies shower righteousness. Let the earth open upso that salvation will sproutand righteousness will spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
9. “Woe to the one who argues with his Maker —one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it,‘What are you making?’ Or does your work say,‘He has no hands’?
10. How absurd is the one who says to his father,‘What are you fathering?’or to his mother,‘What are you giving birth to? ’ ”