6. so they may know, from the rising to the setting of the sun, that there is no one besides Me. I am Adonai—there is no other.
7. I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.
8. “Rain down, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down justice. Let the earth open up, let salvation sprout, and righteousness spring up with it. I, Adonai, have created it.”
9. Oy , to one who quarrels with his Maker, like a pot among the pots of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What have you made?” Or does your work say, “It has no handles”?
10. Oy , to him who says to his father, “What have you begotten?” Or to a woman, “What have you born?”
11. Thus says Adonai, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, “Ask Me about the things to come upon My children. Then you will commit to Me the work of My hands.
12. I made the earth and created man on it. My hands stretched out the heavens and I commanded all their host.
13. “I stirred Cyrus up in righteousness and I will level all his roads. He will build My city and set My exiles free, with no price or bribe,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
14. Thus says Adonai: “Egypt’s toil, Ethiopia’s merchandise, and the tall Sabeans will come over to you and be yours. They will walk behind you in chains. They will bow down to you, and pray, saying, ‘Surely God is with you!’ There is none else— no other God!”
15. Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!
16. All of them will be ashamed, disgraced— idol-makers go in dishonor together.
17. Israel has been saved by Adonai with an everlasting salvation. You will not be put to shame or disgraced, for ever and ever.
18. For thus says Adonai— He is God who fashioned the heavens, who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it desolate but formed it to be inhabited— “I am Adonai—there is no other!”