5. I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will strengthen you,though you do not know Me,
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.