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Now everyone from east to west
will learn that I am the Lord.
    No other gods are real.
I create light and darkness,
happiness and sorrow.
    I, the Lord, do all this.

Tell the heavens
to send down justice
    like showers of rain.
Prepare the earth
    for my saving power
to sprout and produce justice
    that I, the Lord, create.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 45.8 Prepare … create: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting(A)
people may know(B) there is none besides me.(C)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
I form the light and create darkness,(D)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;(E)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

“You heavens above, rain(F) down my righteousness;(G)
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation(H) spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

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