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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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That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

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