⁸ Who has ever heard of such things?
    Who has ever seen^(A) things like this?
Can a country be born in a day^(B)
    or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
    than she gives birth to her children.^(C)

¹⁰ Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus^(A) and look,
    send to Kedar^[a](B) and observe closely;
    see if there has ever been anything like this:

¹¹ Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods^(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious^(B) God
    for worthless idols.