¹⁵ Let death take my enemies by surprise;^(A)
    let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,^(B)
    for evil finds lodging among them.

³ Is it not ruin^(A) for the wicked,
    disaster^(B) for those who do wrong?^(C)

²² How long will you wander,^(A)
    unfaithful^(B) Daughter Israel?
The Lord will create a new thing^(C) on earth—
    the woman will return to^[a](D) the man.”

¹² It is I who made the earth^(A)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(B)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(C)

⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(C)

²¹ The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim,^(A)
    he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon^(B)—
to do his work,^(C) his strange work,
    and perform his task, his alien task.