Isaiah 45:5-12

New King James Version

⁵I ^(A)am the Lord, and ^(B)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
^(C)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
⁶^(D)That they may ^(E)know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
⁷I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and ^(F)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’

⁸“Rain^(G) down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the Lord, have created it.

⁹“Woe to him who strives with ^(H)his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
^(I)Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
¹⁰Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”

¹¹Thus says the Lord,
The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
^(J)“Ask Me of things to come concerning ^(K)My sons;
And concerning ^(L)the work of My hands, you command Me.
¹²^(M)I have made the earth,
And ^(N)created man on it.
I—My hands—stretched out the heavens,
And ^(O)all their host I have commanded.