5 I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will strengthen you,though you do not know Me,
6 so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its settingthat there is no one but Me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other.
7 I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I, Yahweh, do all these things.
8 “Heavens, sprinkle from above,and let the skies shower righteousness. Let the earth open upso that salvation will sproutand righteousness will spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
9 “Woe to the one who argues with his Maker —one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it,‘What are you making?’ Or does your work say,‘He has no hands’?
10 How absurd is the one who says to his father,‘What are you fathering?’or to his mother,‘What are you giving birth to? ’ ”
11 This is what the Lord,the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says:“Ask Me what is to happen to My sons, and instruct Me about the work of My hands.