6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you 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.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What do you beget? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.