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I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things.

For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens, he is God, who formed the earth and who made it. He himself established it; he did not create it as emptiness— he formed it for inhabiting. "I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.

I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain!' I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness.

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me.

Even to your old age I am he; even to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you.

Remember the former things from a long time ago, for I am God and there is none besides me, God and there is none like me,

Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children."

And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "No one sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one."

"Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last.

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, leads you in the way you should go.

And now Yahweh says, who formed me from the womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might not be gathered, for I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength.

And kings shall be your guardians, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, faces to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.

And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob."

"I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed as grass!

For I am Yahweh, your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name.

Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. Here am I."

"O afflicted one, driven away, who is not consoled. Look! I am about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.

And do not let the foreigner who joins himself to Yahweh say, "Surely Yahweh will separate me from his people." And do not let the eunuch say, "Look! I am a dry tree!"

Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am!' If you remove from among you the yoke, the finger-pointing and evil speech,

And you shall suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob.