28  Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is ^jthe everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

^khis understanding is unsearchable.

5  Thus says God, the Lord,

who created the heavens ^mand stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and what comes from it,

ⁿwho gives breath to the people on it

and spirit to those who walk in it:

15  I am the Lord, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.”

18  ^vFor thus says the Lord,

who created the heavens

(he is God!),

who formed the earth and made it

(he established it;

he ^wdid not create it empty,

^xhe formed it to be inhabited!):

“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

19  ^wcreating ^xthe fruit of the lips.

^yPeace, peace, ^zto the far and to the near,” says the Lord,

^u“and I will heal him.

17  “For behold, ^kI create new heavens

and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered

or come into mind.