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26 Lift up your eyes on high
    and see who created[a] these:
He leads out their army and numbers them,
    calling them all by name.
By his great might and the strength of his power
    not one of them is missing!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40:26 Created: see note on Gn 1:1–2:3. By name: for he is their Creator.

26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:(A)
    Who created(B) all these?
He who brings out the starry host(C) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,(D)
    not one of them is missing.(E)

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One shall say, “I am the Lord’s,”
    another shall be named after Jacob,
And this one shall write on his hand,[a] “The Lord’s,”
    and receive the name Israel.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 44:5 Write on his hand: an allusion to the Babylonian custom of tattooing the owner’s name on the hand of his slave.

Some will say, ‘I belong(A) to the Lord’;
    others will call themselves by the name of Jacob;
still others will write on their hand,(B) ‘The Lord’s,’(C)
    and will take the name Israel.

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