⁴ Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am first
    and will be with the last.^(A)

²⁹ No, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their images are empty wind.^(A)

¹⁰ You are my witnesses, says the Lord,
    and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.^(A)

²⁴ They do not say in their hearts,
    “Let us fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain in its season,
    the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
    the weeks appointed for the harvest.”^(A)

³ For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down
    and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;^(A)

²⁶ It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.^(A)