I form light and create darkness;
    I make well-being and (A)create calamity;
    I am the Lord, who does all these things.

(B)“Shower, O heavens, from above,
    and (C)let the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
    let the earth cause them both to sprout;
    I the Lord have created it.

(D)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
    a pot among earthen pots!
(E)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
    or ‘Your work has no handles’?

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