<p class="poetry">Do you not know?p> <p class="poetry">Do you not hear?p> <p class="poetry">Has it not been told to you since the very beginning?p> <p class="poetry">Have you not understood from the time the earth&#8217;s foundations were made?p>

<p class="poetry">Let the desert and its cities shout out,p> <p class="poetry">the towns where the nomads of Kedar live!p> <p class="poetry">Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully;p> <p class="poetry">let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.p>

<p class="poetry">Who acts and carries out decrees?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who<n id="2" /> summons the successive generations from the beginning?p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, am present at the very beginning,p> <p class="poetry">and at the very end &#8211; I am the one.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know?p> <p class="poetry">Who announced it<n id="1" /> ahead of time, so we could say, &#8216;He&#8217;s correct&#8217;?p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, none of them decreed it!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, none of them announced it!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, no one heard you say anything!p>

<p class="poetry">Approach me! Listen to this!p> <p class="poetry">From the very first I have not spoken in secret;p> <p class="poetry">when it happens,<n id="1" /> I am there.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">So now, the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has sent me, accompanied by his spirit.<n id="2" />p>