I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Thus says God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you did not hear them; lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'