⁷ He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
he hangs the earth on nothing.

¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says—
the Creator of the heavens,
the God who formed the earth and made it,
the one who established it
(he did not create it to be a wasteland,
but formed it to be inhabited)^(A)—
he says, “I am the Lord,
and there is no other.