¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited- he says: "I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord , who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place , but formed it to be inhabited ), "I am the Lord , and there is none else .

¹⁸ For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it,—not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited:—I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.