⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

²² For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

²⁴ Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;