Isa 44:24 | NETfull | STEP | This is what the Lord , your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord , who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

Isaiah 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

24 This is what the Lord, your protector, ^{▼▼ Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.} says,
the one who formed you in the womb:
“I am the Lord, who made everything,
who alone stretched out the sky,
who fashioned the earth all by myself, ^{▼▼ The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.}