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16 And I have put my words in your mouth
    and hidden you safely in my hand.
I stretched out[a] the sky like a canopy
    and laid the foundations of the earth.
I am the one who says to Israel,
    ‘You are my people!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 51:16 As in Syriac version (see also 51:13); Hebrew reads planted.

16 I have put my words in your mouth(A)
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand(B)
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth,(C)
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.(D)’”

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