18For this is what the Lord says, He who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it 45:18 LXX in vainas a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited):
18For 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),
18For the Lord, who created the heavens 45:18 Longer parenthetical passages such as this one are in the Hebrew text, and should not be confused with the general use of parentheses as a way to define or modify the previous word or group of words.(He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this,