Isaiah 42:5

This is what the true God, ¹  the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, ²  the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it: ³ 

Ge 1:10-12,24,25; Ge 2:7; Job 12:10; Job 27:3; Job 33:4; Job 34:14; Ps 24:1,2; Ps 33:6; Ps 102:25,26; Ps 104:2-35; Ps 136:6; Isa 40:12,22,28; Isa 44:24; Isa 45:12,18; Isa 48:13; Jer 10:12; Jer 32:17; Da 5:23; Am 9:6; Zec 12:1; Ac 17:25; Heb 1:2,10-12

¹ tn Heb “the God.” The definite article here indicates distinctiveness or uniqueness.

² tn Heb “and its offspring” (so NASB); NIV “all that comes out of it.”

³ tn Heb “and spirit [i.e., “breath”] to the ones walking in it” (NAB, NASB, and NRSV all similar).