1Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
2Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
3He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.
4Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.
5The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
6They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!
7So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
