2Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
3He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.
5The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
6They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.
7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
