Isaiah 41:1-9 ▼

1 Hold a feast to me, ye islands: for the princes shall renew their strength: let them draw nigh and speak together: then let them declare judgement.

2 Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

3 And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

4 Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to all futurity, I AM.

5 The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,

6 every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

7 The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

8 But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:

9 whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee.