Isaiah 41:1-9 ▼

1 Be silent to me, ye islands; and the people shall change strength: they shall draw near; then shall they speak: together we will come near for judgment.

2 Who raised up justice from the sunrising? he shall call him to his foot; he will give the nations before him; and he will bring down kings: he will give as the dust of his sword, as driven straw, his bow.

3 He will pursue them, he will pass over in peace; the path he will not come in with his feet.

4 Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.

5 The isles saw, and they will be afraid; the extremities of the earth will tremble; they drew near and they will come.

6 They will help a man his neighbor, and he will say to his brother, Be strong.

7 And the artificer will strengthen the founder, he making smooth with the hammer, he beating the anvil, saying, It is good for the welding; he will strengthen it with nails; it shall not totter.

8 And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved:

9 Whom I held thee fast from the extremities of the earth, and I called thee from its sides, and saying to thee, Thou my servant; I chose thee, and I rejected thee not.