Isaiah 41:2-10

2Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow.

3He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet.

4Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I [am] HE.

5The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.

6They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Take courage.

7And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.

8But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

9— thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee,

10— Fear not, for I [am] with thee; be not dismayed, for I [am] thy 1God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.