Isaiah 41:2-8

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