Isaiah 41:2-8

2Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

3He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.

4Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

5The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

6Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

7The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;