Isaiah 41:2-8

2Who has stirred up one from the east? He calls justice to His feet. He gives nations over to him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as driven stubble with his bow.

3He pursues them, passing on safely, by a path his feet had not traveled.

4Who has performed and done it? Calling forth the generations from the beginning, I, Adonai, am the first and the last, I am He!”

5The coastlands have seen and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They draw near and come.

6Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

7The craftsman encourages the smith, who smooths with the hammer, who strikes with the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It’s good!” as he fastens it with nails so that it will not totter.

8“But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, My friend—