1. Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us draw near together to judgment.
2. Who 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.
3. He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had never come with his feet.
4. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I am HE.
5. The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came.
6. They helped every one his neighbour, and each said to his brother, Take courage.
7. And 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.
8. But 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 God I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.