1. Keep silent before Me, O islands,and let the peoples renew their strength.Let them come near, then let them speak;let us come near together to judgment.
2. Who raised up the righteous man from the east,called him to His foot,gave the nations before him,and made him rule over kings?He makes them as the dust with his sword,and as driven stubble with his bow.
3. He pursued them, and passed safely,by paths his feet have not traveled.
4. Who has performed and done this,calling the generations from the beginning?I, the Lord, am the first,and with the last. I am He.
5. The coastlands saw it and feared,the ends of the earth were afraid;they drew near and came.