Isaiah 41:1-9 ▼

1 “Be silent before Me, O islands, and the peoples will renew their strength; let them draw near, then let them speak; together let us come near for judgment.

2 Who has roused one from the east? Righteousness calls him at His feet; He gives the nations before his face, and he subdues kings; he makes them like dust with his sword, driven away as stubble by his bow.

3 He pursues them, passing over in peace, a path he does not enter with his feet.

4 Who has worked and accomplished? The One calling the generations from the beginning: “I am YHWH, the first and the last; I am He!”

5 The islands have seen it and feared; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward:

6 Each man helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong.”

7 And the craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, the one smoothing with the hammer, the one striking the anvil, saying of the joining, “It is Good!”—And he strengthens it with nails, and it will not be toppled.

8 “And you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, seed of Abraham My friend,

9 whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and called you from its corners, and said to you ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you’—