Isaiah 41:1-7

Darby Translation

41 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.