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,