1 Listen to me in silence, O coastlands;let the peoples renew their strength;let them approach, then let them speak;let us together draw near for judgment.
2 Who stirred up one from the eastwhom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him,so that he tramples kings underfoot;he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
3 He pursues them and passes on safely,by paths his feet have not trod.
4 Who has performed and done this,calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first,and with the last; I am he.
5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;the ends of the earth tremble;they have drawn near and come.