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.
6 Everyone helps his neighborand says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,saying of the soldering, “It is good”;and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.
8 But you, Israel, my servant,Jacob, whom I have chosen,the offspring of Abraham, my friend;