2 Who has stirred up one from the east? He calls justice to His feet. He gives nations over to him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as driven stubble with his bow.
3 He pursues them, passing on safely, by a path his feet had not traveled.
4 Who has performed and done it? Calling forth the generations from the beginning, I, Adonai, am the first and the last, I am He!”
5 The coastlands have seen and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They draw near and come.
6 Each one helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 The craftsman encourages the smith, who smooths with the hammer, who strikes with the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It’s good!” as he fastens it with nails so that it will not totter.
8 “But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, My friend—