[41:1] 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.
[41:2] Who stirred up one from the east whom 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.
[41:3] He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
[41:4] Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
[41:5] The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
[41:6] Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
[41:7] 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.
[41:8] But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
[41:9] you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;
[41:10] fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
[41:11] Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
[41:12] You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
[41:13] For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
[41:14] Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
[41:15] Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
[41:16] you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
[41:17] When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
[41:18] I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
[41:19] I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,
[41:20] that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.