Isaiah 41:4-8

“Who has performed and accomplished it, Summoning the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He.’ ”

The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have approached and have come.

Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, “Be strong!”

So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, “It is good”; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.

“But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,