1Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.⇆ compare2Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.⇆ compare3He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.⇆ compare4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.⇆ compare5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.⇆ compare6They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.⇆ compare7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.⇆ compare8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.⇆ compare9Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.⇆ compare10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.⇆ compare11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.⇆ compare12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.⇆ compare13For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.⇆ compare14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.⇆ compare15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.⇆ compare16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.⇆ compare17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.⇆ compare18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.⇆ compare19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:⇆ compare20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.⇆ compare21Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.⇆ compare22Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.⇆ compare23Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.⇆ compare24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooseth you.⇆ compare25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.⇆ compare26Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and formerly, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.⇆ compare27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.⇆ compare28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.⇆ compare29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.⇆ compare