1 Isles, be still to me, and folks change strength; nigh they, and then speak they; nigh we together to doom.10 Dread thou not, for I am with thee; bow thou not away, for I am thy God. I comforted thee, and helped thee; and the right hand of my just [or rightwise] man up-took thee.11 Lo! all men shall be shamed, and shall be ashamed, that fight against thee; they shall be as if they be not, and men shall perish, that against-say thee.12 Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find thy rebel men; they shall be as if they be not, and as the wasting of a man fighting against thee.13 For I am thy Lord God, taking thine hand, and saying to thee, Dread thou not, I helped thee.14 Do not thou, worm of Jacob, dread, ye that be dead of Israel. I helped thee, saith the Lord, and thine again-buyer, the Holy of Israel.15 I have set thee as a new wain threshing, having sawing bills; thou shalt thresh mountains, and shalt make small, and thou shalt set little hills as dust.16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall take them away, and a whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt make full out joy in the Lord, and thou shalt be glad in the Holy of Israel.17 Needy men and poor seek waters, and those be not; the tongue of them dried for thirst. I the Lord shall hear them, I God of Israel shall not forsake them.18 I shall open floods in high hills, and wells in the midst of fields; I shall set the desert into ponds of waters, and the land without a way into rivers of waters.19 I shall give in wilderness a cedar, and a thorn, and a myrtle tree, and the tree of an olive; I shall set in the desert a fir tree, an elm, and a box tree together.2 Who raised the just [or rightwise] man from the east, and called him to follow himself? He shall give folks in his sight, and he shall wield kings; he shall give as dust to his sword, and as stubble ravished of the wind to his bow.20 That they see, and know, and bethink, and understand together; that the hand of the Lord did this thing, and the Holy of Israel made that of nought.21 Make ye nigh your doom, saith the Lord; bring ye, if in hap ye have anything, saith the King of Jacob.22 Nigh, and tell to us, whatever things shall come; tell ye the former things that were, and we shall set our heart, and shall know; show ye to us the last things of them, and those things that shall come.23 Tell ye what things shall come in time to coming [or to come], and we shall know, that ye be gods; also do ye well, either evil, if ye may; and speak we, and see we together.24 Lo! ye be of nought, and your work is of that that is not; he that choose you, is abomination.25 I raised from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun; he shall call my name. And he shall bring magistrates as clay, and as a potter defouling [the] earth.26 Who told from the beginning, that we know, and from the beginning, that we say, Thou art just? none is telling, neither before-saying, neither hearing your words.27 The first shall say to Zion, Lo! I am present; and I shall give a gospeller to Jerusalem.28 And I saw, and none was of these, that took counsel, and he that was asked, answered a word.29 Lo! all men be unjust, and their works be wind and vain; the simulacra of them be wind, and void thing.3 He shall pursue them, he shall go in peace; a path shall not appear in his feet.4 Who wrought and did these things? calling generations at the beginning. I am the Lord; and I am the first, and the last.5 Isles saw, and dreaded; the last parts of [the] earth were astonied; they came nigh, and nighed.6 Each man shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother, Be thou comforted.7 A smith of metal smiting with an hammer comforted him that polished, either made fair, in that time, saying, It is good to [the] glue; and he fastened him with nails, that he should not be moved.8 And thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I chose, the seed of Abraham, my friend,9 in whom I took thee; from the last parts of [the] earth, and from the far parts thereof I called thee; and I said to thee, Thou art my servant; I chose thee, and casted not away thee.