1Keep silence before me, O islands;
2Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
3He pursued them, and passed safely;
4Who hath wrought and done it,
5The isles saw it, and feared;
6They helped every one his neighbour;
7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
8But thou, Israel, art my servant,
9Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
10Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded:
12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee:
13For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand,
14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel;
15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:
16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none,
18I will open rivers in high places,
19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
21Produce your cause, saith the Lord;
22Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen:
23Shew the things that are to come hereafter,
24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought:
25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come:
26Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?
27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them:
28For I beheld, and there was no man;
29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: