Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
The islands have seen, and fear.
The ends of the earth tremble.
They approach, and come.
Everyone helps his neighbor.
They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.
He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;”
and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,