Do Not Fear, for I Am with You
“aCoastlands, listen to Me bin silence,
And let the peoples cgain new power;
dLet them come forward, then let them speak;
eLet us draw near together for judgment.
2 aWho has awakened one from the east
Whom He bcalls in righteousness to His feet?
He cgives up nations before him
And has dominion over kings.
He makes them like ddust with his sword,
As the wind‑driven echaff with his bow.
3 He pursues them, passing on in peace,
By a way he had not come with his feet.
4 aWho has worked and done it,
Calling forth the generations from the beginning?
‘bI, Yahweh, am the first; and with the last, cI am He.’”
5 The acoastlands have seen and are afraid;
The bends of the earth tremble;
They have drawn near and have come.
6 Each one helps his neighbor
And says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 So the acraftsman strengthens the bsmelter,
And he who smooths metal with the hammer strengthens him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
And he strengthens it with nails,
cSo that it will not be shaken.
8 “But you, Israel, aMy servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Seed of bAbraham My cfriend,
9 You whom I have astrongly taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
And called from its bremotest parts
And said to you, ‘You are cMy servant,
I have dchosen you and not rejected you.