1"Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. 2Who has raised up one from the east? 3He pursues them, 4Who has worked and done it, 5The islands have seen, and fear. 6Everyone helps his neighbor. 7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. 8"But you, Israel, my servant, 9You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, 10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. 11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. 12You will seek them, and won't find them, 13For I, JEHOVAH your God, will hold your right hand, 14Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, 15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. 16You will winnow them, 17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, 19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. 20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, 21Produce your cause," says JEHOVAH. 22"Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. 23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, 24Behold, you are of nothing, 25"I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; 26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? 27I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' 28When I look, there is no man; 29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing.