1Be silent unto me, O ye Coastlands, lands, And let the Races of Men renew their strength,Let them approach, then, let them speak, Together, for controversy, let us draw near: 2Who roused up one from the East, In righteousness, called him to his feet,Set before him nations And over kings, caused him to rule, His sword, made like dust, His bow like driven chaff: 3He pursued them passed along safely,Upon the path of his own feet, entered he not? 4Who hath wrought and performed, Calling the generations, in advance? I, Yahweh, First, And with them who are last, I, am the Same! 5Coastlands have seen, so they fear, The ends of the earth, are in dread,They have drawn near, and have come: 6Every man, to his neighbour, giveth help,And to his brother, saith Take courage! 7So, the carver, hath encouraged, the goldsmith, he that maketh smooth with the hammer, him that smiteth the anvil,Saying of the welding, It is, good, Then hath he fastened it with nailsit must not totter! 8But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,The seed of Abraham my loving one; 9Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And from the extremities thereof, have called thee,And said to thee, My Servant, thou! I have chosen thee and not cast thee off, 10Do not fear, for with thee, I am! Look not around, for, I, am thy God,I have emboldened thee, Yea I have helped thee, Yea I have upheld thee with my righteous right-hand. 11Lo! they shall turn pale and be ashamedAll they who have been incensed against thee,They shall become as nothing and perishThe men who have been thine accusers: 12Thou shalt seek them, but shalt not find themThe men who have contended with thee, They shall become as nothing, and as a thing of noughtThe men who have warred against thee; 13For I, Yahweh thy God am firmly grasping thy right-hand,Who am saying unto thee Do not fear! I, have become thy helper! 14Do not fear, Thou worm Jacob, Ye men of Israel,I, have become thy helper, Declareth Yahweh, And thy redeemer The Holy One of Israel. 15Lo! I have made of thee a new pointed threshing sledge, owning teeth,Thou shalt thresh mountains and crush them, And, hillslike chaff, shalt thou make: 16Thou shalt fan them and, a wind, shall carry them away, And, a whirlwind, scatter, them,But, thou, shalt exult in Yahweh, And, in the Holy One of Israel, shalt thou boast thyself. 17As for the oppressed and the needy. Seeking water when there is none, Their tongue with thirst being parched IYahweh, will answer them, The God of Israel, I will not forsake them: 18I will open, On bare hills rivers, and In the midst of plains, fountains,I will make The desert, a lake of water, and Parched land, springs of water; 19I will set in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree,I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm-oak, and sherbin-cedar, together 20That men may see and observe and consider and understand at once, That, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this, That the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 21Bring near your contention, Saith Yahweh,Advance your defences, Saith the King of Jacob: 22Let them advance them, and tell us, What shall happen,Things known in advancewhat they were, tell ye, That we may lay them to our heart and mark the after-story of them, Or, things yet to come, let us hear: 23Tell ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are,Surely ye must do somethinggood or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once. 24Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath,An abomination, he that chooseth you! 25I have roused up one from the North, and he hath come, From the rising of the sun, calleth he on my Name,And he hath come, on deputies, as though they were mortar, And as a potter treadeth clay. 26Who hath told in advance, that we might know, And beforetime, that we might say Right! Nay, there is none who can tell. Nay, there is none who can let us hear, Nay, there is none who can understand what ye utter. 27He who is First, , To Zion, Lo! there they are! And to Jerusalem, A herald of good-tidings, do I give. 28So I look, And there is not, a Man! Even among these And there is none to advise,That, when I ask them, can answer a word. 29Lo! as to all of them, Vanitynothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!