Fear Not, For I Am with You
1 1Listen to me in silence,
2O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
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3Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every
4step?
5He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword,
6like driven stubble with his bow.
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He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
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7Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning?
8I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
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9The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.
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Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"
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10The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails
11so that it cannot be moved.