Isaiah 41:1-4

English Standard Version

^2 (C)Who stirred up one from the east
    whom victory meets at every ^(D)step?^[a]
(E)He gives up nations before him,
    so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
    ^(F)like driven stubble with his bow.
³ He pursues them and passes on safely,
    by paths his feet have not trod.
^4 (G)Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
^(H)I, the Lord, the first,
    and with the last; I am he.