Isaiah 41:7-9

Young's Literal Translation

⁷ And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother [with] a hammer, Him who is beating [on] an anvil, Saying, `For joining it [is] good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

⁸ -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

⁹ Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou [art], I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.