Isaiah 41:2-4

New International Version - UK

² ‘Who has stirred up one from the east,
    calling him in righteousness to his service?^[a]
He hands nations over to him
    and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,
    to wind-blown chaff with his bow.
³ He pursues them and moves on unscathed,
    by a path his feet have not travelled before.
⁴ Who has done this and carried it through,
    calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord – with the first of them
    and with the last – I am he.’