Isaiah 41:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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