Isaiah 41:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷ And the artisan encourages the goldsmith,^[a]
    the one who makes smooth with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good!”
    And they strengthen it with nails so it cannot be knocked over.
⁸ But^[b] you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen,
    you, the offspring^[c] of Abraham my friend,^[d]
9 you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth
    and called from its remotest parts
and told, “You are my servant;
    I have chosen you and I have not rejected you.”