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Who has aroused victory from the east,
    and[a] has summoned it to his service,
        and[b] has handed over nations to him?
Who brings down kings,
    and[c] turns them into dust with his sword,
        into windblown stubble with his bow?
And[d] who pursues them
    and[e] moves on unscathed
        by a path that his feet don’t know?[f]
Who has performed and carried this out,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord—the first
    and will be with the last
        —I am the One!”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and
  2. Isaiah 41:2 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
  3. Isaiah 41:2 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
  4. Isaiah 41:3 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
  5. Isaiah 41:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and
  6. Isaiah 41:3 So 1QIsaa; MT reads travel

“Who has stirred(A) up one from the east,(B)
    calling him in righteousness(C) to his service[a]?(D)
He hands nations over to him
    and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust(E) with his sword,
    to windblown chaff(F) with his bow.(G)
He pursues them and moves on unscathed,(H)
    by a path his feet have not traveled before.
Who has done this and carried it through,
    calling(I) forth the generations from the beginning?(J)
I, the Lord—with the first of them
    and with the last(K)—I am he.(L)

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  1. Isaiah 41:2 Or east, / whom victory meets at every step