Isaiah 41:8-20 (New International Version)

 ⁸ "But you, O Israel, my servant,
       Jacob, whom I have chosen,
       you descendants of Abraham my friend,

 ⁹ I took you from the ends of the earth,
       from its farthest corners I called you.
       I said, 'You are my servant';
       I have chosen you and have not rejected you.

 ¹⁰ So do not fear, for I am with you;
       do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
       I will strengthen you and help you;
       I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

 ¹¹ "All who rage against you
       will surely be ashamed and disgraced;
       those who oppose you
       will be as nothing and perish.

 ¹² Though you search for your enemies,
       you will not find them.
       Those who wage war against you
       will be as nothing at all.

 ¹³ For I am the LORD, your God,
       who takes hold of your right hand
       and says to you, Do not fear;
       I will help you.

 ¹⁴ Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob,
       O little Israel,
       for I myself will help you," declares the LORD,
       your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

 ¹⁵ "See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,
       new and sharp, with many teeth.
       You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
       and reduce the hills to chaff.

 ¹⁶ You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up,
       and a gale will blow them away.
       But you will rejoice in the LORD
       and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

 ¹⁷ "The poor and needy search for water,
       but there is none;
       their tongues are parched with thirst.
       But I the LORD will answer them;
       I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

 ¹⁸ I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
       and springs within the valleys.
       I will turn the desert into pools of water,
       and the parched ground into springs.

 ¹⁹ I will put in the desert
       the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.
       I will set pines in the wasteland,
       the fir and the cypress together,

 ²⁰ so that people may see and know,
       may consider and understand,
       that the hand of the LORD has done this,
       that the Holy One of Israel has created it.