Isaiah 41:7-9

Darby Translation

⁷ And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.

⁸ But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

⁹ —thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee,