⁸ Remember this and pluck up courage!
    Call to mind,^[a] you transgressors!
⁹     Remember the former things from a long time ago,^[b]
for I am God and there is none besides me,
    God and there is none like me,
¹⁰ who from the beginning declares the end,
    and from before, things that have not been done,
who says, ‘My plan shall stand,’
    and, ‘I will accomplish^[c] all my wishes,’^[d]
11 who calls a bird of prey from the east,
    the man of his^[e] plan from a country from afar.
Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it to being.
    I have formed it; indeed I will do it.
¹² Listen to me, strong of heart,
    far from righteousness!
¹³ I bring my righteousness near; it is not far.
    And my salvation will not delay;
and I will put^[f] salvation in Zion,
    for Israel my glory.”