The .xlj. Chapter.
2 Of the goodnesse and mercy of God towarde the people.
[unspec A] 1 BE styll you (a) 1.1 Ilandes and hearken vnto me: let the people lay their strength together, let them come hither, and then shew their cause: we will go to the lawe together.
2 Who raysed vp the (b) 1.2 iust man from the east, and called hym to go foorth? who cast downe the people, and subdued the kynges before him? that he may throw them al to the ground with his sworde, and scatter them lyke stubble with his bowe.
3 He foloweth vpon them, and goeth safely him selfe, & that in a way where before his foote had not troden.
4 Who hath made and created these thinges? euen he that called the genera∣tions from the beginning, * 1.3 euen I the Lorde whiche am the first, and with the last.
5 The Isles sawe and did feare, and the endes of the earth were abashed, drewe nye, and came hither.
6 Euery man helped his neighbour, and sayd to his brother, be strong.
7 The carpenter comforted the gold∣smith, [unspec B] and the goldsmith the hammer∣man, saying, sowder wyll do very well in it: and they fastened it with nayles, that it shoulde not be moued.
8 But thou Israel art my seruaunt, thou Iacob whom I haue chosē, thou art the seede of Abraham my beloued.
9 Thou art he whom I led from the endes of the earth: for I called thee euen from among the glorious men of it, and sayd vnto thee, Thou art my ser∣uaunt, I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 * 1.4Be not afraide, for I am with thee: Melt not away as waxe, for I am thy God to strength thee, helpe thee, and kepe thee with the right hande of my righteousnesse.
11 Beholde, all they that resist thee shall come to confusion and shame, and thine aduersaries shalbe destroyed & brought to naught.
12 So that who so seeketh after them, shall not finde them, thy destroyers shall perishe: and so shall they that vn∣dertake to make battayle against thee be as that is not, & as a thing of naught.