Es 41 (King James)

   ¹ Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. ² Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. ³ He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. ⁴ Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. ⁵ The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. ⁶ They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. ⁷ So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. ⁸ But thou, Israel, art 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 thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
   ¹⁰ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. ¹¹ Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. ¹² Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. ¹³ For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. ¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. ¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷ When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. ¹⁸ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. ¹⁹ I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: ²⁰ That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
   ²¹ Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. ²² Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. ²³ Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. ²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. ²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. ²⁶ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. ²⁷ The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. ²⁸ For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. ²⁹ Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Es 41 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Taceant ad me insulæ,
et gentes mutent fortitudinem :
accedant, et tunc loquantur ;
simul ad judicium propinquemus.
   ² Quis suscitavit ab oriente Justum,
vocavit eum ut sequeretur se ?
Dabit in conspectu ejus gentes,
et reges obtinebit :
dabit quasi pulverem gladio ejus,
sicut stipulam vento raptam arcui ejus.
   ³ Persequetur eos, transibit in pace :
semita in pedibus ejus non apparebit.
   ⁴ Quis hæc operatus est, et fecit,
vocans generationes ab exordio ?
Ego Dominus :
primus et novissimus ego sum.
   ⁵ Viderunt insulæ, et timuerunt ;
extrema terræ obstupuerunt :
appropinquaverunt, et accesserunt.
   ⁶ Unusquisque proximo suo auxiliabitur,
et fratri suo dicet : Confortare.
   ⁷ Confortavit faber ærarius
percutiens malleo
eum, qui cudebat tunc temporis,
dicens : Glutino bonum est ;
et confortavit eum clavis, ut non moveretur.]
   ⁸ [Et tu, Israël, serve meus,
Jacob quem elegi,
semen Abraham amici mei :
   ⁹ in quo apprehendi te ab extremis terræ,
et a longinquis ejus vocavi te,
et dixi tibi : Servus meus es tu :
elegi te, et non abjeci te.
   ¹⁰ Ne timeas, quia ego tecum sum ;
ne declines, quia ego Deus tuus :
confortavi te, et auxiliatus sum tibi,
et suscepit te dextera Justi mei.
   ¹¹ Ecce confundentur et erubescent
omnes qui pugnant adversum te ;
erunt quasi non sint, et peribunt
viri qui contradicunt tibi.
   ¹² Quæres eos, et non invenies,
viros rebelles tuos ;
erunt quasi non sint, et veluti consumptio
homines bellantes adversum te.
   ¹³ Quia ego Dominus Deus tuus,
apprehendens manum tuam,
dicensque tibi : Ne timeas :
ego adjuvi te.
   ¹⁴ Noli timere, vermis Jacob,
qui mortui estis ex Israël :
ego auxiliatus sum tibi, dicit Dominus,
et redemptor tuus Sanctus Israël.
   ¹⁵ Ego posui te quasi plaustrum triturans novum,
habens rostra serrantia ;
triturabis montes, et comminues,
et colles quasi pulverem pones.
   ¹⁶ Ventilabis eos, et ventus tollet,
et turbo disperget eos ;
et tu exsultabis in Domino,
in Sancto Israël lætaberis.
   ¹⁷ Egeni et pauperes
quærunt aquas, et non sunt ;
lingua eorum siti aruit.
Ego Dominus exaudiam eos,
Deus Israël, non derelinquam eos.
   ¹⁸ Aperiam in supinis collibus flumina,
et in medio camporum fontes :
ponam desertum in stagna aquarum,
et terram inviam in rivos aquarum.
   ¹⁹ Dabo in solitudinem cedrum,
et spinam, et myrtum, et lignum olivæ ;
ponam in deserto abietem,
ulmum, et buxum simul :
   ²⁰ ut videant, et sciant,
et recogitent, et intelligant pariter,
quia manus Domini fecit hoc,
et Sanctus Israël creavit illud.
   ²¹ Prope facite judicium vestrum,
dicit Dominus ;
Afferte, si quid forte habetis,
dicit rex Jacob.
   ²² Accedant, et nuntient nobis
quæcumque ventura sunt ;
priora quæ fuerunt, nuntiate,
et ponemus cor nostrum,
et sciemus novissima eorum ;
et quæ ventura sunt, indicate nobis.
   ²³ Annuntiate quæ ventura sunt in futurum,
et sciemus quia dii estis vos ;
bene quoque aut male, si potestis, facite,
et loquamur et videamus simul.
   ²⁴ Ecce vos estis ex nihilo,
et opus vestrum ex eo quod non est :
abominatio est qui elegit vos.
   ²⁵ Suscitavi ab aquilone, et veniet ab ortu solis :
vocabit nomen meum,
et adducet magistratus quasi lutum,
et velut plastes conculcans humum.
   ²⁶ Quis annuntiavit ab exordio ut sciamus,
et a principio ut dicamus : Justus es ?
Non est neque annuntians, neque prædicens,
neque audiens sermones vestros.
   ²⁷ Primus ad Sion dicet : Ecce adsunt,
et Jerusalem evangelistam dabo.
   ²⁸ Et vidi,
et non erat neque ex istis quisquam
qui iniret consilium,
et interrogatus responderet verbum.
   ²⁹ Ecce omnes injusti,
et vana opera eorum ;
ventus et inane simulacra eorum.]