Isaiah 41:14–20

¹⁴You must not fear, O worm of Jacob;

people of Israel,

I myself, I will help you,” declaresⁿ Yahweh,

“and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel.

¹⁵Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge,

with^o sharp edges.

You shall thresh and crush the mountains,

and you shall make the hills like chaff.

¹⁶You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them,

and the tempest shall scatter them.

And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh;

you shall boast in the holy one of Israel.

¹⁷The poor and the needy are seeking water and there is none;

their tongue is dried up with thirst.

I, Yahweh, will answer them;

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

¹⁸I will open rivers on the barren heights

and fountains in the midst of the valleys.

I will make the wilderness like a pool of water

and the land of dryness like springs of water.

¹⁹I will put^p the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness;

I will set the cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert

²⁰so that they may see and know,

and take to heart and understand together

that the hand of Yahweh has done this,

and the holy one of Israel has created it.”