Isaiah 41:14–20

¹⁴Do not fear, you worm Jacob,

you maggot^s Israel!

I will help you, says the Lord;

your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.^*

¹⁵I will make of you a threshing sledge,

sharp, new, and having teeth;

you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,

and you shall make the hills like chaff.^*

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

and the tempest shall scatter them.

Then you shall rejoice in the Lord;

in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.^*

¹⁷When the poor and needy seek water,

and there is none,

and their tongue is parched with thirst,

I the Lord will answer them,

I the God of Israel will not forsake them.^*

¹⁸I will open rivers on the bare heights

and fountains in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool of water

and the dry land springs of water.^*

¹⁹I will put in the wilderness the cedar,

the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive;

I will set in the desert the cypress,

the plane and the pine together,

²⁰so that all may see and know,

all may consider and understand,

that the hand of the Lord has done this,

the Holy One of Israel has created it.^*