13 For I, the Lord your God,

hold your right hand;

it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I will help you.”

14 Fear not, you worm Jacob,

you men of Israel!

I will help you, says the Lord;

your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

15 Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge,

new, sharp, and having teeth;

you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,

and you shall make the hills like chaff;

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

and the tempest shall scatter them.

And you shall rejoice in the Lord;

in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

17 When 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.

18 I 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.

19 I 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;

20 that men may see and know,

may consider and understand together,

that the hand of the Lord has done this,

the Holy One of Israel has created it.