Yahweh will help Israel

41 Yahweh says, “You people who live on [APO] islands in the ocean,

be silent in front of me while I ask you some questions!

Then you can be courageous and talk to me.

We will meet together and decide which one of us is right.

2 Who has urged this king to come from the east?

Who has enabled his army to righteously defeat many nations

and to trample their kings under their feet?

With their swords they cut their enemies into tiny pieces [HYP];

with their arrows they cause their enemies to scatter like [SIM] the wind scatters chaff.

3 Even though they march through areas where they have not gone previously,

they pursue their enemies and continue to march, and nothing stops them.

4 Who has enabled rulers to do [DOU] mighty things like that?

Who has done that throughout all generations?

It is I, Yahweh;

I was the first one to do things like that, and I will be the last one to do them.”