^{1 Ref} Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.

^{2 Ref} Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

^{3 Ref} He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

^{4 Ref} Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.