Isa 41:2, 8-9 | ESV | STEP | Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step ? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword , like driven stubble with his bow .

j[See ver. 8 above]

k[See ver. 8 above]

Isaiah 41:2

2 ^aWho stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every ^bstep? ^{▼▼Or whom righteousness calls to follow?}
^dHe gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
^elike driven stubble with his bow.

Isaiah 41:8-9

8 But you, Israel, ^fmy servant,
Jacob, ^gwhom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, ^hmy friend;
9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth,
and called ⁱfrom its farthest corners,
saying to you, “You are ^jmy servant,
^kI have chosen you and not cast you off”;