Isaiah 40

1 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

to be sorry: comfort to be sorry: comfort people my to say God your

2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

to speak: speak upon heart Jerusalem and to call: call to to(wards) her for to fill army: war her for to accept iniquity: crime her for to take: recieve from hand LORD double in/on/with all sin her

3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

voice to call: call out in/on/with wilderness to turn way: road LORD to smooth in/on/with plain highway to/for God our

4 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

all valley to lift: raise and all mountain: mount and hill to abase and to be [the] steep to/for plain and [the] roughness to/for valley

5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.

and to reveal: reveal glory LORD and to see: see all flesh together for lip LORD to speak: speak

6 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

voice to say to call: call out and to say what? to call: call out all [the] flesh grass and all kindness his like/as flower [the] land: country

7 The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

to wither grass to wither flower for spirit: breath LORD to blow in/on/with him surely grass [the] people

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

to wither grass to wither flower and word God our to arise: establish to/for forever: enduring

9 Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

upon mountain: mount high to ascend: rise to/for you to bear tidings Zion to exalt in/on/with strength voice your to bear tidings Jerusalem to exalt not to fear to say to/for city Judah behold God your

10 Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.

behold Lord YHWH/God in/on/with strong to come (in): come and arm his to rule to/for him behold wages his with him and wages his to/for face: before his

11 He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

like/as to pasture flock his to pasture in/on/with arm his to gather lamb and in/on/with bosom: embrace his to lift: bear to nurse to guide

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

who? to measure in/on/with handful his water and heaven in/on/with span to measure and to sustain in/on/with third dust [the] land: country/planet and to weigh in/on/with balance mountain: mount and hill in/on/with balance

13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

who? to measure [obj] spirit LORD and man counsel his to know him

14 Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

with who? to advise and to understand him and to learn: teach him in/on/with way justice and to learn: teach him knowledge and way: conduct understanding to know him

15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

look! nation like/as drop from bucket and like/as cloud balance to devise: count look! coastland like/as thin to lift

16 Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

and Lebanon nothing sufficiency to burn: burn and living thing his nothing sufficiency burnt offering

17 All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

all [the] nation like/as nothing before him from end and formlessness to devise: count to/for him

18 To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

and to(wards) who? to resemble [emph?] God and what? likeness to arrange to/for him

19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

[the] idol to pour artificer and to refine in/on/with gold to beat him and chain silver: money to refine

20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

[the] to impoverish contribution tree: wood not to rot to choose artificer wise to seek to/for him to/for to establish: establish idol not to shake

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

not to know not to hear: hear not to tell from head: first to/for you not to understand foundation [the] land: country/planet

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

[the] to dwell upon circle [the] land: country/planet and to dwell her like/as locust [the] to stretch like/as curtain heaven and to spread them like/as tent to/for to dwell

23 He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

[the] to give: make to rule to/for nothing to judge land: country/planet like/as formlessness to make

24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

also not to plant also not to sow also not to uproot in/on/with land: country/planet stock their and also to blow in/on/with them and to wither and tempest like/as stubble to lift: bear them

25 “To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

and to(wards) who? to resemble me and be like to say holy

26 Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

to lift: look height eye your and to see: see who? to create these [the] to come out: send in/on/with number army their to/for all their in/on/with name to call: call to from abundance strength and strong strength man not to lack

27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

to/for what? to say Jacob and to speak: speak Israel to hide way: conduct my from LORD and from God my justice my to pass

28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

not to know if: surely no not to hear: hear God forever: enduring LORD to create end [the] land: country/planet not to faint and not be weary/toil nothing search to/for understanding his

29 He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

to give: give to/for weary strength and to/for nothing strength strength to multiply

30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

and to faint youth and be weary/toil and youth to stumble to stumble

31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

and to await LORD to pass strength to ascend: rise wing like/as eagle to run: run and not be weary/toil to go: walk and not to faint