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 to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare has been completed, That her punishment has been accepted, That she has received from the hand of YHWH 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 is crying in a wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, Make straight in a desert a highway for our God.
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 is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place has become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
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 YHWH has been revealed, And all flesh have seen [it] together, For the mouth of YHWH has spoken.”
and to reveal: reveal glory LORD and to see: see all flesh together for lip LORD to speak: speak
6 A voice is saying, “Call,” And he said, “What do I call?” All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodness [Is] as a flower 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 Grass has withered, the flower faded, For the Spirit of YHWH blew on it, Surely the people [is] grass;
to wither grass to wither flower for spirit: breath LORD to blow in/on/with him surely grass [the] people
8 Grass has withered, the flower faded, But a word of our God rises forever.
to wither grass to wither flower and word God our to arise: establish to/for forever: enduring
9 Get up on a high mountain, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up your voice with power, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, do not fear, say to cities of Judah, “Behold, 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, Lord YHWH comes with strength, And His arm is ruling for Him, Behold, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before 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 feeds His flock as a shepherd, He gathers lambs with His arm, And He carries [them] in His bosom: He leads suckling ones.
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, And has meted out the heavens by a span, And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, And has weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in 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 meted out the Spirit of YHWH, And [being] His counselor, teaches Him?
who? to measure [obj] spirit LORD and man counsel his to know him
14 With whom [did] He consult, That he causes Him to understand? And teaches Him in the path of judgment, And teaches Him knowledge? And causes Him to know 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 Behold, nations [are] as a drop from a bucket, And have been reckoned as small dust of the balance, Behold, He takes up islands as a small thing.
look! nation like/as drop from bucket and like/as cloud balance to devise: count look! coastland like/as thin to lift
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient 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, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
all [the] nation like/as nothing before him from end and formlessness to devise: count to/for him
18 And to whom do you liken God, And what likeness do you compare to Him?
and to(wards) who? to resemble [emph?] God and what? likeness to arrange to/for him
19 An artisan has poured out the carved image, And a refiner spreads it over with gold, And he is refining chains of silver.
[the] idol to pour artificer and to refine in/on/with gold to beat him and chain silver: money to refine
20 He who is poor [by] raised-offerings, Chooses a tree [that is] not rotten, He seeks a skillful artisan for it, To establish a carved image—not moved.
[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—do you not hear? Has it not been declared from the first to you? Have you not understood [From] the foundations 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 who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out the heavens as a thin thing, And spreads them as 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 who is making princes become nothing, Has made judges of earth formless;
[the] to give: make to rule to/for nothing to judge land: country/planet like/as formlessness to make
24 Indeed, they have not been planted, Indeed, they have not been sown, Indeed, their stock is not taking root in the earth, And He has also blown on them, and they wither, And a whirlwind takes them away as 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 And to whom do you liken Me, And [to whom] I equal? Says the Holy One.
and to(wards) who? to resemble me and be like to say holy
26 Lift up your eyes on high, And see—who has created these? He who is bringing out their host by number, He calls to all of them by name, By the abundance of His strength And mighty power, Not one is lacking.
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 say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way has been hid from YHWH, And from my God my judgment passes over?”
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 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The God of the age—YHWH, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.
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 is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increases might.
to give: give to/for weary strength and to/for nothing strength strength to multiply
30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,
and to faint youth and be weary/toil and youth to stumble to stumble
31 But those expecting YHWH pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do 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
