Isaiah 42

1 Behold, My servant, I take hold on Him, My Chosen One—My soul has accepted, I have put My Spirit on Him, He brings forth judgment to nations.

look! servant/slave my to grasp in/on/with him chosen my to accept soul my to give: put spirit my upon him justice to/for nation to come out: send

2 He does not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

not to cry and not to lift: loud and not to hear: hear in/on/with outside voice his

3 A bruised reed He does not break, And faded flax He does not quench, He brings forth judgment to truth.

branch: stem to crush not to break and flax faint not to quench her to/for truth: faithful to come out: send justice

4 He does not become weak nor bruised, Until He sets judgment in the earth, And islands wait with hope for His law.

not to grow dim and not to crush till to set: make in/on/with land: country/planet justice and to/for instruction his coastland to wait: hope

5 Thus said God, YHWH, Creating the heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

thus to say [the] God LORD to create [the] heaven and to stretch them to beat [the] land: country/planet and offspring her to give: give breath to/for people upon her and spirit to/for to go: walk in/on/with her

6 I, YHWH, called you in righteousness, And I lay hold on your hand, and keep you, And I give you for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

I LORD to call: call to you in/on/with righteousness and to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand your and to watch you and to give: give you to/for covenant people to/for light nation

7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth the bound one from prison, Those sitting in darkness from the house of restraint.

to/for to open eye blind to/for to come out: send from locksmith prisoner from house: home prison to dwell darkness

8 I [am] YHWH, this [is] My Name, And I do not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

I LORD he/she/it name my and glory my to/for another not to give: give and praise my to/for idol

9 The former things, behold, have come, And I am declaring new things, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.

[the] first: previous behold to come (in): come and new I to tell in/on/with before to spring to hear: proclaim [obj] you

10 Sing a new song to YHWH, His praise from the end of the earth, You who are going down to the sea, and its fullness, Islands, and their inhabitants.

to sing to/for LORD song new praise his from end [the] land: country/planet to go down [the] sea and fullness his coastland and to dwell their

11 The wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], Kedar inhabits the villages, The inhabitants of Sela sing, They cry from the top of mountains.

to lift: loud wilderness and city his village to dwell Kedar to sing to dwell Sela from head: top mountain: mount to cry aloud

12 They ascribe to YHWH glory, And they declare His praise in the islands.

to set: put to/for LORD glory and praise his in/on/with coastland to tell

13 YHWH goes forth as a mighty one. He stirs up zeal as a man of war, He cries, indeed, He shrieks, He shows Himself mighty against His enemies.

LORD like/as mighty man to come out: come like/as man battle to rouse jealousy to shout also to cry upon enemy his to prevail

14 I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain Myself, I cry out as a travailing woman, I desolate and swallow up together.

be silent from forever: antiquity be quiet to refrain like/as to beget to groan to pant and to long for unitedness

15 I make desolate mountains and hills, And I dry up all their herbs, And I have made rivers become islands, And I dry up ponds.

to destroy mountain: mount and hill and all vegetation their to wither and to set: make river to/for coastland and pool to wither

16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, I cause them to tread in paths they have not known, I make a dark place become light before them, And unleveled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

and to go: take blind in/on/with way: direction not to know in/on/with path not to know to tread them to set: make darkness to/for face: before their to/for light and crooked place to/for plain these [the] word: thing to make: do them and not to leave: forsake them

17 Removed backward—utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a carved image, Those saying to a molten image, “You [are] our gods.”

to turn back be ashamed shame [the] to trust in/on/with idol [the] to say to/for liquid you(m. p.) God our

18 You deaf, hear; and you blind, look to see.

[the] deaf to hear: hear and [the] blind to look to/for to see: see

19 Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Indeed, blind, as the servant of YHWH?

who? blind that if: except if: except servant/slave my and deaf like/as messenger my to send: depart who? blind like/as to ally and blind like/as servant/slave LORD

20 Seeing many things, and you do not observe, Opening ears, and he does not hear.

(to see: see *Q(K)*) many and not to keep: look at to open ear and not to hear: hear

21 YHWH has delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifies law, and makes honorable.

LORD to delight in because righteousness his to magnify instruction and be glorious

22 And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes—all of them, And they were hidden in houses of restraint, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, “Restore.”

and he/she/it people to plunder and to plunder to ensnare in/on/with cavern all their and in/on/with house: home prison to hide to be to/for plunder and nothing to rescue plunder and nothing to say to return: rescue

23 Who among you gives ear [to] this? Attends, and hears afterward?

who? in/on/with you to listen this to listen and to hear: hear to/for back

24 Who has given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not YHWH—He against whom we sinned? Indeed, they have not been willing to walk in His ways, Nor have they listened to His law.

who? to give: give (to/for plunder *Q(K)*) Jacob and Israel to/for to plunder not LORD this to sin to/for him and not be willing in/on/with way: conduct his to go: walk and not to hear: obey in/on/with instruction his

25 And He pours fury on him, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it sets him on fire all around, And he has not known, And it burns against him, and he does not lay it to heart!

and to pour: pour upon him rage face: anger his and strength battle and to kindle him from around and not to know and to burn: burn in/on/with him and not to set: consider upon heart