Isaiah 51

1 “Listen to Me, you pursuing righteousness, Seeking YHWH, Look attentively to the rock—you have been hewn, And to the hole of the pit—you have been dug.

to hear: hear to(wards) me to pursue righteousness to seek LORD to look to(wards) rock to hew and to(wards) hole pit to dig

2 Look attentively to your father Abraham, And to Sarah—she brings you forth, For—one—I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.”

to look to(wards) Abraham father your and to(wards) Sarah to twist: give birth you for one to call: call to him and to bless him and to multiply him

3 For YHWH has comforted Zion, He has comforted all her ruins, And He sets her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of YHWH, Joy, indeed, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

for to be sorry: comfort LORD Zion to be sorry: comfort all desolation her and to set: make wilderness her like/as Eden and plain her like/as garden LORD rejoicing and joy to find in/on/with her thanksgiving and voice melody

4 “Attend to Me, O My people, And, O My nation, give ear to Me. For a law goes out from Me, And My judgment to the light, I cause peoples to rest.

to listen to(wards) me people my and people my to(wards) me to listen for instruction from with me to come out: speak and justice my to/for light people to rest

5 My righteousness [is] near, My salvation has gone out, And My arms judge peoples, Islands wait on Me, Indeed, on My arm they wait with hope.

near righteousness my to come out: come salvation my and arm my people to judge to(wards) me coastland to await and to(wards) arm my to wait: hope [emph?]

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look attentively to the earth beneath, For the heavens have vanished as smoke, And the earth wears out as a garment, And its inhabitants die as gnats, And My salvation is for all time, And My righteousness is not broken.

to lift: look to/for heaven eye your and to look to(wards) [the] land: country/planet from underneath: under for heaven like/as smoke to dissipate and [the] land: country/planet like/as garment to become old and to dwell her like gnat to die [emph?] and salvation my to/for forever: enduring to be and righteousness my not to to be dismayed

7 Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart [is] My law, Do not fear the reproach of men, And do not be frightened of their reviling,

to hear: hear to(wards) me to know righteousness people instruction my in/on/with heart their not to fear reproach human and from reviling their not to to be dismayed

8 For a moth eats them as a garment, And a worm eats them as wool, And My righteousness is for all time, And My salvation from generation to generation.”

for like/as garment to eat them moth and like/as wool to eat them moth and righteousness my to/for forever: enduring to be and salvation my to/for generation generation

9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH, Awake, as [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Are You not it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon?

to rouse to rouse to clothe strength arm LORD to rouse like/as day front: old generation forever: antiquity not you(f. s.) he/she/it [the] to hew Rahab monster to bore serpent: monster

10 Are You not it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That has made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?

not you(f. s.) he/she/it [the] to dry sea water abyss many [the] to set: make deep sea way: road to/for to pass to redeem: redeem

11 And the ransomed of YHWH return, And they have come to Zion with singing, And continuous joy [is] on their head, They attain gladness and joy, Sorrow and sighing have fled away,

and to ransom LORD to return: return [emph?] and to come (in): come Zion in/on/with cry and joy forever: enduring upon head their rejoicing and joy to overtake [emph?] to flee sorrow and sighing

12 “I [am] He who comforts you, Who [are] you—and you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of man—he is made [like] grass!

I I he/she/it to be sorry: comfort you who? you(f. s.) and to fear from human to die and from son: child man grass to give: make

13 And you forget YHWH your Maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And you continually fear all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he has prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?

and to forget LORD to make you to stretch heaven and to found land: country/planet and to dread continually all [the] day from face of rage [the] to press like/as as which to establish: establish to/for to ruin and where? rage [the] to press

14 A wanderer has hurried to be loosed, And he does not die in the pit, And his bread is not lacking.

to hasten to march to/for to open and not to die to/for Pit: hell and not to lack food: bread his (questioned)

15 And I [am] your God YHWH, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.

and I LORD God your to disturb [the] sea and to roar heap: wave his LORD Hosts name his

16 And I put My words in your mouth, And have covered you with the shadow of My hand, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, You [are] My people.”

and to set: put word my in/on/with lip your and in/on/with shadow hand: power my to cover you to/for to plant heaven and to/for to found land: country/planet and to/for to say to/for Zion people my you(m. s.)

17 Stir yourself, stir yourself, rise, Jerusalem, You who have drunk from the hand of YHWH The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, you have drunk, You have wrung out.

to rouse to rouse to arise: establish Jerusalem which to drink from hand LORD [obj] cup rage his [obj] dreg cup [the] reeling to drink to drain

18 There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she has borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she has nourished.

nothing to guide to/for her from all son: child to beget and nothing to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand her from all son: child to magnify

19 These two are meeting you, Who is moved for you? Spoiling and destruction, famine and sword! By whom do I comfort you?

two they(fem.) to encounter: chanced you who? to wander to/for you [the] violence and [the] breaking and [the] famine and [the] sword who? to be sorry: comfort you

20 Your sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as an antelope [in] a dragnet, They are full of the fury of YHWH, The rebuke of Your God.

son: child your to enwrap to lie down: lay down in/on/with head: top all outside like/as antelope net [the] full rage LORD rebuke God your

21 Therefore, please hear this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

to/for so to hear: hear please this afflicted and be drunk and not from wine

22 Thus said your Lord YHWH, and your God, He pleads [for] His people: “Behold, I have taken the cup of trembling out of your hand, The goblet, the cup of My fury, You do not add to drink it anymore.

thus to say lord your LORD and God your to contend people his behold to take: take from hand your [obj] cup [the] reeling [obj] dreg cup rage my not to add: again to/for to drink her still

23 And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting you, Who have said to your soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And you make your body as the earth, And as the street to those passing by!”

and to set: put her in/on/with hand to suffer you which to say to/for soul: myself your to bow and to pass and to set: make like/as land: soil back your and like/as outside to/for to pass