Isaiah 40

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

Comfort you, comfort you my people, says God.

2 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

Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double [the amount of] her sins.

3 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

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

4 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

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked [ways] shall become straight, and the rough [places] plains.

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

And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken [it].

6 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

The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:

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

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

The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.

9 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

O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Juda, Behold your God!

10 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

Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and [his] arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and [his] work before him.

11 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

He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

12 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

Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

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

Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

14 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

Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

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

since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, [and] shall be counted as spittle?

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

And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:

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

and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

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

To whom have you compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you compared him?

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

Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, [and] made it a similitude?

20 [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

For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.

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

Will you not know? will you not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have you not known the foundations of the earth?

22 [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

[It is] he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched [it] out as a tent to dwell in:

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

he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

24 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

For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

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

Now then to whom have you compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy One.

26 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

Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [even] he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by [means of his] great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.

27 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

For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel, [saying], My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away [my] judgement, and has departed?

28 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

And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

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

He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

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

For the young [men] shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice [men] shall be powerless:

31 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

but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.