Isaiah 40
1 to be sorry: comfort to be sorry: comfort people my to say God your
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your 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 ye [comfort] to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out unto her, that her time of sorrow is accomplished, that her iniquity is atoned for; for she hath received from the hand of the Lord double for all 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
A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for 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 raised, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made a straight path, and the rough places a plain:
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 be revealed; and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath 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
A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:
7 to wither grass to wither flower for spirit: breath LORD to blow in/on/with him surely grass [the] people
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.
8 to wither grass to wither flower and word God our to arise: establish to/for forever: enduring
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God will stand firm 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
Upon a high mountain get thee up, thou that bringest good tidings to Zion; lift up with strength thy voice, thou who bringest good tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, [here is] 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 Eternal will come with might, and his arm ruleth for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense 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
Like a shepherd will he feed his flock: with his arm will he gather the lambs, and in his bosom will he carry them, will he lead gently those that suckle their 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 hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprised in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the scale-beam the mountains, and the hills in balances?
13 who? to measure [obj] spirit LORD and man counsel his to know him
Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord? and [who was] his counsellor that he could have given him information?
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
With whom took he counsel, that he gave him understanding, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and caused him to know 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
Behold, nations are as a drop out of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance are they accounted: behold, isles are like the flying dust.
16 and Lebanon nothing sufficiency to burn: burn and living thing his nothing sufficiency burnt offering
And Lebanon is not sufficient for burning, and its beasts do not suffice for burnt-offering.
17 all [the] nation like/as nothing before him from end and formlessness to devise: count to/for him
All the nations are as naught before him; less than nothing, and vanity are they accounted to him.
18 and to(wards) who? to resemble [emph?] God and what? likeness to arrange to/for him
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 [the] idol to pour artificer and to refine in/on/with gold to beat him and chain silver: money to refine
The graven image the artificer hath cast and the goldsmith hath overspread it with gold, and fabricated [on it] silver chains.
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
He that is skilled in the choice chooseth a wood that will not rot; he seeketh unto himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, that shall 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
Know ye not? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not paid attention to 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 dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them 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
That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity.
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
Yes, they were not yet planted; yea, they were not yet sown; yea, their stem had not yet taken root in the earth: when he but breathed upon them, and they withered, and the storm-wind carrieth them away as stubble.
25 and to(wards) who? to resemble me and be like to say holy
To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith 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 hath created these? he that bringeth out their host by number; that calleth them all by name; from the Mighty One not one escapeth.
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
Why wilt thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the Lord, and my cause hath passed from the cognizance of my God?
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
Dost thou not know? hast thou not heard? The God of everlasting is the Lord, is the Creator of the ends of the earth; he will not be faint and weary; unsearchable is his understanding.
29 to give: give to/for weary strength and to/for nothing strength strength to multiply
He giveth to the faint strength; and to the powerless he imparteth much might.
30 and to faint youth and be weary/toil and youth to stumble to stumble
Though youths should grow faint and be weary, and young men should utterly stumble:
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
Yet they that wait upon the Lord shall acquire new strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk, and not become faint.
