Isaiah 41
1 be quiet to(wards) me coastland and people to pass strength to approach: approach then to speak: speak together to/for justice: judgement to present: come
“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
2 who? to rouse from east righteousness to call: call to him to/for foot his to give: give to/for face: before his nation and king to rule to give: do like/as dust sword his like/as stubble to drive bow his
Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
3 to pursue them to pass peace: well-being way in/on/with foot his not to come (in): come
He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.
4 who? to work and to make: do to call: call to [the] generation from head: first I LORD first and with last I he/she/it
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last— I am He.”
5 to see: see coastland and to fear end [the] land: country/planet to tremble to present: come and to come [emph?]
The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.
6 man: anyone [obj] neighbor his to help and to/for brother: male-sibling his to say to strengthen: strengthen
Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 and to strengthen: strengthen artificer [obj] to refine to smooth hammer [obj] to smite beat to say to/for joint pleasant he/she/it and to strengthen: strengthen him in/on/with nail not to shake
The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
8 and you(m. s.) Israel servant/slave my Jacob which to choose you seed: children Abraham to love: friend me
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
9 which to strengthen: prevail over you from end [the] land: country/planet and from chief her to call: call to you and to say to/for you servant/slave my you(m. s.) to choose you and not to reject you
I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
10 not to fear for with you I not to gaze for I God your to strengthen you also to help you also to grasp you in/on/with right righteousness my
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
11 look! be ashamed and be humiliated all [the] to be incensed in/on/with you to be like/as nothing and to perish human strife your
Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
12 to seek them and not to find them human strife your to be like/as nothing and like/as end human battle your
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
13 for I LORD God your to strengthen: hold right your [the] to say to/for you not to fear I to help you
For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.
14 not to fear worm Jacob man Israel I to help you utterance LORD and to redeem: redeem your holy Israel
Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15 behold to set: make you to/for threshing sled sharp new master: owning tooth to tread mountain: mount and to crush and hill like/as chaff to set: make
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
16 to scatter them and spirit: breath to lift: bear them and tempest to scatter [obj] them and you(m. s.) to rejoice in/on/with LORD in/on/with holy Israel to boast: boast
You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 [the] afflicted and [the] needy to seek water and nothing tongue their in/on/with thirst be dry I LORD to answer them God Israel not to leave: forsake them
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 to open upon bareness river and in/on/with midst valley spring to set: make wilderness to/for pool water and land: country/planet dryness to/for exit water
I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
19 to give: put in/on/with wilderness cedar acacia and myrtle and tree oil to set: make in/on/with plain cypress elm and boxtree together
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
20 because to see: see and to know and to set: consider and be prudent together for hand: power LORD to make: do this and holy Israel to create her
so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
21 to present: come strife your to say LORD to approach: bring defense your to say king Jacob
“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
22 to approach: bring and to tell to/for us [obj] which to meet [the] first: previous what? they(fem.) to tell and to set: consider heart our and to know end their or [the] to come (in): come to hear: proclaim us
“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.
23 to tell [the] to come to/for back and to know for God you(m. p.) also be good and be evil and to gaze (and to see: seer *Q(K)*) together
Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
24 look! you(m. p.) from nothing and work your from worthless abomination to choose in/on/with you
Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
25 to rouse from north and to come from east sun to call: call to in/on/with name my and to come (in): come ruler like homer and like to form: potter to trample mud
I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.
26 who? to tell from head: first and to know and from to/for face: before and to say righteous also nothing to tell also nothing to hear: proclaim also nothing to hear: hear word your
Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
27 first to/for Zion behold look! they and to/for Jerusalem to bear tidings to give: give
I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.
28 and to see: see and nothing man and from these and nothing to advise and to ask them and to return: reply word: speaking
When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
29 look! all their evil: trouble end deed their spirit: breath and formlessness drink offering their
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
