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
“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together 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 raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to 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, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone 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 worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Adonai, am the first א (Aleph), and I am the same with those are the last ת (Tav), 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 have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
6 man: anyone [obj] neighbor his to help and to/for brother: male-sibling his to say to strengthen: strengthen
Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “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
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
8 and you(m. s.) Israel servant/slave my Jacob which to choose you seed: children Abraham to love: friend me
“But you, Israel [God prevails], my servant, Jacob [Supplanter] whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham [Father of a multitude] my 'ahav ·affectionate lover, 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
You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’
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
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my 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 those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall 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, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.
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, Adonai your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. 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
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob [Supplanter], and you men of Israel [God prevails]. I will help you,” says Adonai, “and your Redeemer is haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails].
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 have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like 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 the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Adonai. You will glory in haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails].
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, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Adonai, will answer them. I, the God of Israel [God prevails], 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 bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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 put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
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
that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Adonai’s hand has done this, and haKadosh Isra'el [the Holy One of God prevails] has created it.
21 to present: come strife your to say LORD to approach: bring defense your to say king Jacob
Produce your cause,” says Adonai. “Bring out your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob [Supplanter].
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 announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or sh'ma ·hear obey· unto us things to come.
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
Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are deities. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
24 look! you(m. p.) from nothing and work your from worthless abomination to choose in/on/with you
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
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; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads 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 it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who sh'ma ·hears obeys, declares·. Surely, there is no one who sh'ma ·hears obeys· your words.
27 first to/for Zion behold look! they and to/for Jerusalem to bear tidings to give: give
I am the first to say to Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem [City of peace].
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 man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
29 look! all their evil: trouble end deed their spirit: breath and formlessness drink offering their
Behold, all of them, their deeds are vain striving of iniquity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
