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 [and hearken] unto me, O ye Coastlands, And let the Races of Men renew their strength, —Let them approach, then, let them speak, Together, for controversy, let us draw near: —
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 roused up one from the East, In righteousness, called him to his feet, —Set before him nations And over kings, caused him to rule, His sword, made [them] like dust, His bow like driven chaff:
3 to pursue them to pass peace: well-being way in/on/with foot his not to come (in): come
He pursued them passed along safely, —Upon the path of his own feet, entered he not?
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 hath wrought and performed, Calling the generations, in advance? I, Yahweh, [who am] First, And with them who are last, I, am the Same!
5 to see: see coastland and to fear end [the] land: country/planet to tremble to present: come and to come [emph?]
Coastlands have seen, so they fear, The ends of the earth, are in dread, —They have drawn near, and have come:
6 man: anyone [obj] neighbor his to help and to/for brother: male-sibling his to say to strengthen: strengthen
Every man, to his neighbour, giveth help, —And to his brother, saith Take courage!
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 carver, hath encouraged, the goldsmith, he that maketh smooth with the hammer, him that smiteth the anvil, —Saying of the welding, It is, good, Then hath he fastened it with nails—it must not totter!
8 and you(m. s.) Israel servant/slave my Jacob which to choose you seed: children Abraham to love: friend me
But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, —The seed of Abraham my loving one;
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
Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And from the extremities thereof, have called thee, —And said to thee, My Servant, thou! I have chosen thee and not cast thee off,
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 with thee, I am! Look not around, for, I, am thy God, —I have emboldened thee, Yea I have helped thee, Yea I have upheld thee with my righteous right-hand.
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
Lo! they shall turn pale and be ashamed—All they who have been incensed against thee, —They shall become as nothing and perish—The men who have been thine accusers:
12 to seek them and not to find them human strife your to be like/as nothing and like/as end human battle your
Thou shalt seek them, but shalt not find them—The men who have contended with thee, They shall become as nothing, and as a thing of nought—The men who have warred against thee;
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, Yahweh thy God am firmly grasping thy right-hand, —Who am saying unto thee Do not fear! I, have become thy helper!
14 not to fear worm Jacob man Israel I to help you utterance LORD and to redeem: redeem your holy Israel
Do not fear, Thou worm Jacob, Ye men of Israel, —I, have become thy helper, Declareth Yahweh, And thy redeemer 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
Lo! I have made of thee a new pointed threshing sledge, owning teeth, —Thou shalt thresh mountains and crush them, And, hills—like chaff, shalt thou make:
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
Thou shalt fan them and, a wind, shall carry them away, And, a whirlwind, scatter, them, —But, thou, shalt exult in Yahweh, And, in the Holy One of Israel, shalt thou boast thyself.
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
As for the oppressed and the needy. Seeking water when there is none, Their tongue with thirst being parched I—Yahweh, will answer them, The God of Israel, I 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, On bare hills rivers, and In the midst of plains, fountains, —I will make The desert, a lake of water, and Parched 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 set in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree, —I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm-oak, and sherbin-cedar, 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
That men may see and observe and consider and understand at once, That, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this, That the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 to present: come strife your to say LORD to approach: bring defense your to say king Jacob
Bring near your contention, Saith Yahweh, —Advance your defences, Saith 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 advance them, and tell us, What shall happen, —Things known in advance—what they were, tell ye, That we may lay them to our heart and mark the after-story of them, Or, things yet to come, let us hear:
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 ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are, —Surely ye must do something—good or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once.
24 look! you(m. p.) from nothing and work your from worthless abomination to choose in/on/with you
Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath, —An abomination, he that chooseth you!
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 roused up one from the North, and he hath come, From the rising of the sun, calleth he on my Name, —And he hath come, on deputies, as though they were mortar, And as a potter treadeth 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 hath told in advance, that we might know, And beforetime, that we might say Right! Nay, there is none who can tell. Nay, there is none who can let us hear, Nay, there is none who can understand what ye utter.
27 first to/for Zion behold look! they and to/for Jerusalem to bear tidings to give: give
He who is First, [can say], To Zion, Lo! there they are! And to Jerusalem, A herald of good-tidings, do I give.
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
So I look, And there is not, a Man! Even among these And there is none to advise, —That, when I ask them, can answer a word.
29 look! all their evil: trouble end deed their spirit: breath and formlessness drink offering their
Lo! as to all of them, Vanity—nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!
