Isaiah 43
1 and now thus to say LORD to create you Jacob and to form: formed you Israel not to fear for to redeem: redeem you to call: call to in/on/with name your to/for me you(m. s.)
But now, you people of Israel, listen to Yahweh, the one who established your nation. The one who caused you to become a nation [DOU] says this: “Do not be afraid, because I previously rescued you. I enabled you to have a personal relationship with me [MTY], and you belong to me.
2 for to pass in/on/with water with you I and in/on/with river not to overflow you for to go: walk in/at/by fire not to burn and flame not to burn: burn in/on/with you
When you [experience dangerous situations], and [you feel like] [MET] you are crossing deep rivers, I will be with you. When you have very big troubles/difficulties, you will [LIT] be able to endure them. When [people try to kill you like they tried to kill Daniel’s three friends by] throwing them in a fire, you will not [die, just like Daniel’s three friends were not] burned up,
3 for I LORD God your holy Israel to save you to give: give ransom your Egypt Cush and Seba underneath: instead you
because I am Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, the one who rescues you. I will enable [the army of the emperor of Persia] to conquer Egypt instead of conquering you; similarly I will enable them to conquer Ethiopia, and Seba [in Arabia], in order that you can be saved.
4 from whence be precious in/on/with eye my to honor: honour and I to love: lover you and to give: give man underneath: instead you and people underneath: instead soul: life your
I will cause other countries to be conquered, instead of your country; I will trade them for you, in order that you will not be killed, because you are very precious [DOU] to me and because I love you.
5 not to fear for with you I from east to come (in): bring seed: children your and from west to gather you
Do not be afraid, because I am with you. [Some day] I will gather your descendants from the east and from the west.
6 to say to/for north to give: give and to/for south not to restrain to come (in): bring son: child my from distant and daughter my from end [the] land: country/planet
I will command the [rulers of the nations to] the north and to the south, ‘Allow all the people of Israel to return [to their country], from the most distant places on the earth.
7 all [the] to call: call by in/on/with name my and to/for glory my to create him to form: formed him also to make him
Allow all those who belong to me [MTY] to return, because I have caused them to become a nation in order that they would honor me; I am the one who has done that [DOU].’
8 to come out: send people blind and eye there and deaf and ear to/for them
Summon the people who have eyes but [it is as though] they are blind; summon those who have ears but [because they do not listen to me, it is as though] they are deaf.
9 all [the] nation to gather together and to gather people who? in/on/with them to tell this and first: previous to hear: proclaim us to give: give witness their and to justify and to hear: hear and to say truth: true
Gather people of all nations together, ones from all people-groups, [and ask them this]: ‘Has any of their idols foretold the things that are happening now? And can any of them predict what will happen in the future?’ Then bring people who will testify and say ‘I heard them predict things, and what they predicted was what happened,’ [but they will be lying].”
10 you(m. p.) witness my utterance LORD and servant/slave my which to choose because to know and be faithful to/for me and to understand for I he/she/it to/for face: before my not to form: formed god and after me not to be
But Yahweh says, “You people of Israel (are my witnesses/know what I have done), and you are the ones who serve me. I chose you in order that you would know me, believe in me, and understand that I am the only one who is [truly] God. There is no other [true] God. There was no other [true] God previously, and there will never be another [true] God.
11 I I LORD and nothing from beside me to save
I, [only] I, am Yahweh, and there is no other one who can save you.
12 I to tell and to save and to hear: proclaim and nothing in/on/with you be a stranger and you(m. p.) witness my utterance LORD and I God
I said that I would rescue [your ancestors], and then I rescued them, and I proclaimed [that I had done it]. No foreign god among you did that! And you are witnesses that only I, Yahweh, am God.
13 also from day: today I he/she/it and nothing from hand: power my to rescue to work and who? to return: turn back her
I am God, the one who has existed forever and who will exist forever; no one can snatch people from my hand, and no one can alter/change what I have done.”
14 thus to say LORD to redeem: redeem your holy Israel because you to send: depart Babylon [to] and to go down fleeing all their and Chaldea in/on/with fleet cry their
Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, is the one who rescues you; and this is what he says: “For your sake, I will send [an army] to [attack] Babylon. They will force the people of that city to flee in ships which they have been proud of.
15 I LORD holy your to create Israel king your
I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the one who caused Israel to become a nation, and the one who is really your king.
16 thus to say LORD [the] to give: make in/on/with sea way: journey and in/on/with water strong path
I am Yahweh, the one who opened a path through the water, making a road through the [Red] Sea.
17 [the] to come out: send chariot and horse strength: soldiers and mighty together to lie down: lay down not to arise: rise to put out like/as flax to quench
Then I summoned the great army [of Egypt] to come with all their chariots and horses. [But when they tried to pursue my people], I caused the waves to flow over them [and they drowned]; their lives ended [like the light of a candle ends when someone] [MET] snuffs out the wick.
18 not to remember first: previous and eastern: older not to understand
But do not think [only] about what happened in the past, long ago [DOU].
19 look! I to make: do new now to spring not to know her also to set: make in/on/with wilderness way: road in/on/with wilderness river
Instead, consider the new thing that I am going to do. I have already started to do it; can you see it? I am going to make a road through the desert. And I will cause there to be streams in the wasteland/desert.
20 to honor: honour me living thing [the] land: wildlife jackal and daughter ostrich for to give: give in/on/with wilderness water river in/on/with wilderness to/for to water: drink people my chosen my
The jackals/wolves and owls and other wild creatures will thank me for giving them water in the desert. I will cause streams to appear in the dry desert in order that my people, the ones whom I have chosen, will have water;
21 people this to form: formed to/for me praise my to recount
I will do that for the people whom I have created [and chosen] to belong to me, and [some day] they will cause many others to praise me.
22 and not [obj] me to call: call to Jacob for be weary/toil in/on/with me Israel
But now, you descendants of Jacob, you refuse to request my help. It seems that you people of Israel have become tired of worshiping me.
23 not to come (in): bring to/for me sheep burnt offering your and sacrifice your not to honor: honour me not to serve: burden you in/on/with offering and not be weary/toil you in/on/with frankincense
You have not brought to me sheep or goats for offerings that will be completely burned [on the altar]; you have not honored me by [bringing to me any] sacrifices, even though the offerings of grain and incense [that I asked you] to bring to me were not a burden to you.
24 not to buy to/for me in/on/with silver: money branch: stem and fat sacrifice your not to quench me surely to serve: burden me in/on/with sin your be weary/toil me in/on/with iniquity: crime your
You have bought for me fragrant reeds, and you have brought me the fat from your sacrifices. But these have not pleased me, because you have burdened me by all the sins that you have committed, and made me weary because of all (your iniquities/the wrong things that you have done).
25 I I he/she/it to wipe transgression your because me and sin your not to remember
I am the one who is able to forgive you for all your sins; I am the only one who can do that, with the result that I will never think about them again.
26 to remember me to judge unitedness to recount you(m. s.) because to justify
Tell me what I have done that you do not like. Do you think that when you state your case, you will prove that you (are innocent/have done nothing wrong) [IRO]?
27 father your [the] first to sin and to mock you to transgress in/on/with me
No, [what has happened is that] the first ancestor of you Israelis sinned [against me], and since then, all your leaders have rebelled against me.
28 and to profane/begin: profane ruler holiness and to give: give to/for devoted thing Jacob and Israel to/for reviling
That is why I have caused your priests to be disgraced; and I have allowed others to destroy you people of Israel and caused you to be despised.”
