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 the LORD who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

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 pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, and flame will not scorch you.

3 for I LORD God your holy Israel to save you to give: give ransom your Egypt Cush and Seba underneath: instead you

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

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

Since you have been precious and honoured in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

5 not to fear for with you I from east to come (in): bring seed: children your and from west to gather you

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you 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 tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of 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

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

8 to come out: send people blind and eye there and deaf and ear to/for them

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

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

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who amongst them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

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

“You are my witnesses,” says the LORD, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

11 I I LORD and nothing from beside me to save

I myself am the LORD. Besides me, there is no saviour.

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 have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god amongst you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says the LORD, “and I 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

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

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

The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

15 I LORD holy your to create Israel king your

I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

16 thus to say LORD [the] to give: make in/on/with sea way: journey and in/on/with water strong path

The LORD, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

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

who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:

18 not to remember first: previous and eastern: older not to understand

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.

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

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the 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 animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

21 people this to form: formed to/for me praise my to recount

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

22 and not [obj] me to call: call to Jacob for be weary/toil in/on/with me Israel

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

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 me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

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 me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

25 I I he/she/it to wipe transgression your because me and sin your not to remember

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

26 to remember me to judge unitedness to recount you(m. s.) because to justify

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

27 father your [the] first to sin and to mock you to transgress in/on/with me

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

28 and to profane/begin: profane ruler holiness and to give: give to/for devoted thing Jacob and Israel to/for reviling

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”