Isaiah 45
1 thus to say LORD to/for anointed his to/for Cyrus which to strengthen: hold in/on/with right his to/for to subdue to/for face: before his nation and loin king to open to/for to open to/for face: before his door and gate not to shut
Cyrus is the one whom Yahweh has appointed [to be the emperor of Persia] and to whom he will give great power [IDM]; Yahweh will enable him to defeat other nations and to take away the power of their kings. He will cause gates of cities to be opened, and no one will ever be able to shut them.
2 I to/for face: before your to go: went and to honor (to smooth *Q(K)*) door bronze to break and bar iron to cut down/off
This is what Yahweh says to him: “Cyrus, I will go ahead of you and level the mountains. I will smash down bronze gates and cut through iron bars.
3 and to give: give to/for you treasure darkness and treasure hiding because to know for I LORD [the] to call: call to in/on/with name your God Israel
I will give you treasures [that people have hidden] in dark secret places [DOU]. I will do that in order that you will know that I am Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelis belong, the God who calls you by your name.
4 because servant/slave my Jacob and Israel chosen my and to call: call to to/for you in/on/with name your to flatter you and not to know me
I have summoned you, calling out your name, for the sake of [the people of] Israel [DOU] whom I have chosen, who serve me. Even though you do not know me, I will give you a title which has great honor.
5 I LORD and nothing still exception me nothing God to gird you and not to know me
I am Yahweh, and there is no other God [DOU]. Even though you do not know me, I will give you power
6 because to know from east sun (and from west her *LAH(b)*) for end beside me I LORD and nothing still
in order that everyone in the world, from the east to the west, will know that there is no other [God]. I am Yahweh, and there is no other [God].
7 to form: formed light and to create darkness to make peace: well-being and to create bad: evil I LORD to make: do all these
I created the light and the darkness. I cause there to be peace and I cause there to be disasters. I, Yahweh, do all those things.”
8 to drip heaven from above and cloud to flow righteousness to open land: country/planet and be fruitful salvation and righteousness to spring unitedness I LORD to create him
[And Yahweh also says, “I want my] rescue [of my people] [MET] to fall from the sky like rain. Just like the earth opens wide to accept rain, I will rescue/save my people and cause them to be treated justly. I, Yahweh, am the one who will cause both of those things to happen.
9 woe! to contend with to form: formed him earthenware with earthenware land: soil to say clay to/for to form: formed him what? to make and work your nothing hand to/for him
Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, the one who created them. [They are like] [MET] a clay pot and [I am like] the one who made it; so they certainly cannot [RHQ] criticize me. A lump of clay certainly cannot [RHQ] argue with the one who shapes it [to form a pot], saying, ‘Why are you making me like this?’ The pot cannot say ‘[You have no skill, because] what you made has no handles!’
10 woe! to say to/for father what? to beget and to/for woman what? to twist: writh in pain [emph?]
And it would be terrible if an unborn baby would say to its father, ‘Why are you [RHQ] causing me to be born?’ or if it said to its mother, ‘The result of your labor pains will be useless?’”
11 thus to say LORD holy Israel and to form: formed him [the] to come to ask me upon son: child my and upon work hand my to command me
Yahweh, the Holy One of the Israeli people, the one who created Israel, says this to them: “(Why do you ask questions about [what I do for you], my children?/You should not ask questions about [what I do for you], my children.) [RHQ] (Why do you tell me about the work that I should do?/You should not tell me about the work that I should do.) [RHQ]
12 I to make land: country/planet and man upon her to create I hand my to stretch heaven and all army their to command
I am the one who created the earth and created people to live on it. I stretched out the sky with my hands, and I put the stars in their places.
13 I to rouse him in/on/with righteousness and all way: conduct his to smooth he/she/it to build city my and captivity my to send: let go not in/on/with price and not in/on/with bribe to say LORD Hosts
And I will appoint Cyrus to do things that are right/just, and I will enable him to do all those things easily [MET]. His [workers] will rebuild my city, and he will free my people who have been (exiled/forced to leave their country). And he will do it without my rewarding/paying him! [Those things will surely happen because] I, the Commander of the armies of angels, have said it.
14 thus to say LORD toil Egypt and profit Cush and Sabeans human measure upon you to pass and to/for you to be after you to go: follow in/on/with fetter to pass and to(wards) you to bow to(wards) you to pray surely in/on/with you God and nothing still end God
And this is [also] what [I], Yahweh, say [to you, my people]: ‘You will rule the people of Egypt and Ethiopia, and the tall people of Seba [in Arabia] will become your slaves. They will come to you bringing all the things that they sell, and it will all be yours. [As prisoners], they will have chains on their arms as they follow you. They will prostrate themselves in front of you and say, “God is with/helping you and he is the only God; there is no other God.” '”
15 surely you(m. s.) God to hide God Israel to save
God, although we cannot see you, you are the one to whom [we] Israeli people belong, the one who saves us.
16 be ashamed and also be humiliated all their together to go: went in/on/with shame artificer image
All those who make idols will be humiliated. They will all be disgraced together.
17 Israel to save in/on/with LORD deliverance: salvation forever: enduring not be ashamed and not be humiliated till forever: enduring perpetuity
But you, Yahweh, will rescue [us, your] Israeli people, and we will be free forever. Never again will we again be humiliated and disgraced.
18 for thus to say LORD to create [the] heaven he/she/it [the] God to form: formed [the] land: country/planet and to make her he/she/it to establish: make her not formlessness to create her to/for to dwell to form: formed her I LORD and nothing still
Yahweh is God; he is the one who created the sky and created and formed the earth. He did not want it to remain with nothing living on it; he wanted people to live on it. [He says], “I am Yahweh; there is no other [God].
19 not in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak in/on/with place land: country/planet darkness not to say to/for seed: children Jacob formlessness to seek me I LORD to speak: speak righteousness to tell uprightness
[What I proclaimed], I did not speak secretly or [hide what I was saying by speaking] in a dark place. When I spoke to the descendants of Jacob, I did not tell them ‘It will be useless for you to (seek for/pray to) me!’ I, Yahweh, speak [only] what is true and what is right.
20 to gather and to come (in): come to approach: approach together survivor [the] nation not to know [the] to lift: bear [obj] tree: wood idol their and to pray to(wards) god not to save
You people who are still alive after experiencing great disasters, should come and gather together [and listen to this]: The people who carry around their wooden idols and pray to them are foolish, because those idols cannot rescue them!
21 to tell and to approach: bring also to advise together who? to hear: proclaim this from front: old from the past to tell her not I LORD and nothing still God from beside me God righteous and to save nothing exception me
Talk among yourselves, and decide what you will say to prove that [your praying to idols is good]. [And when you do that, I will ask you], ‘Who predicted long ago [what has now happened]? Did any idol tell you [that those things would happen] [RHQ]?’ No, it was [RHQ] only I, Yahweh, who told you, because I am the only God; there is no other God. I am a God who acts righteously and saves people; there is no other one [who does these things].
22 to turn to(wards) me and to save all end land: country/planet for I God and nothing still
Everyone in the world should ask me to save them, because I am the only God who can do that; there is no other one.
23 in/on/with me to swear to come out: come from lip my righteousness word and not to return: return for to/for me to bow all knee to swear all tongue
I have solemnly declared, using my own name; I [SYN] have spoken what is true, and I will never change what I have said: [Some day], everyone [SYN] will bow in front of me, and they will all solemnly promise to be loyal to me.
24 surely in/on/with LORD to/for me to say righteousness and strength till him to come (in): come and be ashamed all [the] to be incensed in/on/with him
They will declare, ‘Yahweh is the one who enables us to live righteously and to be strong.’” And all those who have been angry at him will come to him, and they will be ashamed [for having been angry with him].
25 in/on/with LORD to justify and to boast: boast all seed: children Israel
Yahweh is the only one who will enable [us] Israeli people in the future to defeat our enemies, [and then] we will boast about what he [has done for us].
