Isaiah 48
1 to hear: hear this house: household Jacob [the] to call: call by in/on/with name Israel and from water Judah to come out: come [the] to swear in/on/with name LORD and in/on/with God Israel to remember not in/on/with truth: true and not in/on/with righteousness
Hear ye this—O house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea from the waters of Judah, came they forth, —Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembrance—Not in truth, nor in righteousness;
2 for from city [the] holiness to call: call by and upon God Israel to support LORD Hosts name his
For of the holy city, do they call themselves, And on the God of Israel, do they stay themselves, —Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
3 [the] first: previous from the past to tell and from lip my to come out: speak and to hear: proclaim them suddenly to make: do and to come (in): come
Things in advance, of old, I declared, Yea out of mine own mouth, came they forth, that I might let them be known, —Suddenly, I wrought and they came to pass.
4 from to know I for severe you(m. s.) and sinew iron neck your and forehead your bronze
Because I knew that—Obstinate, thou wast, —And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen,
5 and to tell to/for you from the past in/on/with before to come (in): come to hear: proclaim you lest to say idol my to make: do them and idol my and drink offering my to command them
therefore told I thee—in time past, Ere yet it came, I let thee hear, —Lest thou shouldest say Mine idol wrought them, Yea, my carved image and my molten image, commanded them!
6 to hear: hear to see all her and you(m. p.) not to tell to hear: proclaim you new from now and to watch and not to know them
Thou hast heard—see it whole, And will, ye, not tell? I have let thee hear new things—from the present time, Even secrets which ye knew not.
7 now to create and not from the past and to/for face: before day and not to hear: hear them lest to say behold to know them
Now, are they created, and not in time past, And, before to-day, thou hadst not heard of them, —Lest thou shouldest say, Lo! I knew them!
8 also not to hear: hear also not to know also from the past not to open ear your for to know to act treacherously to act treacherously and to transgress from belly: womb to call: call by to/for you
Nay! thou hadst not heard, Nay! thou hadst not known, Nay! in time past, thine ear, was not opened, —For I knew that thou, wouldst be treacherous, Yea a transgressor from birth, hast thou been called.
9 because name my to prolong face: anger my and praise my to restrain to/for you to/for lest to cut: eliminate you
For the sake of mine own Name, will I defer mine anger, And for my praise, will I restrain myself towards thee, —So as not to cut thee off.
10 behold to refine you and not in/on/with silver: money to choose you in/on/with furnace affliction
Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver, —I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.
11 because me because me to make: do for how? to profane/begin: profane and glory my to/for another not to give: give
For mine own sake—for mine own sake, will I effectually work For how should it be profaned? And, my glory—to another, will I not give.
12 to hear: hear to(wards) me Jacob and Israel to call: call to my I he/she/it I first also I last
Hearken unto me O Jacob, And Israel, my called one, —I, am, the Same I, the first, yea, I, the last:
13 also hand: power my to found land: country/planet and right my to extend heaven to call: call to I to(wards) them to stand: stand together
Surely, mine own hand, founded the earth, And, my right hand, stretched out the heavens, —While I was calling unto them, they stood forth, at once
14 to gather all your and to hear: hear who? in/on/with them to tell [obj] these LORD to love: lover him to make: do pleasure his in/on/with Babylon and arm his Chaldea
Assemble yourselves—all of you and hear, Who among them, hath told these things? he whom Yahweh loveth, will execute—His pleasure, on Babylon, And his stroke on the Chaldeans.
15 I I to speak: speak also to call: call to him to come (in): bring him and to prosper way: journey his
I—I, have spoken, Yea I have called him, —I have brought him in, and he shall make prosperous his way.
16 to present: come to(wards) me to hear: hear this not from head: first in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak from time to be she there I and now Lord YHWH/God to send: depart me and spirit his
Draw ye near unto me—hear ye this, Not in advance in secret, have I spoken, From the very time it cometh into being, there, am I, —And, now, My Lord Yahweh hath sent me and his spirit.
17 thus to say LORD to redeem: redeem your holy Israel I LORD God your to learn: teach you to/for to gain to tread you in/on/with way: conduct to go: went
Thus saith Yahweh—Thy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, —I—Yahweh, am thy God, Teaching thee to profit, Guiding thee in the way thou shouldest go.
18 if to listen to/for commandment my and to be like/as river peace your and righteousness your like/as heap: wave [the] sea
Oh! that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, —Then had been, like a river, thy prosperity, And, thy righteousness, like the waves of the sea:
19 and to be like/as sand seed: children your and offspring belly your like/as grain his not to cut: eliminate and not to destroy name his from to/for face: before my
Then had been, like the sand, thy seed, And, the offspring of thy body, like the grains thereof, —Neither cut off nor destroyed had been his name from before me.
20 to come out: come from Babylon to flee from Chaldea in/on/with voice cry to tell to hear: proclaim this to come out: send her till end [the] land: country/planet to say to redeem: redeem LORD servant/slave his Jacob
Come ye forth out of Babylon, Flee from among the Chaldeans, With triumphant voice, tell ye—let this be heard, Let it go forth as far as the end of the earth, —Say ye—Yahweh hath redeemed his servant Jacob!
21 and not to thirst in/on/with desolation to go: take them water from rock to flow to/for them and to break up/open rock and to flow: flowing water
And they thirsted not, when, through dry places, he led them, Waters out of the rock, caused he to flow out to them, —Yea be cleft a rock and, there gushed out waters:
22 nothing peace to say LORD to/for wicked
No well-being, saith Yahweh to the lawless,
