Isaiah 51

1 to hear: hear to(wards) me to pursue righteousness to seek LORD to look to(wards) rock to hew and to(wards) hole pit to dig

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

2 to look to(wards) Abraham father your and to(wards) Sarah to twist: give birth you for one to call: call to him and to bless him and to multiply him

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

3 for to be sorry: comfort LORD Zion to be sorry: comfort all desolation her and to set: make wilderness her like/as Eden and plain her like/as garden LORD rejoicing and joy to find in/on/with her thanksgiving and voice melody

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

4 to listen to(wards) me people my and people my to(wards) me to listen for instruction from with me to come out: speak and justice my to/for light people to rest

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

5 near righteousness my to come out: come salvation my and arm my people to judge to(wards) me coastland to await and to(wards) arm my to wait: hope [emph?]

My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.

6 to lift: look to/for heaven eye your and to look to(wards) [the] land: country/planet from underneath: under for heaven like/as smoke to dissipate and [the] land: country/planet like/as garment to become old and to dwell her like gnat to die [emph?] and salvation my to/for forever: enduring to be and righteousness my not to to be dismayed

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

7 to hear: hear to(wards) me to know righteousness people instruction my in/on/with heart their not to fear reproach human and from reviling their not to to be dismayed

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

8 for like/as garment to eat them moth and like/as wool to eat them moth and righteousness my to/for forever: enduring to be and salvation my to/for generation generation

For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

9 to rouse to rouse to clothe strength arm LORD to rouse like/as day front: old generation forever: antiquity not you(f. s.) he/she/it [the] to hew Rahab monster to bore serpent: monster

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

10 not you(f. s.) he/she/it [the] to dry sea water abyss many [the] to set: make deep sea way: road to/for to pass to redeem: redeem

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

11 and to ransom LORD to return: return [emph?] and to come (in): come Zion in/on/with cry and joy forever: enduring upon head their rejoicing and joy to overtake [emph?] to flee sorrow and sighing

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

12 I I he/she/it to be sorry: comfort you who? you(f. s.) and to fear from human to die and from son: child man grass to give: make

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

13 and to forget LORD to make you to stretch heaven and to found land: country/planet and to dread continually all [the] day from face of rage [the] to press like/as as which to establish: establish to/for to ruin and where? rage [the] to press

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

14 to hasten to march to/for to open and not to die to/for Pit: hell and not to lack food: bread his (questioned)

The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

15 and I LORD God your to disturb [the] sea and to roar heap: wave his LORD Hosts name his

For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

16 and to set: put word my in/on/with lip your and in/on/with shadow hand: power my to cover you to/for to plant heaven and to/for to found land: country/planet and to/for to say to/for Zion people my you(m. s.)

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

17 to rouse to rouse to arise: establish Jerusalem which to drink from hand LORD [obj] cup rage his [obj] dreg cup [the] reeling to drink to drain

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.

18 nothing to guide to/for her from all son: child to beget and nothing to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand her from all son: child to magnify

Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

19 two they(fem.) to encounter: chanced you who? to wander to/for you [the] violence and [the] breaking and [the] famine and [the] sword who? to be sorry: comfort you

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

20 son: child your to enwrap to lie down: lay down in/on/with head: top all outside like/as antelope net [the] full rage LORD rebuke God your

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

21 to/for so to hear: hear please this afflicted and be drunk and not from wine

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

22 thus to say lord your LORD and God your to contend people his behold to take: take from hand your [obj] cup [the] reeling [obj] dreg cup rage my not to add: again to/for to drink her still

Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.

23 and to set: put her in/on/with hand to suffer you which to say to/for soul: myself your to bow and to pass and to set: make like/as land: soil back your and like/as outside to/for to pass

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”