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, those of you who follow what is right, and who worship the Lord. Think about the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were chiseled.

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 back at Abraham your father, and Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one man, but then I blessed him and he had many descendants.

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

The Lord will care for Zion and feel sorry about all her ruined places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert areas like the garden of the Lord. People there will have joy and happiness, giving thanks and singing sweet songs.

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; listen to me, my nation: I will send out my law, and my justice will be a light to the nations.

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 rule of right will arrive soon. My salvation is coming. My power will bring judgment to the nations. The distant lands are waiting for me and my power.

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

Look up at the heavens, and look down at the earth beneath. The heavens will disappear like smoke, the earth will wear out like old clothes. The people living there will die like flies, but my salvation will last forever, and my way of goodness and right will never be destroyed.

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's right, and who have really accepted my teachings. Don't be afraid of people's insults—they're just human—or be terrified by their abusive language.

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

Moths will eat them up like clothing; bugs will chew through them like wool. But my goodness will last forever, my salvation will endure for 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

Please wake up, wake up! Use your strength, powerful Lord! Act as you used to in olden days, in former generations. Weren't you the one who cut Rahab to pieces, who killed that sea monster?

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

Weren't you the one who dried up the sea, making a way through the deep waters 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

Those the Lord has set free will return, singing as they enter Jerusalem, wearing crowns of everlasting joy. They are overcome with thankfulness and happiness; sorrow and sadness simply disappear.

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

It's me, yes, I am the one who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortals who die just 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

You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and who laid the foundations of the earth! That's why you shake with fear all day long, because you're threatened by the anger of those who oppress you, wanting to destroy you. But where are your oppressors and their anger now?

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 prisoners that are bowed down will soon be set free. They're not going to die; they won't go on being hungry.

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 whips up the sea so its waves roar. The Lord Almighty 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 told you what to say, and I have protected you with my hand. I created the heavens and founded the earth, and told 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

Wake up, wake up! Get up, Jerusalem! You have drunk from the cup of the Lord's anger he handed to you. You have drained it down to the bottom of the cup, the drink that makes people stagger around.

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

Of all your children you had, there's not one left to guide you. Of all the children you raised, there's not one to take you by the 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

Two tragedies have struck you: devastation caused by famine, and destruction caused by war. Who is going to sympathize with you? Who is going to 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 children have collapsed, lying in every street like antelopes caught in a trap. They experienced the full anger of the Lord, the condemnation of your God.

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

So please listen to this, you poor people, sitting there in a drunken state, but not from drinking 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

This is what your Lord God says, your God, who defends his people's cause: Look! I have taken away from you the cup that made you stagger around. You will never again have to drink from that cup, the cup of my anger.

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

Instead I will give that cup to the people who tormented you, to those who said to you, “Lie face down so we can walk all over you.” You had to make your backs like the ground, like a street to be walked on.