Isaiah 66
1 thus to say LORD [the] heaven throne my and [the] land: country/planet footstool foot my where? this house: temple which to build to/for me and where? this place resting my
Yahweh [also] said this: “[All of] heaven is [like] my throne, and the whole earth is [like] my footstool. So you could certainly not [RHQ] build a house [that would be adequate] for me to live in and rest!
2 and [obj] all these hand my to make and to be all these utterance LORD and to(wards) this to look to(wards) afflicted and crippled spirit and trembling upon word my
I [MTY] have created everything; all things exist because I made them. [That is true because I], Yahweh, have said it. The people I am [most] pleased with are those who are humble, who [patiently endure it when they] (suffer/are afflicted), and who tremble when they hear me [rebuking them].
3 to slaughter [the] cattle to smite man to sacrifice [the] sheep to break the neck dog to ascend: offer up offering blood swine to remember frankincense to bless evil: wickedness also they(masc.) to choose in/on/with way: conduct their and in/on/with abomination their soul their to delight in
You have enjoyed [continually] doing the things that you want to do: [Some of] you slaughter oxen [to sacrifice them to me], but you also bring human sacrifices [to your idols]! You sacrifice lambs [to me], but you kill dogs [to offer them to your gods]. You offer grain to me, but you also bring pigs’ blood [to your idols]. You burn incense [to me], but you also praise your idols. You enjoy doing those disgusting things.
4 also I to choose in/on/with caprice their and fear their to come (in): bring to/for them because to call: call to and nothing to answer to speak: speak and not to hear: hear and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye my and in/on/with in which not to delight in to choose
When I called [out to you], you did not answer. When I spoke, you did not pay attention. You did [many] things that I say are evil; you chose [to do] things that I did not like. So [now] I will punish you by causing you to experience the things that you are [very] afraid of.”
5 to hear: hear word LORD [the] trembling to(wards) word his to say brother: male-sibling your to hate you to put away you because name my to honor: honour LORD and to see: see in/on/with joy your and they(masc.) be ashamed
But you people who tremble when you hear what Yahweh says, listen to what he says [now]: “Some of your people hate you and reject you because you belong to me. They make fun of you, and they say, ‘Yahweh should show his glorious power! We want to see him [do something to cause] you to be truly happy.’ But [some day] those people will be [very] disgraced.”
6 voice: sound roar from city voice: sound from temple voice: sound LORD to complete recompense to/for enemy his
[At that time], you will listen to the noise in the city. You will hear the shouting in the temple. It will be the sound of Yahweh shouting while he is punishing his enemies!
7 in/on/with before to twist: writh in pain to beget in/on/with before to come (in): come pain to/for her and to escape male
No one [RHQ] ever heard that a woman gave birth to a baby when she was just starting to have birth pains.
8 who? to hear: hear like/as this who? to see: see like/as these to twist: writh in pain land: country/planet in/on/with day one if: surely no to beget nation beat one for to twist: writh in pain also to beget Zion [obj] son: child her
Certainly no one [RHQ] ever heard about such a thing happening, and no one has ever seen it happen. [Similarly], no one ever [RHQ] heard that a nation was created in one instant, not even in one day. But Jerusalem is like [MET] [a woman who] gives birth to children as soon as she starts to have birth pains.
9 I to break and not to beget to say LORD if: surely no I [the] to beget and to restrain to say God your
Women certainly do not [RHQ] bring infants to the time when they are ready to be born and then do not allow them to be born. [Similarly, he will do for Jerusalem] [MET] [what he has promised to do]: [He will cause Jerusalem to be full of people again]. [That will happen because] Yahweh has said it.
10 to rejoice with Jerusalem and to rejoice in/on/with her all to love: lover her to rejoice with her rejoicing all [the] to mourn upon her
You people in [APO] Jerusalem, rejoice! And all you people who love Jerusalem should also be happy. You people who were sad because of [what happened to Jerusalem], you should now be glad.
11 because to suckle and to satisfy from breast consolation her because to drink deeply and to delight from abundance glory her
[You people in Jerusalem] will [have everything that you need] like [MET] a baby that gets all it needs from its mother’s breasts. You will enjoy all the abundant and glorious things [MET] in the city.
12 for thus to say LORD look! I to stretch to(wards) her like/as river peace and like/as torrent: river to overflow glory nation and to suckle upon side to lift: bear and upon knee to delight
Yahweh has promised, “I will cause Jerusalem to be full of valuable things that come from other nations; those things will pour into Jerusalem; it will be like [SIM] a big flood. I will take care of the people of Jerusalem like women care for the babies that they nurse.
13 like/as man which mother his to be sorry: comfort him so I to be sorry: comfort you and in/on/with Jerusalem to be sorry: comfort
I will comfort you people in Jerusalem like [MET] mothers comfort their children.”
14 and to see: see and to rejoice heart your and bone your like/as grass to sprout and to know hand: power LORD with servant/slave his and be indignant [obj] enemy his
When you see [those things happen], you [SYN] will rejoice. Your [old] bones will become strong [again] like [SIM] grass [that grows quickly/well in the springtime]. [When that happens, everyone] will know that Yahweh has power [MTY] to help those who worship and obey him, but that he is angry with his enemies.
15 for behold LORD in/on/with fire to come (in): come and like/as whirlwind chariot his to/for to return: turn back in/on/with rage face: anger his and rebuke his in/on/with flame fire
Yahweh will come down with flames of fire, and his chariots [will come down] like [SIM] a whirlwind; he will be extremely angry, and he will punish [his enemies] by burning them in a fire.
16 for in/on/with fire LORD to judge and in/on/with sword his with all flesh and to multiply slain: killed LORD
[It is as though] [MET] Yahweh has a [big] sword, and he will judge and execute many people.
17 [the] to consecrate: consecate and [the] be pure to(wards) [the] garden after (one *Q(K)*) in/on/with midst to eat flesh [the] swine and [the] detestation and [the] mouse together to cease utterance LORD
Yahweh says, “Some of you people purify/bathe yourselves and [then] go to a garden to worship your gods. You eat the meat of pigs and lizards and mice, [and other things that I have forbidden you to eat]. So I will get rid of you [for doing that].
18 and I deed their and plot their to come (in): come to/for to gather [obj] all [the] nation and [the] tongue: language and to come (in): come and to see: see [obj] glory my
I know [all] the [evil] things that you think and do. [It is now time] for me to gather together the people who live in all nations and who speak all languages, and to show them that I am very great.
19 and to set: make in/on/with them sign: indicator and to send: depart from them survivor to(wards) [the] nation Tarshish Pul and Lud to draw bow Tubal and Greece [the] coastland [the] distant which not to hear: hear [obj] report my and not to see: see [obj] glory my and to tell [obj] glory my in/on/with Gentile
I will put a mark on them, and those whom I have spared will go to various [distant] countries: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to distant islands. I will send them to proclaim to nations that have never heard about me that I am very great and glorious.
20 and to come (in): bring [obj] all brother: compatriot your from all [the] nation offering to/for LORD in/on/with horse and in/on/with chariot and in/on/with litter and in/on/with mule and in/on/with dromedary upon mountain: mount holiness my Jerusalem to say LORD like/as as which to come (in): bring son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] offering in/on/with article/utensil pure house: temple LORD
Then they will bring back here your relatives [who have been (exiled/forced to go to other countries)], to be like [SIM] an offering to me. They will come on horses, in chariots, on mules, and on camels. They will come to [Zion, ] my sacred hill in Jerusalem. That will be like [SIM] the offerings that [my] Israeli people used to bring in the correct manner to the temple.
21 and also from them to take: take to/for priest to/for Levi to say LORD
[I solemnly promise that] I will appoint some of them to be priests, and others to do other work in my temple. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.
22 for like/as as which [the] heaven [the] new and [the] land: country/planet [the] new which I to make to stand: stand to/for face: before my utterance LORD so to stand: stand seed: children your and name your
I [also] promise that just like the new heaven and the new earth will last forever, you will always have descendants, and you [MTY] will always be honored.
23 and to be from sufficiency month: new moon in/on/with month: new moon his and from sufficiency Sabbath in/on/with Sabbath his to come (in): come all flesh to/for to bow to/for face: before my to say LORD
At every festival to celebrate the Sabbath [each week] and the new moon [each month], everyone will [come and] worship me. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.
24 and to come out: come and to see: see in/on/with corpse [the] human [the] to transgress in/on/with me for worm their not to die and fire their not to quench and to be abhorrence to/for all flesh
Then they will go out [of Jerusalem] and look at the corpses of those who rebelled against me. The maggots in those corpses will never die, the fire will never stop burning them, and everyone [who sees their corpses] will detest them.”
