Isaiah 46
1 [It is as though] Bel and Nebo, the statues of the gods [of Babylonia], are bowing down as those statues are put on animals and carried away! The statues are heavy burdens and will cause the animals to become tired [SAR]!
to bow Bel to stoop Nebo to be idol their to/for living thing and to/for animal burden your to lift burden to/for faint
2 [It seems like] both gods are bowing down; not only can they not save themselves, but they themselves are being (exiled/taken to another country)!
to stoop to bow together not be able to escape burden and soul: myself their in/on/with captivity to go: went
3 [Yahweh says], “You descendants of Jacob who were exiled, [I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried]; [instead, it is as though] I have carried you since you first became a nation [MET]. I carried you [even] before you became a nation.
to hear: hear to(wards) me house: household Jacob and all remnant house: household Israel [the] to lift from belly: womb [the] to lift: bear from womb
4 I will be your God, and I will carry you for many years, until [it is as though] [MET] your nation is an old man with gray hair. I caused [you to become a nation], and I will sustain you and rescue you.
and till old age I he/she/it and till greyheaded I to bear I to make and I to lift: bear and I to bear and to escape
5 There is certainly [RHQ] no one to whom I can be compared. There is [RHQ] no one who is equal to me [DOU].
to/for who? to resemble me and be like and to liken me and to resemble
6 [So it is stupid/ridiculous that] some people pour out gold and silver from their bags and weigh it on a scale. [Then] they hire a man who makes things from gold to make an idol from it. [After he makes an idol], they bow down and worship it!
[the] to lavish/despise gold from purse and silver: money in/on/with branch: scales to weigh to hire to refine and to make him god to prostrate also to bow
7 They lift it up and carry it on their shoulders. They put it in a [special] place, and it stays there. It cannot move! And when someone prays to it, it does not answer. So [obviously] it cannot rescue anyone from his troubles!
to lift: raise him upon shoulder to bear him and to rest him underneath: stand him and to stand: stand from place his not to remove also to cry to(wards) him and not to answer from distress his not to save him
8 [You people of Judah], do not forget this; keep thinking about it, you sinful people!
to remember this and be manly to return: recall to transgress upon heart
9 Think about the things [that I did] long ago. Only I am God; I am God, and there is no one like me.
to remember first: previous from forever: antiquity for I God and nothing still God and end like me
10 Only I can tell what will happen in the future before it occurs; I tell it long before it happens. I will accomplish everything that I plan to accomplish, and I will do everything that I want to do.
to tell from first: beginning end and from front: old which not to make: do to say counsel my to arise: establish and all pleasure my to make: do
11 So I will summon [someone to come] from the east [like a swift and powerful] eagle; he will come from a distant country. He will accomplish what I want him to. [He is the one who] will do what I have said that I want him to do, what I have planned.
to call: call to from east bird of prey from land: country/planet distance man (counsel my *Q(K)*) also to speak: speak also to come (in): come her to form: plan also to make: do her
12 You stubborn people [of Israel], [you think that] it will be a long time before you are allowed to return to your own country.
to hear: hear to(wards) me mighty: strong heart [the] distant from righteousness
13 But I will rescue you, and it will not be a long time [before that happens]. I will do it soon. I will rescue Jerusalem and show to you Israeli [people] that I am glorious.”
to present: come righteousness my not to remove and deliverance: salvation my not to delay and to give: put in/on/with Zion deliverance: salvation to/for Israel beauty my
