Isaiah 40
1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
to be sorry: comfort to be sorry: comfort people my to say God your
2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem; and proclaim to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received double from Yahweh's hand for all her sins.”
to speak: speak upon heart Jerusalem and to call: call to to(wards) her for to fill army: war her for to accept iniquity: crime her for to take: recieve from hand LORD double in/on/with all sin her
3 A voice cries out, “In the wilderness prepare the way of Yahweh; make straight in the Arabah a highway for our God.”
voice to call: call out in/on/with wilderness to turn way: road LORD to smooth in/on/with plain highway to/for God our
4 Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be leveled; and the rugged land will be made level, and the rough places a plain;
all valley to lift: raise and all mountain: mount and hill to abase and to be [the] steep to/for plain and [the] roughness to/for valley
5 and the glory of Yahweh will be revealed, and all people will see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
and to reveal: reveal glory LORD and to see: see all flesh together for lip LORD to speak: speak
6 A voice says, “Cry.” Another answers, “What should I cry?” “All flesh is grass, and all their covenant faithfulness is like the flower of the field.
voice to say to call: call out and to say what? to call: call out all [the] flesh grass and all kindness his like/as flower [the] land: country
7 The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass.
to wither grass to wither flower for spirit: breath LORD to blow in/on/with him surely grass [the] people
8 The grass withers, the flower wilts, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
to wither grass to wither flower and word God our to arise: establish to/for forever: enduring
9 Go up on a high mountain, Zion, bearer of good news. Shout out loud, Jerusalem. You who bring good news, raise your voice, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
upon mountain: mount high to ascend: rise to/for you to bear tidings Zion to exalt in/on/with strength voice your to bear tidings Jerusalem to exalt not to fear to say to/for city Judah behold God your
10 Look, the Lord Yahweh comes as a victorious warrior, and his strong arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and those he has rescued go before him.
behold Lord YHWH/God in/on/with strong to come (in): come and arm his to rule to/for him behold wages his with him and wages his to/for face: before his
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather in his arm the lambs, and carry them close to his heart, and will gently lead the ewes nursing their young.
like/as to pasture flock his to pasture in/on/with arm his to gather lamb and in/on/with bosom: embrace his to lift: bear to nurse to guide
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, measured the sky with the span of his hand, held the dust of the earth in a basket, weighed the mountains in scales, or the hills in a balance?
who? to measure in/on/with handful his water and heaven in/on/with span to measure and to sustain in/on/with third dust [the] land: country/planet and to weigh in/on/with balance mountain: mount and hill in/on/with balance
13 Who has comprehended the mind of Yahweh, or instructed him as his counselor?
who? to measure [obj] spirit LORD and man counsel his to know him
14 From whom did he ever receive instruction? Who taught him the correct way to do things, and taught him knowledge, or showed to him the way of understanding?
with who? to advise and to understand him and to learn: teach him in/on/with way justice and to learn: teach him knowledge and way: conduct understanding to know him
15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded like the dust on the scales; see, he weighs the isles as a speck.
look! nation like/as drop from bucket and like/as cloud balance to devise: count look! coastland like/as thin to lift
16 Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor its wild animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
and Lebanon nothing sufficiency to burn: burn and living thing his nothing sufficiency burnt offering
17 All the nations are insufficient before him; they are regarded by him as nothing.
all [the] nation like/as nothing before him from end and formlessness to devise: count to/for him
18 To whom then will you compare God? To what idol will you liken him?
and to(wards) who? to resemble [emph?] God and what? likeness to arrange to/for him
19 An idol! A craftsman casts it: The goldsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
[the] idol to pour artificer and to refine in/on/with gold to beat him and chain silver: money to refine
20 To make an offering one chooses a wood that will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan to make an idol that will not fall over.
[the] to impoverish contribution tree: wood not to rot to choose artificer wise to seek to/for him to/for to establish: establish idol not to shake
21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
not to know not to hear: hear not to tell from head: first to/for you not to understand foundation [the] land: country/planet
22 He is the one who sits above the horizon of the earth; and the inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to live in.
[the] to dwell upon circle [the] land: country/planet and to dwell her like/as locust [the] to stretch like/as curtain heaven and to spread them like/as tent to/for to dwell
23 He reduces rulers to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth insignificant.
[the] to give: make to rule to/for nothing to judge land: country/planet like/as formlessness to make
24 They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem has barely taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw.
also not to plant also not to sow also not to uproot in/on/with land: country/planet stock their and also to blow in/on/with them and to wither and tempest like/as stubble to lift: bear them
25 “To whom then will you compare me, whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.
and to(wards) who? to resemble me and be like to say holy
26 Look up at the sky! Who has created all these stars? He leads out their formations and calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might and by the strength of his power, not one is missing.
to lift: look height eye your and to see: see who? to create these [the] to come out: send in/on/with number army their to/for all their in/on/with name to call: call to from abundance strength and strong strength man not to lack
27 Why do you say, Jacob, and declare, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my God is not concerned about my vindication”?
to/for what? to say Jacob and to speak: speak Israel to hide way: conduct my from LORD and from God my justice my to pass
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his understanding.
not to know if: surely no not to hear: hear God forever: enduring LORD to create end [the] land: country/planet not to faint and not be weary/toil nothing search to/for understanding his
29 He gives strength to the tired; and to the weak he gives renewed energy.
to give: give to/for weary strength and to/for nothing strength strength to multiply
30 Even young people become tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall:
and to faint youth and be weary/toil and youth to stumble to stumble
31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength; they will soar with wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary; they will walk and not faint.
and to await LORD to pass strength to ascend: rise wing like/as eagle to run: run and not be weary/toil to go: walk and not to faint
