< Isaiah 42 >
1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one — My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
look! servant/slave my to grasp in/on/with him chosen my to accept soul my to give: put spirit my upon him justice to/for nation to come out: send
2 He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.
not to cry and not to lift: loud and not to hear: hear in/on/with outside voice his
3 A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.
branch: stem to crush not to break and flax faint not to quench her to/for truth: faithful to come out: send justice
4 He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
not to grow dim and not to crush till to set: make in/on/with land: country/planet justice and to/for instruction his coastland to wait: hope
5 Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.
thus to say [the] God LORD to create [the] heaven and to stretch them to beat [the] land: country/planet and offspring her to give: give breath to/for people upon her and spirit to/for to go: walk in/on/with her
6 I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
I LORD to call: call to you in/on/with righteousness and to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand your and to watch you and to give: give you to/for covenant people to/for light nation
7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
to/for to open eye blind to/for to come out: send from locksmith prisoner from house: home prison to dwell darkness
8 I [am] Jehovah, this [is] My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.
I LORD he/she/it name my and glory my to/for another not to give: give and praise my to/for idol
9 The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
[the] first: previous behold to come (in): come and new I to tell in/on/with before to spring to hear: proclaim [obj] you
10 Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants.
to sing to/for LORD song new praise his from end [the] land: country/planet to go down [the] sea and fullness his coastland and to dwell their
11 The wilderness and its cities do lift up [the voice], The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.
to lift: loud wilderness and city his village to dwell Kedar to sing to dwell Sela from head: top mountain: mount to cry aloud
12 They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.
to set: put to/for LORD glory and praise his in/on/with coastland to tell
13 Jehovah as a mighty one goeth forth. As a man of war He stirreth up zeal, He crieth, yea, He shrieketh, Against His enemies He showeth Himself mighty.
LORD like/as mighty man to come out: come like/as man battle to rouse jealousy to shout also to cry upon enemy his to prevail
14 I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.
be silent from forever: antiquity be quiet to refrain like/as to beget to groan to pant and to long for unitedness
15 I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
to destroy mountain: mount and hill and all vegetation their to wither and to set: make river to/for coastland and pool to wither
16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
and to go: take blind in/on/with way: direction not to know in/on/with path not to know to tread them to set: make darkness to/for face: before their to/for light and crooked place to/for plain these [the] word: thing to make: do them and not to leave: forsake them
17 Removed backward — utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye [are] our gods.'
to turn back be ashamed shame [the] to trust in/on/with idol [the] to say to/for liquid you(m. p.) God our
18 Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
[the] deaf to hear: hear and [the] blind to look to/for to see: see
19 Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?
who? blind that if: except if: except servant/slave my and deaf like/as messenger my to send: depart who? blind like/as to ally and blind like/as servant/slave LORD
20 Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.
(to see: see *Q(K)*) many and not to keep: look at to open ear and not to hear: hear
21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
LORD to delight in because righteousness his to magnify instruction and be glorious
22 And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes — all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, 'Restore.'
and he/she/it people to plunder and to plunder to ensnare in/on/with cavern all their and in/on/with house: home prison to hide to be to/for plunder and nothing to rescue plunder and nothing to say to return: rescue
23 Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
who? in/on/with you to listen this to listen and to hear: hear to/for back
24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah — He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.
who? to give: give (to/for plunder *Q(K)*) Jacob and Israel to/for to plunder not LORD this to sin to/for him and not be willing in/on/with way: conduct his to go: walk and not to hear: obey in/on/with instruction his
25 And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!
and to pour: pour upon him rage face: anger his and strength battle and to kindle him from around and not to know and to burn: burn in/on/with him and not to set: consider upon heart