Isaiah 48

1 to hear: hear this house: household Jacob [the] to call: call by in/on/with name Israel and from water Judah to come out: come [the] to swear in/on/with name LORD and in/on/with God Israel to remember not in/on/with truth: true and not in/on/with righteousness

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by the LORD’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

2 for from city [the] holiness to call: call by and upon God Israel to support LORD Hosts name his

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Armies is his name.

3 [the] first: previous from the past to tell and from lip my to come out: speak and to hear: proclaim them suddenly to make: do and to come (in): come

I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.

4 from to know I for severe you(m. s.) and sinew iron neck your and forehead your bronze

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

5 and to tell to/for you from the past in/on/with before to come (in): come to hear: proclaim you lest to say idol my to make: do them and idol my and drink offering my to command them

therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’

6 to hear: hear to see all her and you(m. p.) not to tell to hear: proclaim you new from now and to watch and not to know them

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

7 now to create and not from the past and to/for face: before day and not to hear: hear them lest to say behold to know them

They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

8 also not to hear: hear also not to know also from the past not to open ear your for to know to act treacherously to act treacherously and to transgress from belly: womb to call: call by to/for you

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9 because name my to prolong face: anger my and praise my to restrain to/for you to/for lest to cut: eliminate you

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

10 behold to refine you and not in/on/with silver: money to choose you in/on/with furnace affliction

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

11 because me because me to make: do for how? to profane/begin: profane and glory my to/for another not to give: give

For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

12 to hear: hear to(wards) me Jacob and Israel to call: call to my I he/she/it I first also I last

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

13 also hand: power my to found land: country/planet and right my to extend heaven to call: call to I to(wards) them to stand: stand together

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

14 to gather all your and to hear: hear who? in/on/with them to tell [obj] these LORD to love: lover him to make: do pleasure his in/on/with Babylon and arm his Chaldea

“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

15 I I to speak: speak also to call: call to him to come (in): bring him and to prosper way: journey his

I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 to present: come to(wards) me to hear: hear this not from head: first in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak from time to be she there I and now Lord YHWH/God to send: depart me and spirit his

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord GOD has sent me with his Spirit.

17 thus to say LORD to redeem: redeem your holy Israel I LORD God your to learn: teach you to/for to gain to tread you in/on/with way: conduct to go: went

The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

18 if to listen to/for commandment my and to be like/as river peace your and righteousness your like/as heap: wave [the] sea

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19 and to be like/as sand seed: children your and offspring belly your like/as grain his not to cut: eliminate and not to destroy name his from to/for face: before my

Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

20 to come out: come from Babylon to flee from Chaldea in/on/with voice cry to tell to hear: proclaim this to come out: send her till end [the] land: country/planet to say to redeem: redeem LORD servant/slave his Jacob

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

21 and not to thirst in/on/with desolation to go: take them water from rock to flow to/for them and to break up/open rock and to flow: flowing water

They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.

22 nothing peace to say LORD to/for wicked

“There is no peace”, says the LORD, “for the wicked.”