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 comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double 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 The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert 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 shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall 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 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall 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 The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory 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, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like 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 fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
to wither grass to wither flower and word God our to arise: establish to/for forever: enduring
9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, 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 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense 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 the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have 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, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and 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 directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
who? to measure [obj] spirit LORD and man counsel his to know him
14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed 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 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
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 to burn, nor its 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 like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
all [the] nation like/as nothing before him from end and formlessness to devise: count to/for him
18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
and to(wards) who? to resemble [emph?] God and what? likeness to arrange to/for him
19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts 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 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
[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 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you 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 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell 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 who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
[the] to give: make to rule to/for nothing to judge land: country/planet like/as formlessness to make
24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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 liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
and to(wards) who? to resemble me and be like to say holy
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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 speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
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 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
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 power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
to give: give to/for weary strength and to/for nothing strength strength to multiply
30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly 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 mount up 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
