Isaiah 42

1 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

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 will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it 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 He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

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 will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

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 God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

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, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the 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 blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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 Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved 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 Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

[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 Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands 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 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

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 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

to set: put to/for LORD glory and praise his in/on/with coastland to tell

13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

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 been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

be silent from forever: antiquity be quiet to refrain like/as to beget to groan to pant and to long for unitedness

15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

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 I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake 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 “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

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 “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

[the] deaf to hear: hear and [the] blind to look to/for to see: see

19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

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 You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

(to see: see *QK) many and not to keep: look at to open ear and not to hear: hear

21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

LORD to delight in because righteousness his to magnify instruction and be glorious

22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

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 is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

who? in/on/with you to listen this to listen and to hear: hear to/for back

24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

who? to give: give (to/for plunder *QK) 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 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it 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