Isaiah 42

1 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

"Look, my servant I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul delights. I have put my Ruach on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.

2 not to cry and not to lift: loud and not to hear: hear in/on/with outside voice his

He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

3 branch: stem to crush not to break and flax faint not to quench her to/for truth: faithful to come out: send justice

He won't break a bruised reed. And he won't extinguish a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

4 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

He will not grow dim or be crushed, until he has established justice on the earth, and in his name the coastlands will hope."

5 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

Thus says God, the LORD, 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.

6 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

"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

7 to/for to open eye blind to/for to come out: send from locksmith prisoner from house: home prison to dwell darkness

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

8 I LORD he/she/it name my and glory my to/for another not to give: give and praise my to/for idol

"I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

9 [the] first: previous behold to come (in): come and new I to tell in/on/with before to spring to hear: proclaim [obj] you

Look, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."

10 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

Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the remotest parts of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands and their inhabitants.

11 to lift: loud wilderness and city his village to dwell Kedar to sing to dwell Sela from head: top mountain: mount to cry aloud

Let the desert and its cities cry out, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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

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

13 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

The LORD 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.

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

"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.

15 to destroy mountain: mount and hill and all vegetation their to wither and to set: make river to/for coastland and pool to wither

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

16 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

I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. I will lead them in paths that they do not know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

17 to turn back be ashamed shame [the] to trust in/on/with idol [the] to say to/for liquid you(m. p.) God our

"Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

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

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

19 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

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 the LORD's servant?

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

You see many things, but do not observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

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

It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

22 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

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them.'

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

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

24 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

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

25 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

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he did not know; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart."