Keep silence
before me, O islands;
and let the people
renew
their strength:
let them come near;
then let them speak:
let us come near
together
to judgment.
Who raised up
the righteous
man from the east,
called
him to his foot,
gave
the nations
before
him, and made him rule
over kings?
he gave
them as the dust
to his sword,
and as driven
stubble
to his bow.
He pursued
them, and passed
safely;
even by the way
that he had not gone
with his feet.
Who hath wrought
and done
it, calling
the generations
from the beginning?
I the LORD,
the first,
and with the last;
I am he.
The isles
saw
it, and feared;
the ends
of the earth
were afraid,
drew near,
and came.
They helped
every one
his neighbour;
and every one said
to his brother,
Be of good courage.
So the carpenter
encouraged
the goldsmith,
and he that smootheth
with the hammer
him that smote
the anvil,
saying,
It is ready
for the sodering:
and he fastened
it with nails,
that it should not be moved.
hammer
σφύρῃ
sphyrē
juncture
σύμβλημα
symblēma
strengthen
ἰσχύρωσαν
ischyrōsan
But thou, Israel,
art my servant,
Jacob
whom I have chosen,
the seed
of Abraham
my friend.
Thou whom I have taken
from the ends
of the earth,
and called
thee from the chief men
thereof, and said
unto thee, Thou art my servant;
I have chosen
thee, and not cast thee away.
lookout-place
σκοπιῶν
skopiōn
Fear
thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed;
for I am thy God:
I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help
thee; yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand
of my righteousness.
Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed
and confounded:
they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive
with thee shall perish.
Thou shalt seek
them, and shalt not find
them, even them
that contended
with thee: they that war
against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
behave ill at wine
παροινήσουσιν
paroinēsousin
urge war against
ἀντιπολεμοῦντές
antipolemountes
For I the LORD
thy God
will hold
thy right hand,
saying
unto thee, Fear
not; I will help
thee.
Fear
not, thou worm
Jacob,
and ye men
of Israel;
I will help
thee, saith
the LORD,
and thy redeemer,
the Holy One
of Israel.
Behold, I will make
thee a new
sharp
threshing
instrument having
teeth:
thou shalt thresh
the mountains,
and beat them small,
and shalt make
the hills
as chaff.
carriage
ἁμάξης
hamaxēs
like a saw
πριστηροειδεῖς
pristēroeideis
thresh
λεπτυνεῖς
leptyneis
dust
χνοῦν
chnoun
Thou shalt fan
them, and the wind
shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind
shall scatter
them: and thou shalt rejoice
in the LORD,
and shalt glory
in the Holy One
of Israel.
squall descending from above
καταιγὶς
kataigis
When the poor
and needy
seek
water,
and there is none, and their tongue
faileth
for thirst,
I the LORD
will hear
them, I the God
of Israel
will not forsake
them.
thirst
δίψης
dipsēs
I will open
rivers
in high places,
and fountains
in the midst
of the valleys:
I will make
the wilderness
a pool
of water,
and the dry
land
springs
of water.
plain
πεδίων
pediōn
low ground by rivers
ἕλη
helē
aqueduct
ὑδραγωγοῖς
hydragōgois
I will plant
in the wilderness
the cedar,
the shittah tree,
and the myrtle,
and the oil
tree;
I will set
in the desert
the fir tree,
and the pine,
and the box tree
together:
That they may see,
and know,
and consider,
and understand
together,
that the hand
of the LORD
hath done
this, and the Holy One
of Israel
hath created
it.
have in one's thoughts
ἐννοηθῶσιν
ennoēthōsin
invent
κατέδειξεν
katedeixen
Produce
your cause,
saith
the LORD;
bring forth
your strong
reasons, saith
the King
of Jacob.
Let them bring them forth,
and shew
us what shall happen:
let them shew
the former things,
what they be, that we may consider
them, and know
the latter end
of them; or declare
us things for to come.
say
say
Shew
the things that are to come
hereafter,
that we may know
that ye are gods:
yea, do good,
or do evil,
that we may be dismayed,
and behold
it together.
Behold, ye are of nothing,
and your work
of nought:
an abomination
is he that chooseth
you.
I have raised up
one from the north,
and he shall come:
from the rising
of the sun
shall he call
upon my name:
and he shall come
upon princes
as upon morter,
and as the potter
treadeth
clay.
Who hath declared
from the beginning,
that we may know?
and beforetime,
that we may say,
He is righteous?
yea, there is none that sheweth,
yea, there is none that declareth,
yea, there is none that heareth
your words.
The first
shall say to Zion,
Behold,
behold
them: and I will give
to Jerusalem
one that bringeth good tidings.
For I beheld,
and there was no man;
even among them, and there was no counsellor,
that, when I asked
of them, could answer
a word.
Behold, they are all vanity;
their works
are nothing:
their molten images
are wind
and confusion.
