rotherham - Isaiah:41-42

rotherham@Isaiah:41:1 @ Be silent unto me, O ye Coastlands, lands, And let the Races of Men renew their strength, Let them approach, then, let them speak, Together, for controversy, let us draw near:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who roused up one from the East, In righteousness, called him to his feet, Set before him nations And over kings, caused him to rule, His sword, made like dust, His bow like driven chaff:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursued them passed along safely, Upon the path of his own feet, entered he not?

rotherham@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who hath wrought and performed, Calling the generations, in advance? I, Yahweh, First, And with them who are last, I, am the Same!

rotherham@Isaiah:41:5 @ Coastlands have seen, so they fear, The ends of the earth, are in dread, They have drawn near, and have come:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:6 @ Every man, to his neighbour, giveth help, And to his brother, saith Take courage!

rotherham@Isaiah:41:7 @ So, the carver, hath encouraged, the goldsmith, he that maketh smooth with the hammer, him that smiteth the anvil, Saying of the welding, It is, good, Then hath he fastened it with nailsit must not totter!

rotherham@Isaiah:41:8 @ But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The seed of Abraham my loving one;

rotherham@Isaiah:41:9 @ Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And from the extremities thereof, have called thee, And said to thee, My Servant, thou! I have chosen thee and not cast thee off,

rotherham@Isaiah:41:10 @ Do not fear, for with thee, I am! Look not around, for, I, am thy God, I have emboldened thee, Yea I have helped thee, Yea I have upheld thee with my righteous right-hand.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:11 @ Lo! they shall turn pale and be ashamed All they who have been incensed against thee, They shall become as nothing and perish The men who have been thine accusers:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, but shalt not find them The men who have contended with thee, They shall become as nothing, and as a thing of nought The men who have warred against thee;

rotherham@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, Yahweh thy God am firmly grasping thy right-hand, Who am saying unto thee Do not fear! I, have become thy helper!

rotherham@Isaiah:41:14 @ Do not fear, Thou worm Jacob, Ye men of Israel, I, have become thy helper, Declareth Yahweh, And thy redeemer The Holy One of Israel.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:15 @ Lo! I have made of thee a new pointed threshing sledge, owning teeth, Thou shalt thresh mountains and crush them, And, hillslike chaff, shalt thou make:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:16 @ Thou shalt fan them and, a wind, shall carry them away, And, a whirlwind, scatter, them, But, thou, shalt exult in Yahweh, And, in the Holy One of Israel, shalt thou boast thyself.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:17 @ As for the oppressed and the needy. Seeking water when there is none, Their tongue with thirst being parched IYahweh, will answer them, The God of Israel, I will not forsake them:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open, On bare hills rivers, and In the midst of plains, fountains, I will make The desert, a lake of water, and Parched land, springs of water;

rotherham@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will set in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm-oak, and sherbin-cedar, together

rotherham@Isaiah:41:20 @ That men may see and observe and consider and understand at once, That, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this, That the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:21 @ Bring near your contention, Saith Yahweh, Advance your defences, Saith the King of Jacob:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them advance them, and tell us, What shall happen, Things known in advancewhat they were, tell ye, That we may lay them to our heart and mark the after-story of them, Or, things yet to come, let us hear:

rotherham@Isaiah:41:23 @ Tell ye the events which shall be here-after, That we may perceive that gods, ye are, Surely ye must do somethinggood or bad, That we may be amazed and behold it, at once.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:24 @ Lo! ye, are, of nought, And your work is a puff of breath, An abomination, he that chooseth you!

rotherham@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have roused up one from the North, and he hath come, From the rising of the sun, calleth he on my Name, And he hath come, on deputies, as though they were mortar, And as a potter treadeth clay.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who hath told in advance, that we might know, And beforetime, that we might say Right! Nay, there is none who can tell. Nay, there is none who can let us hear, Nay, there is none who can understand what ye utter.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:27 @ He who is First,, To Zion, Lo! there they are! And to Jerusalem, A herald of good-tidings, do I give.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:28 @ So I look, And there is not, a Man! Even among these And there is none to advise, That, when I ask them, can answer a word.

rotherham@Isaiah:41:29 @ Lo! as to all of them, Vanitynothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!

rotherham@Isaiah:42:1 @ Lo! my Servant, I will uphold him, My chosen, well-pleased is my soul, I have put my spirit upon him, Justiceto the nations, will he bring forth:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:2 @ He will not cry out nor will he speak loud, Nor cause to be heard, in the street, his voice:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:3 @ Cane that is crushed, will he not break, And wick that is fading, will he not quench, Faithfully, will he bring forth justice:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:4 @ He will not fade, nor will he be crushed, Until he establish, in the earth, justice, And for his instruction, Coastlands, wait.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus, saith GOD himself Yahweh, Creator of the heavens that stretched them forth, Out-spreader of earth, and the products thereof, Giver of breath to the people thereon, And of spirit to them who walk therein,

rotherham@Isaiah:42:6 @ IYahweh, have called thee in righteousness, And will firmly grasp thy hand, And will keep thee And give thee As the covenant of a people, As the light of nations:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:7 @ To open eyes that are blind, To bring forth Out of the dungeon the captive Out of the prison, the dwellers in darkness.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:8 @ I, am Yahweh, that, is my Name, And, my glory, to another, will I not give, Nor my praise to images.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:9 @ Things told in advance, lo! they have come to pass, And new things, am I telling, Ere yet they spring forth, I let, you, hear them.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to Yahweh, a song that is new, His praise, from the end of the earth, Ye that go down to the sea, and the fulness thereof, The Coastlands and ye who dwell therein.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wilderness shout, and the cities thereof, The villages wherein dwelleth Kedar, Let the inhabitants of the crag, raise shouts of triumph, From the top of the mountains, let them cry aloud:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:12 @ Let them render unto Yahweh, glory, And, his praise, in the Coastlands let them tell.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:13 @ Yahweh, as a hero, goeth forth, As a man of war, he stirreth up jealousy, He giveth a cry, yea he raiseth a war-cry, Over his foes, he showeth his strength.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have held my peace from age-past times, I kept still, I restrained myself, As a travailing woman, I pant, I breathe hard and gasp, all at once!

rotherham@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will lay waste mountains, and hills, And all their vegetation, will I wither, And I will make rivers to be shores, And lakes, will I dry up:

rotherham@Isaiah:42:16 @ Thus will I lead the blind, by a way they know not, In paths they know not, will I guide them, I will make the place that was dark before them to be, light. And crooked ways, to be, straight, These things, have I done unto them, And have not forsaken them.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:17 @ They have drawn back They turn very pale Who have been trusting in a graven image, Who have been saying to a molten image, Ye, are our gods!

rotherham@Isaiah:42:18 @ Ye deaf hear! And ye blind look around that ye may see, Who is blind if not my Servant? Or deaf, like, my messenger whom I send?

rotherham@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who is, blind, like an intimate friend? Or blind like the Servant of Yahweh?

rotherham@Isaiah:42:20 @ Seeing many things, yet thou heedest not, Opening the ears yet he heareth not,

rotherham@Isaiah:42:21 @ Yahweh, is well-pleased for his own righteousness sake, He magnifieth instruction and maketh it majestic.

rotherham@Isaiah:42:22 @ But, that, is a people preyed upon and plundered, Snared in holes. Jail of them, And, in houses of restraint, concealed, They have become a prey, and there is none to deliver, A booty, and there is none to say Restore!

rotherham@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you, will give ear to this, Let him hearken and hear, for an aftertime?

rotherham@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave, as a booty, Jacob. And, Israel, to them who were ready to take prey? Was it not Yahweh I? He against whom we have sinned, And they were not willing, in his ways, to walk, Neither hearkened they to his instruction?

rotherham@Isaiah:42:25 @ So he hath poured out, upon him, the glow of his anger, and the strength of battle; And it hath set him aflame round about, yet he knoweth it not, And it hath kindled upon him yet he layeth it not to heart.

rotherham@Isaiah:43:1 @ Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh Creating thee, O Jacob, and Fashioning thee O Israel, Do not fear, For I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name. Mine, thou art!