rotherham - Isaiah:50-52

rotherham@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus, saith Yahweh Where then is the set, oil of your mothers divorce, whom I have put away? Or, which of my creditors, is it to whom I have sold you? Lo! for your iniquities, have ye been sold, And for your transgressions, hath your mother been put away.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:2 @ Wherefore, When I came in, was there no one? When I called, was there none to answer? Is mine own hand, really shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or is there not, in me, strength to deliver? Lo! by my rebuke, I dry up the sea I make rivers a desert, Their fish Stinketh, for want of water, Yea dieth, for thirst:

rotherham@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with gloom, And, of sackcloth, make I their covering.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:4 @ My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse, He kept wakeningmorning by morning. He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken as do the instructed;

rotherham@Isaiah:50:5 @ My Lord, Yahweh, opened mine ear, And, I, was not rebellious, Away, turned I not:

rotherham@Isaiah:50:6 @ My back, gave I to smiters, and My cheeks, to them who pulled out the beard, My face, hid I not from insult and spitting.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:7 @ Because, My Lord, Yahweh, would help me, Therefore was I not deterred by insult, Therefore did I set my face like flint, And I knew that I should not be put to shame.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:8 @ At hand, is one who can justify me. Who will contend with me? let, us stand forth together, Who can accuse me? let him draw near to me!

rotherham@Isaiah:50:9 @ Lo! My Lord, Yahweh, will help me, Who is he that shall prove me lawless? Lo! they all, as a garment, shall fall to pieces, the moth shall consume them.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who among you, revereth Yahweh, Hearkening unto the voice of his Servant, That hath walked in dark places And hath had no gleam of light? Let him trust in the name of Yahweh, And lean upon his God.

rotherham@Isaiah:50:11 @ Lo! all ye that kindle a fire, That gird yourselves with fiery darts, Walk ye in the blaze of your own fire. And in the fiery darts ye have kindled, At my hand, hath this befallen you, In sorrow, shall ye lie down.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken unto me, Ye that pursue righteousness, Ye that seek Yahweh, Look well unto the rock whence ye were hewn, And unto the quarry whence ye were digged:

rotherham@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look well unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah who gave you birth, For he was, alone, when called I him, And, I blessed him that I might make him, many.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:3 @ For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh, Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:4 @ Attend unto me, O my people, And, O, my nation unto me give ear, For, instruction, from me, shall go forth, And, my justicefor a light of peoples, will I establish:

rotherham@Isaiah:51:5 @ At hand is my righteousness. Gone forth hath my salvation, And, mine own arms, unto the peoples, shall give justice, Upon me, Coastlands, shall wait, And for mine arm, shall they hope.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift upto the heavensyour eyes, And look around to the earth beneath Though, the heavens, like smoke, should have vanished And, the earth, like a garment, should fall to pieces, And, her inhabitants, in like manner, should die, Yet, my salvation, unto times age-abiding, shall continue, And, my righteousness, shall not be broken down.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:7 @ Hearken unto me ye who discern righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law, Do not fear the reproach of frail men, Nor at their revilings, be dismayed;

rotherham@Isaiah:51:8 @ For like a garment, shall they be eaten of the moth, And like wool, shall they he eaten of the larva; But, my righteousness, unto times age-abiding shall continue, And, my salvation, unto the remotest generation.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake put on strength, O arm of Yahweh, Awake, As in days of old, The generations of bygone ages: Art not thou that which Hewed down Rahab, Piercing the Crocodile?

rotherham@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art not thou that which dried up The Sea, The waters of the mighty Deep, That which made of the abysses of the sea a road for the passing over of the redeemed?

rotherham@Isaiah:51:11 @ Therefore, the ransomed of Yahweh, shall again come unto Zion, with shouts of triumph, With gladness age-abiding on their head, Joy, and gladness, shall overtake. Sorrow and sighing have fled away.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:12 @ II, am he that comforteth you, Who art, thou, that thou hast feared Frail man that dieth, and A son of the earthborn, who, as grass, shall be delivered up?

rotherham@Isaiah:51:13 @ That thou hast forgotten Yahweh thy maker, Who stretched out the heavens And founded the earth? That thou hast dreaded continually, all the day, by reason of the fury of the oppressor, in that he was ready to destroy? Where then is the fury of the oppressor?

rotherham@Isaiah:51:14 @ The captive hath hastened to be loosed, That be might not die in the pit. Neither should, his bread, be cut off.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:15 @ But, IYahweh, am thy God, Who threw into commotion the sea And the waves thereof roared, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:16 @ Therefore have I put my words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of my hand, have I covered thee, To plant the heavens, and To lay the foundations of the earth, and To say unto Zion My people, thou art!

rotherham@Isaiah:51:17 @ Rouse theerouse, thee stand up, O Jerusalem, Who hast drunk, at the hand of Yahweh, his cup of indignation: The goblet-cup of confusion, hast thou drunkhast thou drained.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to guide her, Among all the sons she hath borne, There is none to grasp her hand, Among all the sons she hath brought up.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:19 @ Twain, are the things befalling thee, Who will lament for thee? Wasting and destruction and f famine and sword By whom shall I comfort thee?

rotherham@Isaiah:51:20 @ Thy sons, have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets like a gazelle in a net, Who, indeed, are full of The indignation of Yahweh The rebuke of thy God.

rotherham@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, thou humbled one, And drunken but not with wine:

rotherham@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus, saith Thy Lord, Yahweh, Even thy God who pleadeth the cause of his people: Lo! I have taken, out of thy hand, the cup of confusion, As for the goblet-cup of mine indignation, Thou shalt not again drink it, any more;

rotherham@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into the hand of thy tormentors, Who said to thy soul, Bow down thus we may pass over, And so thou didst place as the ground, thy back, Yea as the street to such as were passing along.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, Put on thy strength, O Zion, Fur on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalemthou holy city, For there shah not again come into thee any more the uncircumcised and unclean.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake thyself from the dust arisesit down O Jerusalem, Loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive! daughter of Zion!

rotherham@Isaiah:52:3 @ For, thus, saith Yahweh, For nought, ye sold yourselves, And not with silver, shall ye be redeemed,

rotherham@Isaiah:52:4 @ For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, To Egypt, went down my people at first to sojourn there, But, Assyria, without cause, hath oppressed him.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now, therefore, what do I here? Demandeth Yahweh. That my people have been taken away for nought? They who rule them, do howl, Declareth Yahweh, And, continuallyall the day, is my Name brought into contempt.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:6 @ Therefore, shall my people acknowledge my Name: Therefore, in that day, shall they acknowledge that, I, am the same, even I who am speaking, Here, I am,

rotherham@Isaiah:52:7 @ How beautiful, upon the mountains are the feet Of him That bringeth good tidings, That publisheth peace, That bringeth good tidings of blessing, That publisheth salvation, That saith unto Zion, Thy God, hath become king.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:8 @ The voice of thy watchmen! They have uplifted a voice Together, do they renew the shout of triumph, For eye to eye, shall they see, When Yahweh returneth to Zion.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth, shout in triumph together, ye waste places of Jerusalem, For Yahweh Hath comforted his people, Hath redeemed Jerusalem:

rotherham@Isaiah:52:10 @ Yahweh hath bared his holy arm, in the eyes of all the nations, So shall all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:11 @ Away! away! come, forth from thence!Nought unclean, may ye touch, Come forth out of her midst, Purify yourselves, ye who are to carry the vessels of Yahweh;

rotherham@Isaiah:52:12 @ For, not in haste, shall ye come forth, Nor, by flight, shall ye journey, For, your van-guard, is Yahweh, And, your rear-guard, the God of Israel.

rotherham@Isaiah:52:13 @ Lo! my Servant, prospereth, He riseth, and is lifted up, and becometh very high:

rotherham@Isaiah:52:14 @ The more that Many, were amazed at thee, So marred, beyond any mans, was his appearance, And his form, beyond the sons of men,

rotherham@Isaiah:52:15 @ The more doth he startle Many nations, Before him, have kings closed their mouth, For, that which had not been related to them, have they seen, And that which they had not heard, haw they diligently considered.

rotherham@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who believed what we have heard? And, the arm of Yahweh, to whom was it revealed?