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| [1]Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on [to] power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to judgment we draw near.' |
[1]Keep silence before me, O islands, and let the people renew their strength: let them come near, and let them speak: let us come together into judgment. |
| [2]Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth [them] as dust [to] his sword, As driven stubble [to] his bow. |
[2]Who raised up justice from the east, and called him to his foot? And gave the nations before him, and subdued the kings? He gave them as dust to his sword, and as scattered stubble unto his bow. |
| [3]He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not. |
[3]He pursued them, and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feet. |
| [4]Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I [am] He. |
[4]Who hath wrought and done it? He that calleth the generations from the beginning. I the Lord am the first, and with the last I am the same. |
| [5]Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come. |
[5]The isles saw it, and did fear, and the ends of the earth were abashed, drew near, and came. |
| [6]Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.' |
[6]Every man helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong. |
| [7]And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother [with] a hammer, Him who is beating [on] an anvil, Saying, `For joining it [is] good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved! |
[7]So the workman comforted the founder, and he that smote with the hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the soldering, and he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved. |
| [8]-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover, |
[8]But thou, Israel, art my servant, and thou Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. |
| [9]Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou [art], I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee. |
[9]For I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and called thee before the chief thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant: I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. |
| [10]Be not afraid, for with thee I [am], Look not around, for I [am] thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness. |
[10]Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not afraid, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, and help thee, and will sustain thee with the right hand of my justice. |
| [11]Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee. |
[11]Behold, all they that provoke thee, shall be ashamed, and confounded: they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee, shall perish. |
| [12]Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee. |
[12]Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them: to wit, the men of thy strife, for they shall be as nothing, and the men that war against thee, as a thing of naught. |
| [13]For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.' |
[13]For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. |
| [14]Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
[14]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. |
| [15]Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest. |
[15]Behold, I will make thee a roller, and a new threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and bring them to powder, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
| [16]Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself. |
[16]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. |
| [17]The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not. |
[17]When the poor and the needy seek water, and there is none (their tongue faileth for thirst: I the Lord will hear them: I the God of Israel will not forsake them) |
| [18]I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water. |
[18]I will open rivers in the tops of the hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness as a pool of water, and the waste land as springs of water. |
| [19]I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together. |
[19]I will set in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wilderness the fir tree, the elm and the box tree together. |
| [20]So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it. |
[20]Therefore let them see and know, and let them consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. |
| [21]Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob. |
[21]Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith the king of Jacob. |
| [22]They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things -- what they [are] declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear. |
[22]Let them bring them forth, and let them tell us what shall come: let them show the former things what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them: either declare us things for to come. |
| [23]Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye [are] gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see [it] together. |
[23]Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good or do evil, that we may declare it, and behold it together. |
| [24]Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you. |
[24]Behold, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them. |
| [25]I have stirred up [one] from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in [on] prefects as [on] clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire. |
[25]I have raised up from the north, and he shall come: from the east sun shall he call upon my name, and shall come upon princes as upon clay, and as the potter treadeth mire under the foot. |
| [26]Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, `Righteous?' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings. |
[26]Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? Or before time, that we may say, He is righteous? Surely there is none that showeth: surely there is none that declareth: surely there is none that heareth your words. |
| [27]First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give, |
[27]I am the first, that saith to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that shall bring good tidings. |
| [28]And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word: |
[28]But when I beheld, there was none, and when I inquired of them, there was no counselor, and when I demanded of them, they answered not a word. |
| [29]`Lo, all of them [are] vanity, Nought [are] their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!' |
[29]Behold, they are all vanity: their work is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion. |