Yshá`Yâhuw (Isaiah) 40 part 2

Who is His Image? What is the plunder?

1. So to Whom will you compare the Power (’ël), and what Image shall you present for Him? 19. The craftsman casts the carved image, and the goldsmith plates it in gold, and smelts silver bindings; 20. An impoverished one chooses an offering of wood that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful engraver to prepare the carved image to not totter; 21. Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? Wasn't it taught to you from the beginning? Haven't you discerned the Foundations of the earth? 22. The One dwells in orbit of the earth (253) ['Iyyówv 22:14, Proverbs 8:27] and her locust-like inhabitants, the One stretching out the heavens like a curtain, and Who spreads them out like a tent to inhabit! 23. The One giving over those in command to become naught, Who makes the rulers of the earth as without form; 24. Indeed, they have hardly been planted, indeed, they have hardly been sown, indeed their stock has hardly taken root in the earth, and then He blows on them, and they wither and like the chaff, the tempest sweeps them away! 25. "So to whom shall you compare Me? Yet I am equivalent (254)," [Philipposíym 2:5-7] says the Pure One. 26. Raise high your eyes, and gaze; Who is the One Who created these? The One bringing out their host by number, Who calls to each of them by name? [Chanówkh 43:1] Due to the greatness of His powers and the might of His strength, not a one is missing. 27. Why, Ya'aqóv, do you say, and Yisrâ’ë ́l, do you state, "My way is concealed from Yâ-hwéh, and my case has been passed over by my Power"? 28. Haven’t you known, without question you have heard the Power of eternity is Yâ-hwéh, Creator of the uttermost parts of the earth? He shall not get tired or grow weary; there is no quantification of His understanding, 29. Who gives force to the tired, and who multiplies strength to the powerless; 30. Even youths shall grow tired and elect ones shall grow weaken to stumble, 31. But ones waiting for Yâ-hwéh shall transfer Force: they shall ascend a wing like the eagles, they shall run but they shall not grow weary [e.g. 1 Kings 18:46], they shall walk but they shall not get tired.

(253) This phrase in 'Ivríyth could also be translated "dwells in circuit of the earth", but the LXX says "retains the circuit of the earth". Recall Ychezqë ́’l saw His throne at the zenith of the heavens, and that per the laws of Yâ-hwéh, in Chanówkh, the greater luminary orb goes around the earth, which is true considering motion is relative in space, and the earth is chosen as the reference point. Also note the direction of His gathering at the last trumpet being from east to west.
(254) Usually mistranslated as a question, this statement comes from Yâhuwshúa`, the Pure One of Yisrâ’ë ́l, answering the question stated in verse 18, asking to Whom will you compare His Power (the Father). He is the Word of Yâ-hwéh, which the next chapter deals with also.

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