- In chapter 51, Zion will be restored and the nations will be punished and the heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment!
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats.But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
Lift up
שְׂאוּ֩ (śə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take
your eyes
עֵֽינֵיכֶ֜ם (‘ê·nê·ḵem)
Noun - cdc | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain
to the heavens,
לַשָּׁמַ֨יִם (laš·šā·ma·yim)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky
and look
וְֽהַבִּ֧יטוּ (wə·hab·bî·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard
at
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to
the earth
הָאָ֣רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land
below;
מִתַּ֗חַת (mit·ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-m
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of
for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction
the heavens
שָׁמַ֜יִם (šā·ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky
will vanish
נִמְלָ֙חוּ֙ (nim·lā·ḥū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4414: To rub to pieces, pulverize, to disappear as dust, to salt
like smoke,
כֶּעָשָׁ֤ן (ke·‘ā·šān)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6227: Smoke
the earth
וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (wə·hā·’ā·reṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land
will wear out
תִּבְלֶ֔ה (tiḇ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay
like a garment,
כַּבֶּ֣גֶד (kab·be·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage
and its people
וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (wə·yō·šə·ḇe·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry
will die
יְמוּת֑וּן (yə·mū·ṯūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill
like [gnats].
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when
But My salvation
וִישֽׁוּעָתִי֙ (wî·šū·‘ā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity
will last forever,
תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה (tih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be
and My righteousness
וְצִדְקָתִ֖י (wə·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively
will never
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no
fail.
תֵחָֽת׃ (ṯê·ḥāṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2865: To prostrate, to break down, either, by violence, by confusion and fear
