Isaiah 50:2
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Berean Study Bible
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

King James Bible
Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.

Hebrew
Why
מַדּ֨וּעַ (mad·dū·a‘)
Interrogative
Strong's 4069: Why? for what reason?

was no
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

one there
אִ֗ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

when I arrived?
בָּ֜אתִי (bā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

Why did no one
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

answer
עוֹנֶה֒ (‘ō·w·neh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

when I called?
קָרָֽאתִי֮ (qā·rā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

Is My hand
יָדִי֙ (yā·ḏî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

too short
הֲקָצ֨וֹר (hă·qā·ṣō·wr)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

to redeem you?
מִפְּד֔וּת (mip·pə·ḏūṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6304: Distinction, deliverance

Or
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

do I lack
אֵֽין־ (’ên-)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

the strength
כֹ֖חַ (ḵō·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

to deliver you?
לְהַצִּ֑יל (lə·haṣ·ṣîl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

Behold,
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

My rebuke
בְּגַעֲרָתִ֞י (bə·ḡa·‘ă·rā·ṯî)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1606: A chiding

dries up
אַחֲרִ֣יב (’a·ḥă·rîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2717: To parch, to desolate, destroy, kill

the sea;
יָ֗ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

I turn the rivers
נְהָרוֹת֙ (nə·hā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

into
אָשִׂ֤ים (’ā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

a desert;
מִדְבָּ֔ר (miḏ·bār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

the fish
דְּגָתָם֙ (də·ḡā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1710: A fish

rot
תִּבְאַ֤שׁ (tiḇ·’aš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 887: To smell bad, to be offensive

for lack
מֵאֵ֣ין (mê·’ên)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

of water
מַ֔יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and they die
וְתָמֹ֖ת (wə·ṯā·mōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

of thirst.
בַּצָּמָֽא׃ (baṣ·ṣā·mā)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6772: Thirst

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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