Isaiah 51:23
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

Young's Literal Translation
And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!’

King James Bible
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Hebrew
I will place it
וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ (wə·śam·tî·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

in the hands
בְּיַד־ (bə·yaḏ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027: A hand

of your tormentors,
מוֹגַ֔יִךְ (mō·w·ḡa·yiḵ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3013: To grieve

who
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

told
אָמְר֥וּ (’ā·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

you:
לְנַפְשֵׁ֖ךְ (lə·nap̄·šêḵ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

‘Lie down,
שְׁחִ֣י (šə·ḥî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate

so we can walk over you.’
וְנַעֲבֹ֑רָה (wə·na·‘ă·ḇō·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

And you made
וַתָּשִׂ֤ימִי (wat·tā·śî·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

your back
גֵּוֵ֔ךְ (gê·wêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1460: The back, the middle

like the ground,
כָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (ḵā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and like a street
וְכַח֖וּץ (wə·ḵa·ḥūṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

to be traversed.
לַעֹבְרִֽים׃ (la·‘ō·ḇə·rîm)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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