Isaiah 37
1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
Aconteció pues que el rey Ezequías, oído esto, rompió sus vestidos, y cubierto de saco vino a la casa de Jehová.
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Y envió a Eliacim mayordomo, y a Sobna escriba, y a los ancianos de los sacerdotes cubiertos de sacos a Isaías profeta, hijo de Amós.
3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
Los cuales le dijeron: Ezequías dice así: día de angustia, de reprensión, y de blasfemia es este día; porque los hijos han llegado hasta la rotura, y no hay fuerza en la que pare.
4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
Quizá oirá Jehová tu Dios las palabras de Rabsaces, al cual envió el rey de Asiria su señor a blasfemar al Dios vivo, y a reprender con las palabras que oyó Jehová tu Dios: alza pues oración tú por los restos que han aun quedado.
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Vinieron pues los siervos de Ezequías a Isaías.
6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
Y díjoles Isaías: Diréis así a vuestro señor: Jehová dice así: No temas por las palabras que has oído, con las cuales me han blasfemado los siervos del rey de Asiria.
7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
He aquí que yo doy en él un espíritu, y oirá un rumor, y volverse ha a su tierra; y yo haré que en su tierra caiga a cuchillo.
8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
Vuelto pues Rabsaces halló al rey de Asiria, que batía a Lebna; porque ya había oído que se había apartado de Laquis.
9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
Mas oyendo decir de Taraca, rey de Etiopía: He aquí que ha salido para hacerte guerra: en oyéndolo, envió mensajeros a Ezequías, diciendo:
10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Diréis así a Ezequías, rey de Judá: No te engañe tu Dios, en quien tú confías, diciendo: Jerusalem no será entregada en mano del rey de Asiria.
11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
He aquí que tu oíste lo que hicieron los reyes de Asiria a todas las tierras, como las destruyeron: ¿escaparte has tú?
12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
¿Libraron los dioses de las naciones a los que destruyeron mis antepasados, a Gozán, y Harán, Rezef, y a los hijos de Edén, que moraban en Telasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
¿Dónde está el rey de Hamat, y el rey de Arfad, el rey de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, de Ana, y de Hava?
14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
Y tomó Ezequías las cartas de las manos de los mensajeros, y leyólas, y subió a la casa de Jehová, y extendiólas delante de Jehová.
15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
Entonces Ezequías oró a Jehová, diciendo:
16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, que moras entre los querubines, tú eres Dios solo sobre todos los reinos de la tierra: tú hiciste los cielos, y la tierra.
17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
Inclina, o! Jehová, tu oído, y oye: abre, o! Jehová, tus ojos, y mira, y oye todas las palabras de Senaquerib, el cual envió a blasfemar al Dios viviente.
18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
Ciertamente, o! Jehová, los reyes de Asiria destruyeron todas las tierras, y sus comarcas;
19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Y a los dioses de ellos pusieron en fuego; porque no eran dioses, mas obra de manos de hombre, madero y piedra; por eso los deshicieron.
20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
Ahora pues, Jehová Dios nuestro, líbranos de su mano, para que todos los reinos de la tierra conozcan, que tú, o! Jehová, eres solo.
21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
Entonces Isaías, hijo de Amós, envió a decir a Ezequías: Jehová Dios de Israel dice así: Acerca de lo que me rogaste de Senaquerib, rey de Asiria;
22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
Esto es lo que Jehová habló de él: ¿Háte menospreciado? ¿ha hecho escarnio de ti, o! virgen hija de Sión? ¿meneó su cabeza a tus espaldas, o! hija de Jerusalem?
23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
¿A quién injuriaste, y a quién blasfemaste? ¿Contra quién alzaste tu voz, y alzaste tus ojos en alto? Contra el alto Santo de Israel.
24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
Por mano de tus siervos denostaste al Señor, y dijiste: Yo con la multitud de mis carros subiré a las alturas de los montes, a las cuestas del Líbano: cortaré sus altos cedros, sus hayas escogidas: después vendré a lo alto de su fin, al monte de su Carmelo.
25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
Yo cavé, y bebí las aguas: con las pisadas de mis pies secaré todos los ríos de munición.
26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
¿No has oído decir, que yo la hice de luengo tiempo, que yo la formé de días antiguos? Ahora la he hecho venir, y será para destrucción de ciudades fuertes en montones de asolamiento.
27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
Y sus moradores, cortos de manos, quebrantados, y avergonzados: serán grama del campo, y hortaliza verde: yerba de los tejados, que antes de madura se seca.
28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
Tu estada, tu salida, y tu entrada, he entendido; y tu furor contra mí.
29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Porque te airaste contra mí, y tu estruendo ha subido a mis oídos: pondré pues mi anzuelo en tu nariz, y mi freno en tus labios, y hacerte he tornar por el camino por donde veniste.
30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
Y esto te será por señal: Comerás este año lo que nace de suyo; y el año segundo también lo que nace de suyo; y el año tercero sembraréis, y segaréis, y plantaréis viñas, y comeréis el fruto de ellos.
31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
Y lo que hubiere escapado de la casa de Judá, tornará a echar raíz abajo, y hará fruto arriba.
32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Porque de Jerusalem saldrán residuos, y del monte de Sión escapada. El zelo de Jehová de los ejércitos hará esto.
33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
Por tanto así dice Jehová acerca del rey de Asiria: No entrará en esta ciudad, ni echará saeta en ella: no vendrá delante de ella escudo, ni será echado sobre ella baluarte.
34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
Por el camino que vino, se tornará, y no entrará en esta ciudad, dice Jehová.
35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
Y yo ampararé a esta ciudad para salvarla por amor de mí, y por amor de David mi siervo.
36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
Y salió el ángel de Jehová, e hirió ciento y ochenta y cinco mil en el campo de los Asirios; y cuando se levantaron por la mañana, he aquí que todo era cuerpos de muertos.
37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
Entonces Senaquerib rey de Asiria partiéndose se fue, y se tornó; e hizo su morada en Nínive.
38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
Y acaeció, que estando orando en el templo de Nisroc su dios, Adramelec y Sarezer sus hijos le hirieron a cuchillo, y huyeron a la tierra de Armenia; y reinó en su lugar Asaradón su hijo.
