Isaiah 5
1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Ahora pues cantaré por mi amado el cantar de mi amado a su viña. Mi amado tenía una viña en un recuesto lugar fértil.
2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Habíala cercado, y despedregádola, y plantádola de plantas escogidas: había edificado en medio de ella una torre, y también asentado en ella un lagar; y esperaba que llevase uvas, y llevó uvas montesinas.
3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Ahora pues, vecinos de Jerusalem, y varones de Judá, juzgád ahora entre mí y mi viña.
4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
¿Qué más se había de hacer a mi viña, que yo no hice en ella? ¿Cómo esperando yo que llevase uvas, llevó uvas montesinas?
5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Ahora, pues, mostraros he lo que yo haré a mi viña: quitarle he su vallado, y será para ser pacida: aportillaré su cerca, y será para ser hollada.
6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Haré que quede desierta: no será podada, ni cavada; y crecerá el cardo, y las espinas; y aun a las nubes mandaré que no lluevan sobre ella lluvia.
7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Ciertamente la viña de Jehová de los ejércitos la casa de Israel es, y todo hombre de Judá planta suya deleitosa. Esperaba de ahí juicio, y he aquí, opresión: justicia, y he aquí, clamor.
8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
¡Ay de los que juntan casa con casa, y allegan heredad a heredad, hasta acabar el término! ¿Habitaréis vosotros solos en medio de la tierra?
9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
Esto, a los oídos de Jehová de los ejércitos. Si las muchas casas no fueren asoladas, las grandes y hermosas sin morador.
10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Y aun, si diez huebras de viña no dieren una arroba, y una hanega de simiente la décima parte.
11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
¡Ay de los que se levantan de mañana para seguir la embriaguez, que se están hasta la noche, hasta que el vino los enciende!
12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Y en sus banquetes hay arpas, vihuelas, tamboriles, flautas, y vino; y no miran la obra de Jehová, ni ven la obra de sus manos.
13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
Por tanto mi pueblo fue llevado cautivo, porque no tuvo ciencia; y su gloria pereció de hambre, y su multitud se secó de sed.
14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it. (Sheol h7585)
Por tanto el infierno ensanchó su alma, y sin medida extendió su boca; y su gloria, y su multitud descendió allá; y su fausto, y el que se holgó en él. (Sheol h7585)
15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
Y todo hombre será humillado, y todo varón será abatido, y los ojos de los altivos serán abajados.
16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
Mas Jehová de los ejércitos será ensalzado con juicio, y el Dios santo será santificado con justicia.
17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
Y los corderos serán apacentados según su costumbre, y extraños comerán las gruesas desamparadas.
18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
¡Ay de los que traen tirando la iniquidad con sogas de vanidad, y el pecado como con látigos de carreta:
19 Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
De los que dicen: Venga ya: dése priesa su obra, y veamos: acérquese, y venga el consejo del santo de Israel, para que sepamos!
20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
¡Ay de los que a lo malo dicen bueno, y a lo bueno malo: que hacen de la luz tinieblas, y de las tinieblas luz: que tornan de lo amargo dulce, y de lo dulce amargo!
21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
¡Ay de los sabios en sus ojos, y de los que son prudentes delante de si mismos!
22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
¡Ay de los que son valientes para beber vino, y varones fuertes para mezclar bebida:
23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Los que dan por justo al impío por cohechos, y al justo quitan su justicia!
24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Por tanto, como la lengua del fuego consume las aristas, y la paja es deshecha de la llama, así será su raíz como podrición, y su flor se desvanecerá como polvo; porque desecharon la ley de Jehová de los ejércitos, y abominaron la palabra del santo de Israel.
25 For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
Por esta causa se encendió el furor de Jehová contra su pueblo; y extendiendo sobre él su mano le hirió, y los montes se estremecieron, y el cuerpo de ellos cortado en piezas fue echado en medio de las calles; y con todo esto no ha cesado su furor, antes todavía su mano está extendida.
26 And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.
Y alzará pendón a naciones de lejos, y silbará al que está en el cabo de la tierra, y, he aquí que vendrá ligero y liviano.
27 There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.
No habrá entre ellos cansado, ni que tropiece: ninguno se dormirá, ni le tomará sueño: a ninguno se le desatará el cinto de los lomos, ni se le romperá la correa de sus zapatos.
28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.
Sus saetas aguzadas, y todos sus arcos entesados: las uñas de sus caballos parecerán como de pedernal, y las ruedas de sus carros como torbellino.
29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
Su bramido como de león, bramará como leoncillos: batirá los dientes, y arrebatará la presa: apañará los despojos, y nadie se los quitará.
30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
Y bramará sobre él en aquel día como bramido de la mar: entonces mirará hacia la tierra, y he aquí tinieblas de tribulación, y en sus cielos se oscurecerá la luz.
