Esias 59
1 Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?
En verdad la mano de Yavé no se acortó para salvar, ni su oído se endureció para no escuchar.
2 Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away [his] face from you, so as not to have mercy [upon you].
Pero las iniquidades de ustedes los separaron de su ʼElohim y sus pecados ocultaron su rostro de ustedes para no escuchar.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
Porque sus manos están contaminadas de sangre, y sus dedos, con iniquidad. Sus labios dicen mentira, su lengua murmura perversidad.
4 None speaks justly, neither is there true judgement: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.
No hay quien clame por justicia. No hay quien discuta con fidelidad. Se apoyan en palabras vanas y dicen falsedad. Conciben perversidad y dan a luz iniquidad.
5 They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
Incuban huevos de víboras y tejen tela de araña. El que come de sus huevos muere y del que es aplastado sale una víbora.
6 Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.
Sus telarañas no sirven para ropa. Son tejidos que no cubren. Sus obras son de iniquidad y un hecho de violencia está en sus manos.
7 And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
Sus pies corren hacia el mal. Se apresuran a derramar sangre inocente. Sus pensamientos son de iniquidad. Desolación y destrucción hay en sus caminos.
8 and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgement in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
No conocen camino de paz, ni hay justicia en sus senderos. Sus caminos son torcidos. Cualquiera que ande por ellos no tendrá paz.
9 Therefore has judgement departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Por eso se aleja de nosotros la justicia y la rectitud no nos alcanza. Esperamos luz, pero hay tenebrosidad. [Esperamos] claridad, [pero] andamos en oscuridad.
10 They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
Como ciegos palpamos la pared. Andamos a tientas como si no tuviéramos ojos. Tropezamos tanto al mediodía como cuando llega la noche. Estamos como muertos entre los vigorosos.
11 They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgement, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
Todos nosotros gruñimos como osos, y gemimos con lástima como palomas. Esperamos justicia y no la hay, salvación, y está lejos de nosotros.
12 For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.
Porque nuestras transgresiones se multiplicaron delante de Ti. Nuestros pecados testifican contra nosotros, porque nuestras transgresiones permanecen con nosotros. Reconocemos nuestras iniquidades.
13 We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
Transgredimos y negamos a Yavé. Volvimos atrás y dejamos de seguir a nuestro ʼElohim. Hablamos de opresión y rebelión. Concebimos y expresamos de corazón palabras de mentira.
14 And we have turned judgement back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path].
La justicia es rechazada y la equidad está lejos. Porque la verdad tropezó en la calle y la rectitud no puede entrar.
15 And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgement.
La verdad está ausente. El que se aparta del mal se convierte en un despojo. Ahora Yavé vio esto. Es desagradable a Él que no haya justicia.
16 And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and established [them] with [his] mercy.
Vio que no había alguno y se asombró de que no haya quien se interponga. Lo salvó su brazo y lo afirmó su misma justicia.
17 And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,
Se cubrió con la coraza de justicia y con casco de salvación sobre su cabeza. Se envolvió en ropas de venganza y se cubrió de celo como con un manto.
18 as one about to render a recompence, [even] reproach to his adversaries.
Él retribuirá ira para sus enemigos según sus obras, recompensa para sus adversarios. Retribuirá por completo a las tierras de las costas.
19 So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they [that come] from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.
Desde el occidente temerán al Nombre de Yavé, y su gloria desde donde nace el sol, porque vendrá como río encajonado impulsado por el soplo de Yavé.
20 And the deliverer shall come for Sion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Vendrá el Redentor a Sion, a los que regresaron de la iniquidad de Jacob, dice Yavé.
21 And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.
Este será mi Pacto con ellos, dice Yavé: Mi Espíritu que derramé sobre ti. Mis Palabras que puse en tu boca no se apartarán jamás de tu boca, ni de la boca de tus descendientes, ni de la boca de los descendientes de ellos desde ahora y para siempre, dice Yavé.
