1 Samuel 20
1 Then David fled from Naioth, which is in Ramah, and he went and said before Jonathan: “What have I done? What is my iniquity, or what is my sin, against your father, so that he would seek my life?”
David huyó de Naiot, en Ramá, y vino a decir a Jonatán: “¿Qué he hecho? ¿Cuál es mi iniquidad? ¿Cuál es mi pecado ante tu padre, para que busque mi vida?”
2 And he said to him: “May this not be! You shall not die. For my father will not do anything, great or small, without first revealing it to me. Therefore, has my father concealed this word solely from me? By no means shall this be!”
Él le dijo: “Ni mucho menos; no morirás. He aquí que mi padre no hace nada, ni grande ni pequeño, sino que me lo revela. ¿Por qué iba mi padre a ocultarme esto? No es así”.
3 And he swore again to David. And David said: “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your sight, and so he will say, ‘Let Jonathan not know this, lest he be saddened.’ So truly, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, there is only one step (if I may say it) separating me from death.”
Además, David juró y dijo: “Tu padre sabe bien que he hallado gracia ante tus ojos, y dice: ‘No dejes que Jonatán lo sepa, para que no se aflija’; pero en verdad, vive Yahvé y vive tu alma, que sólo hay un paso entre yo y la muerte.”
4 And Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul will tell me, I will do for you.”
Entonces Jonatán dijo a David: “Todo lo que tu alma desee, lo haré por ti”.
5 Then David said to Jonathan: “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I am accustomed to sit in a seat beside the king to eat. Therefore, permit me that I may be hidden in the field, until the evening of the third day.
David dijo a Jonatán: “He aquí que mañana es luna nueva, y no debo dejar de cenar con el rey; pero déjame que me esconda en el campo hasta el tercer día por la tarde.
6 If your father, looking around, will seek me, you shall respond to him: ‘David asked me if he may hurry to Bethlehem, his own city. For there are solemn sacrifices in that place for all of his tribe together.’
Si tu padre me echa de menos, dile: ‘David me ha pedido encarecidamente que le deje ir a Belén, su ciudad, porque allí se celebra el sacrificio anual para toda la familia’.
7 If he will say, ‘It is well,’ then your servant will have peace. But if he will be angry, know that his malice has reached its height.
Si él dice: “Está bien”, tu siervo tendrá paz; pero si se enoja, debes saber que el mal está determinado por él.
8 Therefore, show mercy to your servant. For you have brought me, your servant, into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is any iniquity in me, you may kill me, and you shall not lead me in to your father.”
Trata, pues, con benevolencia a tu siervo, porque lo has llevado a un pacto de Yahvé contigo; pero si hay iniquidad en mí, mátame tú mismo, pues ¿para qué me has de llevar a tu padre?”
9 And Jonathan said: “May this be far from you. For certainly, if I ever realized that any wickedness was determined by my father against you, I would not be able to do anything other than report it to you.”
Jonatán dijo: “Lejos de ti, pues si yo supiera que el mal está determinado por mi padre a venir sobre ti, ¿no te lo diría?”
10 And David responded to Jonathan, “Who will repeat it to me, if your father may perhaps answer you harshly about me?”
Entonces David dijo a Jonatán: “¿Quién me dirá si tu padre te responde con rudeza?”
11 And Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” And when they both had gone out into the field,
Jonatán dijo a David: “¡Ven! Salgamos al campo”. Ambos salieron al campo.
12 Jonathan said before David: “O Lord, God of Israel, if I will discover a decision by my father, tomorrow, or the day after, and if there will be anything good concerning David, and yet I do not immediately send to you and make it known to you,
Jonatán dijo a David: “Por Yahvé, el Dios de Israel, cuando haya sondeado a mi padre mañana a esta hora, o al tercer día, he aquí que si hay bien hacia David, ¿no enviaré entonces a ti y te lo revelaré?
13 may the Lord do these things to Jonathan, and may he add these other things. But if my father will have persevered in malice against you, I will reveal it to your ear, and I will send you away, so that you may go in peace, and so that the Lord may be with you, just as he was with my father.
Que Yahvé haga así con Jonatán y más aún, si a mi padre le agrada haceros mal, si no os lo revelo y os envío, para que vayáis en paz. Que Yahvé esté contigo como ha estado con mi padre.
14 And if I live, you shall show the mercy of the Lord to me. Yet truly, if I die,
No sólo me mostrarás la bondad amorosa de Yahvé mientras viva, para que no muera;
15 you shall not take away your mercy from my house, even forever, when the Lord will have rooted out the enemies of David, each and every one of them, from the earth. May he take Jonathan from his house, and may the Lord require it from the hands of the enemies of David.”
sino que tampoco cortarás tu bondad de mi casa para siempre, no, cuando Yahvé haya cortado a cada uno de los enemigos de David de la superficie de la tierra.”
16 Therefore, Jonathan formed a covenant with the house of David. And the Lord required it from the hands of the enemies of David.
Entonces Jonatán hizo un pacto con la casa de David, diciendo: “Yahvé lo exigirá de la mano de los enemigos de David.”
17 And Jonathan continued to swear to David, because he loved him. For he loved him like his own soul.
Jonatán hizo que David volviera a jurar, por el amor que le tenía, pues lo amaba como a su propia alma.
18 And Jonathan said to him: “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be sought.
Entonces Jonatán le dijo: “Mañana es luna nueva, y se te echará de menos, porque tu asiento estará vacío.
19 For your seat will be empty until the day after tomorrow. Therefore, you shall descend quickly, and you shall go to the place where you are to be hidden, on a day when it is lawful to work, and you shall remain beside the stone that is called Ezel.
Cuando hayas permanecido tres días, baja rápidamente y ven al lugar donde te escondiste cuando esto empezó, y quédate junto a la piedra Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows near it, and I will cast them as if I were practicing for myself toward a mark.
Yo lanzaré tres flechas a su lado, como si disparara a una marca.
21 Also, I will send a boy, saying to him, ‘Go and bring the arrows to me.’
He aquí que yo enviaré al muchacho, diciendo: “¡Ve, busca las flechas! Si le digo al muchacho: ‘Mira, las flechas están a este lado tuyo. Tómalas’; entonces ven, porque hay paz para ti y no hay peligro, vive Yahvé.
22 If I will say to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are before you, take them up,’ you shall approach before me, because there is peace for you, and there is nothing evil, as the Lord lives. But if I will have spoken to the boy in this way, ‘Behold, the arrows are away from you,’ then you shall go away in peace, for the Lord has released you.
Pero si le digo al muchacho: ‘He aquí que las flechas están más allá de ti’, entonces vete, porque Yahvé te ha enviado.
23 Now about the word that you and I have spoken, may the Lord be between you and me, even forever.”
En cuanto al asunto del que tú y yo hemos hablado, he aquí que Yahvé está entre tú y yo para siempre.”
24 Therefore, David was hidden in the field. And the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.
Entonces David se escondió en el campo. Cuando llegó la luna nueva, el rey se sentó a comer.
25 And when the king had sat down on his chair, (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat beside Saul, and David’s place appeared empty.
El rey se sentó en su silla, como otras veces, incluso en el asiento junto a la pared; y Jonatán se puso de pie, y Abner se sentó al lado de Saúl, pero el lugar de David estaba vacío.
26 And Saul did not say anything on that day. For he was thinking that perhaps something happened to him, so that he was not clean, or not purified.
Sin embargo, Saúl no dijo nada ese día, pues pensó: “Algo le ha sucedido. No está limpio. Seguramente no está limpio”.
27 And when the second day after the new moon had begun to dawn, David’s place again appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not arrived to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?”
Al día siguiente de la luna nueva, el segundo día, el lugar de David estaba vacío. Saúl le dijo a su hijo Jonatán: “¿Por qué no vino a comer el hijo de Isaí, ni ayer ni hoy?”.
28 And Jonathan responded to Saul, “He petitioned me earnestly that he might go to Bethlehem,
Jonatán respondió a Saúl: “David me pidió encarecidamente permiso para ir a Belén.
29 and he said: ‘Permit me. For there is a solemn sacrifice in the city. One of my brothers has summoned me. Now therefore, if I have found favor in your eyes, I will go quickly, and I will see my brothers.’ For this reason, he has not come to the table of the king.”
Dijo: ‘Por favor, déjame ir, porque nuestra familia tiene un sacrificio en la ciudad. Mi hermano me ha ordenado que esté allí. Ahora, si he encontrado gracia ante tus ojos, por favor déjame ir a ver a mis hermanos’. Por eso no ha venido a la mesa del rey”.
30 Then Saul, becoming angry against Jonathan, said to him: “You son of a woman wantonly seizing a man! Could I be ignorant that you love the son of Jesse, to your own shame, and to the shame of your disgraceful mother?
Entonces la ira de Saúl ardió contra Jonatán, y le dijo: “Hijo de una perversa rebelde, ¿no sé que has elegido al hijo de Isaí para vergüenza tuya y de tu madre?
31 For all the days that the son of Jesse moves upon earth, neither you, nor your kingdom, will be secure. And so, send and bring him to me, here and now. For he is a son of death.”
Porque mientras el hijo de Isaí viva en la tierra, tú no serás establecido, ni tu reino. Por lo tanto, ¡envía ahora y tráemelo, porque seguramente morirá!”
32 Then Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said: “Why should he die? What has he done?”
Jonatán respondió a su padre Saúl y le dijo: “¿Por qué ha de morir? ¿Qué ha hecho?”
33 And Saul picked up a lance, so that he might strike him. And Jonathan understood that it had been decided by his father that David be put to death.
Saúl le arrojó su lanza para herirlo. Con esto, Jonatán supo que su padre estaba decidido a dar muerte a David.
34 Therefore, Jonathan rose up from the table in a rage of anger. And he did not eat bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was saddened over David, because his father had confounded him.
Así que Jonatán se levantó de la mesa con una furia terrible y no comió nada el segundo día del mes, pues estaba afligido por David, porque su padre lo había tratado de manera vergonzosa.
35 And when the morning had begun to dawn, Jonathan went into the field according to the agreement with David, and a young boy was with him.
Por la mañana, Jonatán salió al campo a la hora señalada con David, y un niño pequeño con él.
36 And he said to his boy, “Go, and bring to me the arrows that I shoot.” And when the boy had run, he shot another arrow away from the boy.
Le dijo a su niño: “Corre, encuentra ahora las flechas que yo tiro”. Mientras el niño corría, disparó una flecha más allá de él.
37 And so, the boy went to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot. And Jonathan cried out, from behind the back of boy, and said: “Behold, the arrow is there, farther away from you.”
Cuando el niño llegó al lugar de la flecha que Jonatán había disparado, Jonatán gritó tras el niño y le dijo: “¿No está la flecha más allá de ti?”
38 And Jonathan cried out again, from behind the back of the boy, saying, “Go quickly! Do not stand still!” Then Jonathan’s boy collected the arrows, and he brought them to his lord.
Jonatán gritó tras el muchacho: “¡Ve rápido! ¡Apresúrate! No te demores”. El muchacho de Jonatán recogió las flechas y se acercó a su amo.
39 And he did not understand at all what was happening. For only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
Pero el muchacho no sabía nada. Sólo Jonatán y David sabían el asunto.
40 Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy, and he said to him, “Go, and carry them into the city.”
Jonatán le dio las armas a su muchacho y le dijo: “Ve, llévalas a la ciudad”.
41 And when the boy had gone away, David rose up from his place, which turned toward the south, and falling prone on the ground, he reverenced three times. And kissing one another, they wept together, but David more so.
En cuanto el muchacho se fue, David se levantó del sur, se postró en tierra y se inclinó tres veces. Se besaron y lloraron mutuamente, y David fue el que más lloró.
42 Then Jonathan said to David: “Go in peace. And let us both keep all that we have ever sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘May the Lord be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, even forever.’” And David rose up and went away. But Jonathan entered into the city.
Jonatán dijo a David: “Vete en paz, porque ambos hemos jurado en nombre de Yahvé, diciendo: “Yahvé está entre tú y yo, y entre mi descendencia y tu descendencia, para siempre””. Él se levantó y partió; y Jonatán entró en la ciudad.
