2 Chronicles 6
1 Then Solomon said: “The Lord has promised that he would dwell in a cloud.
Entonces Salomón dijo: Yavé dijo que Él moraría en densa oscuridad.
2 But I have built a house to his name, so that he may dwell there forever.”
Yo te edifiqué una Casa sublime, un lugar donde mores para siempre.
3 And the king turned his face, and he blessed the entire multitude of Israel, (for the whole crowd was standing and attentive) and he said:
Toda la congregación de Israel se mantenía en pie. El rey volvió su rostro y bendijo a toda la congregación de Israel:
4 “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who has completed the work that he spoke to David my father, saying:
Bendito sea Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, Quien cumplió con su mano lo que habló con su boca a mi padre David, al decir:
5 ‘From the day when I led my people away from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city from all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built in it to my name. And I did not choose any other man, so that he would be the ruler of my people Israel.
Desde el día cuando saqué a mi pueblo de la tierra de Egipto, no escogí ninguna ciudad de entre las tribus de Israel para edificar una Casa donde esté mi Nombre, ni escogí a algún hombre para que sea caudillo de mi pueblo Israel.
6 But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.’
Pero escogí a Jerusalén para que mi Nombre more allí, y escogí a David para que fuera rey de mi pueblo Israel.
7 And though David, my father, had decided that he would build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,
El anhelo de edificar una Casa al Nombre de Yavé ʼElohim de Israel estuvo en el corazón de mi padre David.
8 the Lord said to him: ‘In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
Pero Yavé dijo a mi padre David: Bien hiciste al tener en tu corazón edificar Casa a mi Nombre, porque tuviste esto en tu corazón,
9 But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.’
pero tú no edificarás la Casa, sino tu hijo edificará la Casa a mi Nombre.
10 Therefore, the Lord has accomplished his word, which he had spoken. And I have risen up in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord spoke. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Yavé cumplió su Palabra, pues yo me levanté en lugar de mi padre David y me senté en el trono de Israel, tal como Yavé habló, y edifiqué la Casa al Nombre de Yavé ʼElohim de Israel.
11 And I have placed in it the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he formed with the sons of Israel.”
Puse allí el Arca en la cual está el Pacto que Yavé hizo con los hijos de Israel.
12 Then he stood before the altar of the Lord, facing the entire multitude of Israel, and he extended his hands.
Entonces Salomón se levantó en pie delante del altar de Yavé frente a la congregación de Israel y extendió sus manos.
13 For indeed, Solomon had made a bronze base, and he had positioned it in the midst of the hall; it held five cubits in length, and five cubits in width, and three cubits in height. And he stood upon it. And next, kneeling down while facing the entire multitude of Israel, and lifting up his palms towards heaven,
Salomón había hecho una plataforma de bronce y la puso en medio del patio. Tanto su longitud como su anchura eran de 2,25 metros y su altura 1,35 metros. Se levantó sobre ella, se arrodilló delante de toda la congregación de Israel, extendió sus manos al cielo y dijo:
14 he said: “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their hearts.
Oh Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, no hay ʼElohim como Tú en el cielo ni en la tierra. Tú guardas el Pacto y la misericordia a tus esclavos que andan delante de Ti con todo su corazón.
15 You fulfilled for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you had said to him. And you carried out the deed that you promised with your mouth, just as the present time proves.
Tú cumpliste lo que prometiste a tu esclavo David, mi padre. Cumpliste con tu mano lo que prometiste con tu boca como se ve hoy.
16 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: ‘There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.’
Ahora pues, oh Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, cumple lo que le prometiste a tu esclavo David, mi padre: No te faltará varón que se siente en el trono de Israel delante de Mí, con tal que tus hijos guarden su camino para andar en mi Ley, como tú anduviste delante de Mí.
17 And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.
Ahora pues, oh Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, te ruego que sea confirmada tu Palabra que hablaste a tu esclavo David.
18 How then is it to be believed that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?
Pero, ¿en verdad ʼElohim morará con el hombre en la tierra? Ciertamente el cielo y el más alto cielo no te pueden contener, ¡cuánto menos esta Casa que edifiqué!
19 But it has been done for this only, so that you may look with favor upon the prayer of your servant, and on his supplication, O Lord my God, and so that you may hear the prayers which your servant pours out before you,
Sin embargo, oh Yavé ʼElohim mío, Tú prestarás atención a la oración de tu esclavo y su súplica, para oír el clamor y la oración que tu esclavo presenta ante Ti,
20 and so that you may open your eyes over this house, day and night, over the place where you promised that your name would be invoked,
a fin de que tus ojos estén abiertos hacia esta Casa día y noche, hacia el lugar del cual dijiste que pondrías allí tu Nombre para escuchar la oración que tu esclavo haga hacia este lugar.
21 and so that you may heed the prayer which your servant is praying within it, and so that you may heed the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel. Whoever will pray in this place, listen from your habitation, that is, from heaven, and forgive.
Tú escucharás las súplicas de tu esclavo y de tu pueblo Israel cuando oren hacia este lugar. Escucha Tú desde el lugar de tu morada en el cielo, y cuando escuches, perdona.
22 If anyone will have sinned against his neighbor, and he arrives to swear against him, and to bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house,
Cuando un hombre peque contra otro, y se le exija juramento, y entre en esta Casa para jurar ante tu altar,
23 you will hear him from heaven, and you will execute justice for your servants, so that you return, to the iniquitous man, his own way upon his own head, and so that you vindicate the just man, repaying him according to his own justice.
escucha Tú desde el cielo, actúa y juzga a tus esclavos, condena al perverso, para que caiga su conducta sobre su propia cabeza y justifica al justo, a fin de retribuirle según su justicia.
24 If your people Israel will have been overwhelmed by their enemies, (for they will sin against you) and having been converted will do penance, and if they will have beseeched your name, and will have prayed in this place,
Cuando tu pueblo Israel sea derrotado por el enemigo porque pecó contra Ti, si ellos se vuelven a Ti, confiesan tu Nombre, oran y te suplican en esta Casa,
25 you will heed them from heaven, and you will forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you will lead them back into the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
escucha Tú desde el cielo, perdona el pecado de tu pueblo Israel, y devuélvelos a la tierra que les diste a ellos y a sus antepasados.
26 If the heavens have been closed, so that rain does not fall, because of the sin of the people, and if they will petition you in this place, and confess to your name, and be converted from their sins when you will afflict them,
Cuando los cielos estén cerrados y no caiga lluvia porque ellos pecaron contra Ti, si oran hacia este lugar, confiesan tu Nombre y se devuelven de su pecado por el cual los afligiste,
27 heed them from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of your servants and of your people Israel, and teach them the good way, by which they may advance, and give rain to the land that you gave to your people as a possession.
escucha Tú desde el cielo y perdona el pecado de tus esclavos y de tu pueblo Israel. Ciertamente, enséñales el buen camino por el cual deben andar y dales lluvia sobre tu tierra que diste a tu pueblo como herencia.
28 If a famine will have risen up in the land, or pestilence, or fungus, or mildew, or locusts, or beetles, or if enemies will have laid waste to the countryside and will have besieged the gates of the cities, or whatever scourge or infirmity will have pressed upon them,
Cuando venga hambruna en la tierra, cuando haya pestilencia, honguillo o parásito, saltamontes o pulgón, o cuando sus enemigos lo acosen en sus propias puertas, cualquiera que sea la plaga o la enfermedad,
29 if anyone from your people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity, will have made supplication and will have extended his hands in this house,
toda oración o toda súplica que haga cualquier persona de todo tu pueblo Israel, y reconozca cada uno su aflicción y su dolor y extiendan sus manos hacia esta Casa,
30 you will heed him from heaven, indeed from your sublime habitation, and you will forgive, and you will repay each one according to his ways, which you know him to hold in his heart. For you alone know the hearts of the sons of men.
escucha Tú desde el cielo, el lugar de tu morada, y perdona. Retribuye conforme a todos sus procedimientos a cada uno cuyo corazón Tú conoces, porque solo Tú conoces el corazón de los hijos de hombres,
31 So may they fear you, and so may they walk in your ways, during all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which you gave to our fathers.
para que te teman y anden en tus caminos todos los días que vivan en la tierra que Tú diste a nuestros antepasados.
32 Also, if the outsider, who is not from your people Israel, will have arrived from a far away land, because of your great name, and because of your robust hand and your outstretched arm, and if he will adore in this place,
También con respecto al extranjero que no es de tu pueblo Israel, cuando venga de una tierra lejana por causa de tu gran Nombre, tu poderosa mano y tu brazo extendido, y venga y ore hacia esta Casa,
33 you will heed him from heaven, your most firm habitation, and you will accomplish all the things about which this sojourner will have called out to you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name, and may fear you, just as your people Israel do, and so that they may know that your name is invoked over this house, which I have built.
escucha Tú desde el cielo, desde tu morada. Haz según todo lo que el extranjero te pida, para que todos los pueblos de la tierra conozcan tu Nombre, te teman como tu pueblo Israel y sepan que a tu Nombre está consagrada esta Casa.
34 If, having gone out to war against their adversaries along the way that you will send them, your people adore you facing in the direction of this city, which you have chosen, and of this house, which I have built to your name,
Cuando tu pueblo salga a la batalla contra sus enemigos, cualquiera que sea el camino en el cual lo envíes, y ore a Ti hacia esta ciudad que escogiste, hacia la Casa que construí a tu Nombre,
35 you will heed their prayers from heaven, and their supplications, and you will vindicate them.
escucha Tú desde el cielo su oración y su súplica, y ampara su causa.
36 But if they will have sinned against you (for there is no man who does not sin) and you will have become angry against them, and if you will have delivered them to their enemies, and so they lead them away as captives to a far away land, or even to one that is near,
Cuando pequen contra Ti, porque no hay hombre que no peque, y Tú, airado contra ellos, los entregues al enemigo, y sus captores los lleven cautivos a una tierra lejana o cercana,
37 and if, having been converted in their heart in the land to which they had been led as captives, they will do penance, and beseech you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have acted unjustly,’
si en la tierra adonde sean llevados cautivos ellos recapacitan, y en su cautiverio se arrepienten y te suplican, y dicen: Pecamos, hicimos iniquidad, actuamos perversamente;
38 and if they will have returned to you, with their whole heart and with their whole soul, in the land of their captivity to which they were led away, and if they will adore you in the direction of their own land, which you gave to their fathers, and of the city, which you have chosen, and of the house, which I have built to your name,
si en la tierra de su cautiverio adonde fueron llevados cautivos, ellos se devuelven a Ti con todo su corazón y toda su alma, y oran a Ti en dirección a la tierra que diste a sus antepasados, hacia la ciudad que Tú escogiste, hacia la Casa que construí a tu Nombre,
39 from heaven, that is, from your firm habitation, you will heed their prayers, and you will accomplish judgment, and you will forgive your people, even though they are sinners.
escucha Tú desde el cielo su oración y sus súplicas, el lugar de tu morada, ampara su causa y perdona a tu pueblo que pecó contra Ti.
40 For you are my God. Let your eyes be open, I beg you, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Ahora pues, oh ʼElohim mío, te ruego que tus ojos estén abiertos y tus oídos atentos a la oración que se eleva en este lugar.
41 Now therefore, rise up, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in what is good.
Entonces, ¡levántate, oh Yavé ʼElohim, a morar en tu reposo, Tú y el Arca de tu poder! ¡Vístanse de salvación tus sacerdotes, oh Yavé ʼElohim, y regocíjense tus santos en tu bondad!
42 O Lord God, may you not turn away from the face of your Christ. Remember the mercies of your servant, David.”
¡Oh Yavé ʼElohim, no rechaces a tu ungido! Acuérdate de tus misericordias hacia tu esclavo David.
