Daniel 9
1 [Now I am going to tell you about what happened] when Darius, who was from the Mede people-group and who was the son of Xerxes, ruled as the King of Babylonia.
El año primero de Darío, hijo de Asuero, de la estirpe de los medos, que fue constituido rey sobre el reino de los caldeos,
2 During the first year that he was the king, I, Daniel, was studying/reading the [holy] books/Scriptures the message that Yahweh had given to the prophet Jeremiah. In that message Jeremiah had written that Jerusalem would [be destroyed and] remain ruined for seventy years.
el año primero de su reinado, yo, Daniel, estaba estudiando en los libros el número de los setenta años de que Yahvé había hablado al profeta Jeremías y durante los cuales debía cumplirse la desolación de Jerusalén.
3 [After I read that], I pleaded to Yahweh my God [to help us], praying and (fasting/abstaining from eating food). [While doing that, I was wearing] rough cloth and [sitting in] ashes [to show that I was very sad about what was going to happen to us].
Y volví mi rostro hacia el Señor Dios, para rogarle con oraciones y súplicas, con ayuno y saco y ceniza.
4 I confessed [the sins that we had committed], and [this is what I] prayed: Lord, you are great and awesome! You have faithfully done what you said that you would do for us. You faithfully love those who love you and who do what you have commanded [that they should do].
Rogando a Yahvé, mi Dios, hice confesión y dije: “¡Ay! Señor, Dios grande y temible, que guardas la alianza y la misericordia con los que te aman y observan tus mandamientos.
5 But we [Israelis] have sinned. We have done things that are wrong. We have done wicked things, and we have rebelled [against you]. We have turned away from [obeying] your commands [DOU].
Hemos pecado, hemos cometido iniquidad, hemos sido malos y rebeldes y nos hemos apartado de tus mandamientos y de tus leyes.
6 Your prophets spoke for you [MTY], [giving your messages to] kings, to our other rulers, to our [other] ancestors, and to all the Israeli people, but we have refused to (pay attention to/heed) those prophets.
No hemos escuchado a tus siervos los profetas, que en tu nombre hablaron a nuestros reyes, a nuestros príncipes, a nuestros padres, y al pueblo de todo el país.
7 Lord, you always do what is righteous/just/fair, but we have caused ourselves to be ashamed [IDM]. This is [still] true about all of the Israelis who live in Jerusalem and who live in other places in Judea. It is [also] true about all us Israelis whom you scattered, who [were taken to] other countries, some near [Israel] and some far away, because we were very unfaithful/disloyal to you.
Tuya es, Señor, la justicia, y nuestra la confusión del rostro, como sucede hoy a los hombres de Judá, a los habitantes de Jerusalén y a todos los israelitas a los que están cerca y a los que están lejos, en todas las tierras adonde los arrojaste a causa de las infidelidades que contra Ti cometieron.
8 Lord, we and our kings and our other rulers and our [other] ancestors have done very shameful things and have sinned against you.
¡Oh Señor, nuestra es la confusión del rostro, y de nuestros reyes, de nuestros príncipes y de nuestros padres; pues hemos pecado contra Ti!
9 Although we have rebelled against you, you act mercifully [toward us] and you [are willing/ready] to forgive us.
Pero del Señor, nuestro Dios, son la misericordia y el perdón, porque nos hemos revelado contra Él;
10 Yahweh our God, when you gave your laws to your prophets who served you, and they told us to conduct our lives according to those laws, we did not (listen to/heed) you.
y no hemos escuchado la voz de Yahvé, nuestro Dios, para cumplir sus leyes, que Él puso delante de nosotros por medio de sus siervos los profetas.
11 All [of us] Israeli people have disobeyed your laws, and we have turned away from [obeying] what you said. We have sinned against you. As a result, [you] have caused us to experience the terrible things that your servant Moses said/wrote [would happen to us] if we sinned against you.
Todo Israel ha traspasado tu Ley y se ha apartado para no oír tu voz; por lo cual se ha derramado sobre nosotros la maldición y la execración que está escrita en la Ley de Moisés, siervo de Dios, puesto que hemos prevaricado contra Él.
12 You warned us and our rulers that you would punish Jerusalem severely by causing a great disaster there, a disaster that would be worse than any disaster that any other city had ever experienced, and you have done what you said that you would do.
Por esto Él ejecutó la sentencia que había pronunciado contra nosotros, y contra nuestros jefes que nos gobernaron, trayendo sobre nosotros una calamidad tan grande, que nunca hubo debajo de todo el cielo cosa semejante a la que se ha ejecutado en Jerusalén.
13 [You] punished us just like Moses wrote [that you would do]. But, Yahweh our God, we still have not tried, by turning away from our sinning and by heeding your truth, to persuade you to act mercifully toward us.
Todo este mal vino sobre nosotros conforme está escrito en la Ley de Moisés; mas no hemos implorado a Yahvé nuestro Dios para convertirnos de nuestras iniquidades y meditar en tu verdad.
14 So, because we did not obey you, you prepared to punish us, and [then] you did punish us, because you always do what is righteous/just/fair.
Yahvé veló sobre el mal y lo hizo venir sobre nosotros; porque justo es Yahvé, nuestro Dios, en todas sus obras que ha hecho, pero nosotros no quisimos oír su voz.
15 O Lord our God, you brought your people out of Egypt by your great power [MTY], and by doing that you have caused people from that time until the present time to know that you are great [IDM] [even though] we have sinned and done wicked things.
Ahora oh Señor, Dios nuestro, que con mano poderosa sacaste a tu pueblo del país de Egipto y te adquiriste el renombre que tienes hoy, hemos pecado, hemos cometido iniquidad.
16 Lord, Jerusalem is your city, and [your temple was built there] on your sacred hill. Now all the people who live in nearby [countries/nations] despise Jerusalem and [us] your people because of our sins and because of the evil things that our ancestors did. But [now], because you do what is righteous/just, [we ask you to] not be angry with Jerusalem any longer.
Oh Señor, según todas tus justicias, apártese, te ruego, tu ira e indignación de Jerusalén, la ciudad tuya, y de tu santo monte; pues a raíz de nuestros pecados y de las iniquidades de nuestros padres, Jerusalén y tu pueblo han venido a ser el oprobio de cuantos viven alrededor nuestro.
17 O Lord our God, listen to what I am praying and pleading [for you to do]. (For your own sake/In order that people will know that you are very great), act kindly [IDM] concerning your temple, which was destroyed [by the armies of Babylonia].
Oye ahora, oh Dios nuestro, la oración de tu siervo, y sus súplicas, y por amor del Señor, haz resplandecer tu rostro sobre tu Santuario devastado.
18 My God, listen [to my prayer]. Look [at us] and see our troubles, and see that this city that belongs to you [MTY] has been ruined/destroyed. We are praying to you because you are merciful, not because we have done what is right/good.
Inclina Dios mío, tu oído y escucha; abre tus ojos y mira nuestras ruinas, y a la ciudad, sobre la cual ha sido invocado tu Nombre pues derramamos nuestros ruegos ante tu rostro, confiando, no en nuestras justicias, sino en tus grandes misericordias.
19 Lord, listen [to us]! Lord, forgive us! Lord, this city and these people belong to you, so [we plead with you to] heed what we are saying and act [to help us] right now, (for your own sake/in order that people will know that you are very great)!
¡Escucha, Señor! ¡Perdona, Señor! ¡Presta atención, Señor, y obra! ¡No tardes, por amor de Ti, oh Dios mío!, porque sobre tu ciudad y tu pueblo ha sido invocado tu Nombre.”
20 I continued praying and confessing the sins that my people and I had committed, and pleading with Yahweh my God that he would restore [the temple on] the sacred hill [in Jerusalem].
Mientras aún estaba hablando y orando, y confesando mi pecado y el pecado de Israel mi pueblo, y presentando mis súplicas a Yahvé, mi Dios, por el santo monte de mi Dios;
21 While I was praying, Gabriel, the angel/one whom I had seen in the vision previously, came flying rapidly to me, at the time in the evening when [the priests] offered sacrifices.
y mientras aún estaba profiriendo mis plegarias, aquel varón Gabriel, a quien yo había visto antes en la visión, se me acercó en rápido vuelo, a la hora de la oblación de la tarde,
22 He said to me, “Daniel, I have come to you to enable you to understand [DOU] clearly [the message that God gave to Jeremiah].
y me instruyó, y habló conmigo diciendo: “Daniel, he venido ahora para darte inteligencia.
23 When you began to plead [with God], he gave me a message [to pass on to you]. He loves you very much, so [he has sent me] to tell you what he said to me. So [now] (pay attention/listen carefully) in order that you may understand the meaning of what he revealed [to Jeremiah].
Cuando te pusiste a orar salió una orden, y he venido a anunciarla; porque eres muy amado. Fija, pues, tu atención sobre la palabra y entiende la visión.
24 [God] has determined/declared that there will be 490 years until he frees/saves your people from [the guilt of] their sins and to atone for the evil things that they have done. Then [God] will rule everyone justly, and he will do that forever. And [what you saw in] the vision and what [Jeremiah] prophesied will (come true/be fulfilled), and the sacred temple will be dedicated [to God again].
Setenta semanas están decretadas para tu pueblo y para tu ciudad santa, a fin de acabar con la prevaricación, sellar los pecados y expiar la iniquidad, y para traer la justicia eterna, poner sello sobre la visión y la profecía y ungir al Santo de los santos.
25 You need to know and understand this: There will be 49 years from the time that [the king] commands that Jerusalem should be rebuilt until the leader/king that God has chosen will come. Then 434 years later, Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and it will have streets and will have a (moat/deep ditch filled with water) around it [to protect the city]. But that will be a time when [God’s people] will have [a lot of] troubles/difficulties/suffering.
Conoce y entiende: Desde la salida de la orden de restaurar y edificar a Jerusalén, hasta un Ungido, un Príncipe, habrá siete semanas y sesenta y dos semanas; y en tiempos de angustias será ella reedificada con plaza y circunvalación.
26 After those 434 years, the leader/king whom God has appointed will be killed [when it seems that] he will have accomplished nothing (unjustly/without having done anything wrong). After that, the temple will be destroyed by [the army of] a powerful ruler. The city and the temple will be destroyed like a flood [MET] [destroys everything]. That will be the beginning of the war and destruction that [God] has decreed [will happen].
Al cabo de las sesenta y dos semanas será muerto el Ungido y no será más. Y el pueblo de un príncipe que ha de venir, destruirá la ciudad y el Santuario; mas su fin será en una inundación; y hasta el fin habrá guerra (y) las devastaciones decretadas.
27 That ruler will make a strong agreement with many people. He will promise to do for seven years what he has said in that agreement. But when that time is half finished, he will prevent [priests from] giving any more offerings and sacrifices [to God]. A disgusting idol will be put on the highest part of the temple, and it will stay there until [God] gets rid of the one who put it there, which is what he said that he would do.”
Él confirmará el pacto con muchos durante una semana, y a la mitad de la semana hará cesar el sacrificio y la oblación; y sobre el Santuario vendrá una abominación desoladora, hasta que la consumación decretada se derrame sobre el devastador.”
