Isaiah 17
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
Oráculo contra Damasco: “Damasco ha dejado de ser ciudad, no es más que un montón de escombros.
2 The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
Las ciudades abandonadas de Aroer serán para los rebaños, que tendrán allí sus apriscos sin que nadie los espante.
3 The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Será quitada de Efraím la fortaleza, y de Damasco el reino, y será de los restos de Siria lo que de la gloria de los hijos de Israel —oráculo de Yahvé de los ejércitos.
4 “At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
En aquel día enflaquecerá la gloria de Jacob, y decrecerá la gordura de su carne.
5 The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
Será como cuando el segador recoge la mies y su brazo corta las espigas; y como cuando se rebuscan espigas en el valle de Refaím:
6 Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Quedará en él un rebusco, como cuando se varea el olivo; dos o tres aceitunas en la cima de la copa, cuatro o cinco en las ramas del árbol” —oráculo de Yahvé, el Dios de Israel.
7 [Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
En aquel día el hombre dirigirá la mirada hacia su Hacedor, y sus ojos mirarán al Santo de Israel,
8 You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
ya no mirará a los altares, obra de sus manos; no volverá la vista a lo que han hecho sus dedos, ni a las ascheras, ni a las imágenes del sol.
9 The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
En aquel día sus ciudades fortificadas serán como las ciudades abandonadas de los amorreos y heveos, que estos abandonaron a la llegada de los hijos de Israel; serán un desierto.
10 [That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
Olvidaste al Dios de tu salvación, y no te acordaste de la Roca de tu fortaleza; por eso te plantas jardines de deleite y siembras en ellos simiente extraña.
11 [But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
En el mismo día de plantarlas las ves crecer, y al día siguiente echar flores, pero la mies te escapará en el día aciago de la calamidad irremediable.
12 Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
¡Qué estruendo de muchos pueblos, que braman como el bramido del mar! ¡Qué estrépito de naciones! Rugen como poderosas aguas.
13 But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
Como aguas inmensas rugen las naciones; pero Él las reprende, y huyen lejos. Se dispersan como el tamo sobre los montes al soplo del viento, y como un torbellino (de polvo) en la tempestad.
14 And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
A la tarde habrá espanto, y antes de la mañana ya no existen. Este es el destino de los que nos saquean, esta la suerte de los que nos despojan.
