Isaiah 23
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Tyre [city]: You [sailors on] [APO] ships from Tarshish, weep, because [the harbor of] Tyre and all the houses [in the city] have been destroyed. The reports that you heard in Cyprus [island] about Tyre [are true].
Oráculo contra Tiro; ¡Aullad, naves de Tarsis! porque ella está desolada; no hay casa ni entrada. De la tierra de Kitim se les dio este anuncio.
2 You people who live along the coast [near Tyre], and merchants of Sidon [city], mourn silently. Your sailors went across the seas [to many places like Tyre].
¡Callad, oh habitantes de la isla, que estaba llena de comerciantes de Sidón, navegantes del mar!
3 They sailed across deep seas to buy grain in Egypt and [other] crops that are grown along the Nile [River]. Tyre became the city where people from [all] nations bought and sold goods.
Recibió, a través de las grandes aguas, el trigo del Nilo, la cosecha de Egipto; y vino a ser emporio de los pueblos.
4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed, because [you trusted in Tyre], which has been a strong fortress [on an island] in the sea. [Tyre is like a woman who is saying], “[Now it is as though] I have not given birth to [any] children, or raised [any] sons or daughters.”
Avergüénzate, Sidón, pues habla el mar, la ciudadela del mar, diciendo: “No he dado a luz ni tenido hijos, no he criado mancebos, ni nutrido doncellas”.
5 When [the people of] Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, they will grieve very much.
Cuando Egipto llegue a oírlo, temblará por la noticia de (la caída de) Tiro.
6 Sail to Tarshish [and tell them what happened]; weep, you people who live along the coast.
Pasad a Tarsis; aullad, habitantes de las islas.
7 [The people in] the very old city [of Tyre] were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.
¿Es esta vuestra (ciudad) jubilosa, cuyo origen es de tiempos antiguos, que iba por sus pies a lejanas tierras, para fijar moradas?
8 People from Tyre appointed kings [over other places]; their traders were wealthy; they were [as powerful and wealthy as] [MET] kings. [So], who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?
¿Quién decretó esto contra Tiro, que repartía coronas; cuyos comerciantes eran príncipes, y sus mercaderes los grandes de la tierra?
9 It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause [you people in] Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.
Yahvé de los ejércitos lo ha decretado, para acabar con toda gloria orgullosa, y para humillar a todos los potentados de la tierra.
10 You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land [instead of trading]; spread out over your land like [SIM] the Nile [River] spreads over the land [of Egypt] when it floods, because there is no harbor [in Tyre for your ships] now.
Inunda tu tierra, como el Nilo, oh tú, hija de Tarsis, ya no tienes ceñidor.
11 [It is as though] Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.
Yahvé ha extendido su mano sobre el mar, ha sacudido los reinos; Yahvé dio orden de destruir las plazas fuertes de Canaán.
12 He said to the people of Sidon, “You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; even if you flee to Cyprus [island], you will not escape destruction.”
Él ha dicho: No saltes más de gozo, virgen deshonrada, hija de Sidón. Levántate, pasa a Kitim, mas ni aun allí encontrarás reposo.
13 Think about what happened in Babylonia: the people who were in that land have disappeared. [The armies of] Assyria have caused that land to become a place where wild animals from the desert live. The Assyrians built dirt ramps to the top of the walls [of the city of Babylon]; [then they entered the city and] tore down the palaces and caused the city to become [a heap of] rubble.
He aquí la tierra de los caldeos, nación que antes no existía; Asiria la fundó para los animales del desierto. Aunque levantaron sus torres y erigieron sus palacios, Él la convirtió en ruinas.
14 [So] wail, you [sailors on the] ships of Tarshish, because the harbor [in Tyre where your ships stop] is destroyed!
¡AuIlad, oh naves de Tarsis, pues está destruida vuestra fortaleza!
15 For seventy years, which is as long as kings usually live, people will forget about Tyre. [But then it will be rebuilt]. What will happen there will be like what happened to a prostitute in this song:
Y será en aquel día que Tiro quedará olvidada setenta años, correspondientes a los días de un rey; y al fin de los setenta años, sucederá con Tiro lo que dice la canción de la cortesana:
16 “You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”
“Toma la cítara, da la vuelta por la ciudad, cortesana olvidada, toca bien, multiplica tus canciones, para que seas recordada.”
17 [It is true that] after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many [other] nations [HYP].
Sí, al cabo de los setenta años, Yahvé visitará a Tiro; y ella recibirá de nuevo su salario, y fornicará con todos los reinos de la tierra, que hay sobre la faz del orbe.
18 [But] their profits will be given to Yahweh. [The merchants] will not hoard their money; instead, they will give it to Yahweh’s priests in order that they [can] buy food and nice clothes.
Pero sus ganancias y su salario serán consagrados a Yahvé; no serán atesorados ni guardados, pues su ganancia pasará a los que habitan delante de Yahvé, para que coman hasta hartarse y se vistan magníficamente.
