Isaiah 29
1 [This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
¡Ay de Ariel, de Ariel! ciudad donde tuvo su morada David. Añadid año a año; sigan las fiestas en su turno,
2 But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
mas Yo estrecharé a Ariel; habrá llantos y gemidos, y ella será para mí como un ariel.
3 I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
Acamparé contra ti todo en derredor, te circunvalaré con gente armada y alzaré contra ti trincheras.
4 Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
Serás humillada; desde el suelo hablarás; y desde el polvo se hará oír tu voz ahogada; saldrá tu voz, como la de un fantasma, desde la tierra, y tus palabras sonarán, como murmullo, procedente del polvo.
5 But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
La muchedumbre de tus enemigos será cual polvo menudo, y la multitud de tus opresores como paja que vuela.
6 The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
Y esto sucederá de repente en un instante. De parte de Yahvé de los ejércitos serás visitada con truenos y estrépito y gran estruendo, con torbellino y tempestad, y llamas de fuego devorador.
7 [Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
Como un sueño, como visión nocturna, así será la muchedumbre de las naciones que combaten a Ariel; y así serán todos los que pelean contra ella y su fortaleza y la asedian.
8 People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
Así como el hambriento sueña que come, mas cuando despierta se siente vacío, y como el sediento sueña que bebe, mas cuando despierta se siente agotado y lleno de deseos, así sucederá a la muchedumbre de todas las naciones que atacan el monte Sión.
9 You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
Pasmaos y quedaos asombrados; ofuscaos y cegaos. Están embriagados, pero no de vino; tambalean, pero no a causa de bebidas fuertes.
10 Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
Porque Yahvé ha derramado sobre vosotros un espíritu de letargo; os ha cerrado los ojos, oh profetas; y tapado vuestras cabezas, oh videntes.
11 [Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
Toda visión es para vosotros como las palabras de un libro sellado, que se le da a uno que sabe leer, diciendo: “Lee esto”; pero él responde: “No puedo, porque está sellado.”
12 When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
Luego se da el libro a quien no sabe leer, diciendo: “Lee esto”, y él responde: “No entiendo de escritura.”
13 [So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
Dice el Señor: “Por cuanto este pueblo se me acerca (solo) con su boca, y (solo) con sus labios me honra, mientras su corazón está lejos de Mí, y el temor que me tienen no es más que un mandamiento de hombres, cosa aprendida de memoria,
14 Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
por eso volveré a hacer con este pueblo cosas asombrosas, cosas extraordinarias y maravillosas. Fallará la sabiduría de sus sabios, y se desvanecerá la prudencia de sus prudentes.
15 Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
¡Ay de los que encubren sus pensamientos para ocultarlos a Yahvé, y hacen sus obras en las tinieblas, diciendo: «¿Quién nos ve? y ¿quién nos conoce?»
16 They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
¡Que perversidad la vuestra! ¿Acaso se puede igualar el barro al alfarero, de modo que la obra diga a su hacedor: «No me has hecho tú», y la vasija diga al que la formó: «Nada entiende»?
17 Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
¿No es verdad que dentro de poco tiempo el Líbano se convertirá en un jardín, y el jardín será tenido por bosque?
18 At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
En aquel día los sordos oirán las palabras del libro, y los ojos de los ciegos verán, libres ya de la oscuridad y de las tinieblas.
19 Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
Los humildes se alegrarán más y más en Yahvé, y los pobres de entre los hombres se regocijarán en el Santo de Israel.
20 There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
Porque los opresores habrán dejado de existir; no habrá más burladores, y serán extirpados todos los que se desvelan para hacer mal;
21 Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
los que condenan a un hombre por una palabra, los que arman lazos al que juzga en el tribunal y pervierten sin motivo la causa del justo.
22 That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
Por eso, Yahvé el que rescató a Abrahán, dice así a la casa de Jacob: Ya no se cubrirá de vergüenza Jacob, y no palidecerá más su rostro.
23 When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
Pues cuando él y sus hijos vieren en medio de ellos la obra de mis manos, santificarán mi nombre, santificarán al Santo de Jacob, y temerán al Dios de Israel.
24 When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
Entonces los extraviados de espíritu llegarán a entender la sabiduría y los murmuradores aprenderán doctrina.
