Revelation 13
1 The dragon stood on the ocean shore. I saw a beast that was coming up out of the ocean. It had ten horns and seven heads. On each [of] its horns there was a royal crown. On [each] of its heads there was a name that insulted [God].
Y apostose sobre la arena del mar. Y del mar vi subir una bestia con diez cuernos y siete cabezas, y en sus cuernos diez diademas, y en sus cabezas nombres de blasfemia.
2 The beast that I saw was like a leopard. But its feet were like the feet of a bear, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast [power]. From his own throne he also gave it authority [to rule people] [DOU].
La bestia que vi era semejante a una pantera; sus patas eran como de oso, y su boca como boca de león; y el dragón le pasó su poder y su trono y una gran autoridad.
3 One of the heads of the beast had been wounded {[The Lord] had wounded one of the heads of the beast}, causing the beast to almost die. But its wound was healed. [As a result, nearly] all [the people of] the earth [HYP, MTY] marveled at the beast and became his disciples.
Y ( yo vi ) una de sus cabezas como si se le hubiese dado muerte; mas fue sanada de su golpe mortal, y maravillose toda la tierra, (y se fue ) en pos de la bestia.
4 They worshipped the dragon, because he had given to the beast authority [to rule people]. They also worshipped the beast, saying, “No one is [as powerful] as the beast!/ [RHQ] (No one would dare to fight against it!/Who would dare to fight against it?)” [RHQ]
Y adoraron al dragón, porque él había dado la autoridad a la bestia; y adoraron a la bestia, diciendo: “¿Quién cómo la bestia? y ¿quién puede hacerle guerra?”
5 The beast was allowed {[God] allowed the beast} to speak [MTY] in a boastful way and to insult [God]. [It was also] allowed {[God] also allowed it} to rule [over people] for 42 months.
Y se le dio una boca que profería altanerías y blasfemias; y le fue dada autoridad para hacer su obra durante cuarenta y dos meses.
6 It [MTY] insulted God, insulted the place where he lives, and insulted everyone who lives with him in heaven.
Abrió, pues, su boca para blasfemar contra Dios, blasfemar de su Nombre, de su morada y de los que habitan en el cielo.
7 [It was] allowed {[God] allowed it} to fight against God’s people and to conquer them. [It was] allowed {[God] allowed it} to have authority [to rule] over every tribe, over every people-[group], over [speakers of] every language [MTY], and over every nation.
Le fue permitido también hacer guerra a los santos y vencerlos; y le fue dada autoridad sobre toda tribu y pueblo y lengua y nación.
8 Most of [HYP] the [people] living on earth worshipped it. They were people whose names were not written in a book by the [one who is like a] lamb, the one who had been killed. Since the beginning of the world [he wrote in it the names of the people who] will have [eternal] life.
Y lo adorarán ( al dragón ) todos los moradores de la tierra, aquellos cuyos nombres no están escritos, desde la fundación del mundo, en el libro de la vida del Cordero inmolado.
9 Everyone who wants to understand [MTY] must listen carefully to [this message from God]:
Si alguno tiene oído, oiga:
10 If [God has determined] that some people will be captured by their [enemies], they will be captured. If [God has determined that] some people will be killed with a sword, they will be killed with a sword. So God’s people [must be] steadfast, and remain faithful [to him].
si alguno ha de ir al cautiverio, irá al cautiverio; si alguno ha de morir a espada, a espada morirá. En esto está la paciencia y la fe de los santos.
11 I saw another beast, which was coming up from the earth. It had two small horns [on its head] like a sheep has. But it spoke [things to deceive people], like the dragon does.
Y vi otra bestia que subía de ( bajo ) la tierra. Tenía dos cuernos como un cordero, pero hablaba como dragón.
12 While the first beast watched, it used all the [same] authority [to rule people that the first beast had]. It forced the people who live on the earth [MTY, DOU] to worship the first beast, that is, the one who was healed of the wound that had caused it to almost die.
Y la autoridad de la primera bestia la ejercía toda en presencia de ella. E hizo que la tierra y sus moradores adorasen a la bestia primera, que había sido sanada de su golpe mortal.
13 The second beast performed awesome miracles, even causing fire from the sky to fall to earth while people watched.
Obró también grandes prodigios, hasta hacer descender fuego del cielo a la tierra a la vista de los hombres.
14 He performed miracles (on behalf of/with the authority of) the [first] beast. By doing that he deceived the [unbelieving] people on the earth so that they [believed that they should worship the first beast. But this happened only because God] allowed [it to happen]. The second beast told the people living on earth to make an image of the [first] beast, the one that [people] had almost killed with a sword and that then came back to life again.
Y embaucó a los habitantes de la tierra con los prodigios que le fue dado hacer en presencia de la bestia, diciendo a los moradores de la tierra que debían erigir una estatua a la bestia que recibió el golpe de espada y revivió.
15 The image of the [first] beast was allowed to breathe, in order that it might speak and in order that [it might command that] whoever refused to worship its image should be killed {that [people] should kill whoever refused to worship its image}.
Y le fue concedido animar la estatua de la bestia de modo que la estatua de la bestia también hablase e hiciese quitar la vida a cuantos no adorasen la estatua de la bestia.
16 [The second beast] required also that [the first beast’s name] be marked {[its agents] mark [the first beast’s name]} on the right hand or on the forehead of everyone, those of little [social importance] and of great [social importance], the rich and the poor, free [people] and slaves. [Everyone]!
E hizo poner a todos, pequeños y grandes, ricos y pobres, libres y siervos una marca impresa en la mano derecha o en la frente,
17 They did this in order that people could not buy [anything] or sell [anything] if they did not have the mark, which represents the name of the beast or the number of its name, [on their foreheads].
a fin de que nadie pudiese comprar ni vender si no estaba marcado con el nombre de la bestia o el número de su nombre.
18 You must [think] wisely to understand [the meaning of the mark]. Anyone who thinks wisely should calculate from the number of the beast what the man’s name is. That number is 666.
Aquí la sabiduría: quien tiene entendimiento calcule la cifra de la bestia. Porque es cifra de hombre: su cifra es seiscientos sesenta y seis.
