Isaías 26
1 En aquel día se cantará este cántico en la tierra de Judá: “Tenemos una ciudad fuerte, el mismo Salvador es su muro y baluarte.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Abrid las puertas, para que entre la nación justa, que guarda la verdad.
Open all of you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 Al alma fiel le conservarás la paz, la paz, porque en Ti confía.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Confiad en Yahvé para siempre, porque Yahvé es la roca eterna.
Trust all of you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 Pues Él ha abatido a los que habitaban en las alturas, ha abatido la ciudad soberbia, la ha humillado hasta el suelo, la ha agobiado hasta el polvo.
For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
6 La huellan los pies, los pies del pobre, los pasos del endeble.
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 La vereda para el justo está allanada, derecho es el camino que Tú abres al justo.
The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 También a través de tus juicios te hemos aguardado, oh Yahvé; hacia tu nombre y hacia tu memoria se dirigían los anhelos de nuestra alma.
Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.
9 Mi alma te ansiaba en la noche, y mi espíritu, dentro de mí, te buscaba madrugando; pues cuando tus juicios se aplican a la tierra, los moradores del orbe aprenden la justicia.
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 El impío, aun cuando se le hace gracia, no aprende la justicia; en la tierra de justicia sigue haciendo maldades, y no ve la gloria de Yahvé.
Let favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 Yahvé, alzada está tu mano, y no la ven ellos; pero al ver tu celo por tu pueblo quedarán confundidos, y los devorará el fuego de tus enemigos.
LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 Concédenos la paz, oh Yahvé, pues también todas nuestras obras las haces Tú por nosotros.
LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 Yahvé, Dios nuestro, hemos tenido otros señores fuera de Ti; pero gracias a Ti nos acordamos solo de tu Nombre.
O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.
14 Muertos están, no vivirán; son sombras que no resucitan; Tú los visitaste y exterminaste, borrando toda memoria de ellos.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Multiplicaste el pueblo, oh Yahvé, multiplicaste el pueblo y has sido glorificado; has dilatado todos los confines del país.
You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 Te buscaron en la angustia, oh Yahvé, derramaron sus plegarias cuando los castigaste.
LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.
17 Como la mujer encinta, cuando está próxima a dar a luz, se retuerce y da gritos en sus dolores; así éramos nosotros, oh Yahvé, delante de Ti.
Like a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 Concebimos y sufrimos dolores de parto; pero hemos dado a luz viento; no dimos salud a la tierra, ni nacieron habitantes del orbe.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Vivirán tus muertos; resucitarán los muertos míos. Despertad y exultad, vosotros que moráis en el polvo; porque rocío de luz es tu rocío, y la tierra devolverá los muertos.
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, all of you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Anda, pueblo mío, entra en tus aposentos, cierra tus puertas tras de ti; escóndete por un breve instante hasta que pase la ira.
Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation pass over.
21 Pues he aquí que Yahvé sale de su morada para castigar la iniquidad de los habitantes de la tierra, y la tierra dejará ver la sangre derramada sobre ella, y no ocultará más sus muertos.”
For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
