Isaías 29
1 La tragedia llega a ti Ariel, Ariel la ciudad donde vivió David. Año tras año tienes tus fiestas.
[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.
2 Pero yo voy a causarle problemas a Ariel; la ciudad llorará y se lamentará, será como el crisol del altar para mí.
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].
3 Te rodearé, te asediaré con torres y construiré rampas para atacarte.
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.
4 Serás derribado, hablarás desde el suelo, murmurando en el polvo. Tus palabras saldrán como un fantasma de la tumba; tu voz será un susurro desde el polvo.
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.
5 Pero entonces todos tus enemigos serán como polvo fino; todos tus crueles opresores, como paja que se lleva el viento. Entonces, de repente, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos,
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.
6 el Señor Todopoderoso llegará con truenos, terremotos y tremendos ruidos, con torbellinos, tormentas y llamas de fuego que lo abrasarán todo.
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.
7 Las naciones que asedien a Ariel, que ataquen sus fortificaciones y que atormenten al pueblo, ¡desaparecerán como si fuera un sueño!
[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.
8 Será como alguien hambriento que sueña que está comiendo pero que se despierta todavía con hambre. Será como alguien sediento que sueña que bebe pero que se despierta todavía débil y sediento. Así será para todos tus enemigos, los que atacan el monte Sión.
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].
9 ¡Sorpréndanse y asómbrense! ¡Háganse los ciegos para que no puedan ver! Embriáguese, pero no de vino. Tambaléense, pero no por la cerveza.
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.
10 Porque el Señor los ha adormecido mucho, y ha cerrado los ojos y cubierto las cabezas de los que hablan por Dios y ven visiones.
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.
11 Toda esta visión es como las palabras de un pergamino que está sellado. Si se lo das a alguien que sabe leer y le dices: “Por favor, léelo”, te dirá: “No puedo leerlo porque está sellado”.
[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.”
12 Si se lo das a alguien que no sabe leer y le dices: “Por favor, léelo”, te dirá: “No sé leer”.
When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
13 El Señor dice: “Este pueblo viene a alabarme con sus palabras, y me honran con sus labios, pero sus pensamientos están muy lejos. Su culto a mí sólo consiste en que siguen reglas que la gente les ha enseñado.
[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.
14 Así que una vez más sorprenderé a este pueblo con un milagro tras otro. La sabiduría de los sabios morirá, y la perspicacia de los perspicaces desaparecerá”.
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.
15 La tragedia llega a la gente que se toma tantas molestias para ocultar sus planes al Señor. Trabajan en la oscuridad y se dicen a sí mismos: “Nadie puede vernos, ¿verdad? Nadie lo sabrá, ¿verdad?”
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!’
16 ¡Qué perversos son! ¡Es como si se pensara que el barro hace al alfarero! Debe algo hecho decir a su hacedor: “Tú no me hiciste?” ¿Puede la vasija decirle al alfarero: “Tú no sabes nada?”
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!’”
17 No pasará mucho tiempo y los bosques del Líbano se convertirán en un campo productivo, y el campo productivo parecerá un bosque.
Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
18 En aquel tiempo los sordos oirán las palabras del rollo, y los ojos de los ciegos verán a través de la oscuridad lo que allí está escrito.
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.
19 Los humildes serán aún más felices en el Señor, y los pobres encontrarán su alegría en el Santo de Israel.
Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
20 Los crueles ya no existirán, los despreciadores desaparecerán, y los que buscan hacer el mal serán destruidos:
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.
21 los que dicen cosas para engañar a otros y hacerlos pecar, los que atrapan a la gente con argumentos legales en los tribunales, los que mienten para engañar a los inocentes.
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.
22 Esto es lo que el Señor, que redimió a Abraham, dice a los descendientes de Jacob: Ya no tendrán que avergonzarlos; sus rostros ya no palidecerán de miedo.
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.
23 Cuando vean a todos sus hijos y todo lo que he hecho por ustedes, entonces se darán cuenta de que mi carácter es santo, y respetarán al Santo de Jacob. Tendrán reverencia por el Dios de Israel.
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.
24 Los que se han extraviado comprenderán sus errores; los que refunfuñan aprenderán a recibir instrucción.
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.”
