Isaías 27
1 En aquel día, Yahvé, con su espada dura, grande y fuerte, castigará al leviatán, la serpiente que huye, y al leviatán, la serpiente retorcida; y matará al dragón que está en el mar.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 En ese día, cántale: “¡Una viña agradable!
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Yo, Yahvé, soy su guardián. La regaré a cada momento. Para que nadie la dañe, la guardaré de noche y de día.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 No hay ira en mí, pero si encontrara cardos y espinas, ¡haría la batalla! Marcharía sobre ellos y los quemaría juntos.
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 O bien, que se apodere de mi fuerza, para que haga las paces conmigo. Que haga las paces conmigo”.
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 En los días venideros, Jacob echará raíces. Israel florecerá y brotará. Llenarán de frutos la superficie del mundo.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 ¿Los ha golpeado como golpeó a los que los golpearon? ¿O los ha matado como mató a los que los mataron?
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 En la medida en que los expulsa, contiende con ellos. Los ha eliminado con su áspera ráfaga en el día del viento del este.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 Por tanto, con esto será perdonada la iniquidad de Jacob, y éste es todo el fruto de la remoción de su pecado: que él haga que todas las piedras del altar sean como piedras de tiza desmenuzadas, de modo que los postes de Asera y los altares de incienso no se levanten más.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 Porque la ciudad fortificada es solitaria, una morada desierta y abandonada, como el desierto. El becerro se alimentará allí, y allí se acostará, y consumirá sus ramas.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 Cuando sus ramas se marchiten, serán cortadas. Las mujeres vendrán y les prenderán fuego, porque son un pueblo sin entendimiento. Por eso el que los hizo no tendrá compasión de ellos, y el que los formó no les mostrará ningún favor.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 Sucederá en ese día que Yahvé trillará desde la corriente del Éufrates hasta el arroyo de Egipto; y ustedes serán reunidos uno por uno, hijos de Israel.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 Sucederá en ese día que se tocará una gran trompeta; y vendrán los que estaban listos para perecer en la tierra de Asiria, y los que estaban desterrados en la tierra de Egipto, y adorarán a Yahvé en el monte santo de Jerusalén.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
