Isaías 29
1 ¡Ay de Ariel! ¡Ariel, la ciudad donde acampó David! Añade año a año; que vengan las 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 entonces afligiré a Ariel, y habrá luto y lamentación. Ella será para mí como el hogar de un altar.
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 Acamparé contra ti a tu alrededor y te sitiaré con tropas apostadas. Levantaré contra ti obras de asedio.
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 y hablarás desde la tierra. Tu discurso será un murmullo del polvo. Tu voz será como la de un espíritu familiar, desde la tierra, y tu discurso susurrará 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 la multitud de tus enemigos será como polvo fino, y la multitud de los despiadados como paja que se desvanece. Sí, será en un instante, de repente.
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 Será visitada por el Señor de los Ejércitos con truenos, con terremotos, con gran ruido, con torbellino y tormenta, y con la llama de un fuego devorador.
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 La multitud de todas las naciones que luchan contra Ariel, todos los que luchan contra ella y su fortaleza, y que la angustian, será como un sueño, una visión de la noche.
[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 cuando un hombre hambriento sueña, y he aquí que come; pero se despierta, y su hambre no está satisfecha; o como cuando un hombre sediento sueña, y he aquí que bebe; pero se despierta, y he aquí que está desfallecido, y todavía tiene sed. Así será la multitud de todas las naciones que luchan contra 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 ¡Parad y preguntad! ¡Cegad y sed ciegos! Están ebrios, pero no de vino; se tambalean, pero no de bebida fuerte.
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 ha derramado sobre ustedes un espíritu de sueño profundo, y ha cerrado sus ojos, los profetas, y ha cubierto sus cabezas, los videntes.
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 visión se ha vuelto para ustedes como las palabras de un libro sellado, que los hombres entregan a uno instruido, diciéndole: “Lee esto, por favor”; y él dice: “No puedo, 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 y el libro se entrega a uno no instruido, diciéndole: “Lee esto, por favor”; y él dice: “No puedo 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 dijo: “Porque este pueblo se acerca con su boca y me honra con sus labios, pero ha alejado su corazón de mí, y su temor a mí es un mandamiento de hombres que ha sido 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 por lo tanto, he aquí que procederé a hacer una obra maravillosa en este pueblo, una obra maravillosa y un prodigio; y la sabiduría de sus sabios perecerá, y el entendimiento de sus prudentes se ocultará.”
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 Ay de los que ocultan profundamente su consejo a Yahvé, y cuyas obras están en la oscuridad, y que dicen: “¿Quién nos ve?” y “¿Quién nos conoce?”
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 ¡Ustedes ponen las cosas al revés! ¿Acaso el alfarero debe ser considerado como el barro, para que la cosa hecha diga de quien la hizo: “Él no me hizo”; o la cosa formada diga de quien la formó: “Él no tiene entendimiento”?
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 es todavía muy poco tiempo, y el Líbano se convertirá en un campo fructífero, y el campo fructífero será considerado como 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 día, los sordos oirán las palabras del libro, y los ojos de los ciegos verán desde la oscuridad y desde las tinieblas.
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 También los humildes aumentarán su alegría en Yahvé, y los pobres entre los hombres se alegrarán 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 Porque el despiadado queda reducido a la nada, y el burlón cesa, y todos los que están alertas para hacer el mal son cortados —
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 que hacen que una persona sea acusada por una palabra, y ponen una trampa al que reprende en la puerta, y que privan al inocente de la justicia con un testimonio falso.
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 Por eso Yahvé, que redimió a Abraham, dice respecto a la casa de Jacob: “Jacob ya no se avergonzará, ni su rostro palidecerá.
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 Pero cuando vea a sus hijos, obra de mis manos, en medio de él, santificarán mi nombre. Sí, santificarán al Santo de Jacob, y se pondrán a temer al 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 Tambiénlos que se equivocan de espíritu llegarán al entendimiento, y los que refunfuñan recibirán 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.”
