Ezequiel 36
1 Y tú, hijo de hombre, profetiza a las montañas de Israel: Oigan la Palabra de Yavé, oh montañas de Israel.
You human, prophesy about the mountains in Israel. Say to them, “You mountains in Israel, listen to what Yahweh says.
2 ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Porque el enemigo habló contra ustedes: Las alturas eternas son posesión nuestra,
This is what Yahweh the Lord says: Your enemies [happily] said about you, ‘Aha! The mountains in Israel that have existed for a long time have become ours!’”
3 profetiza: ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Por cuanto eran heredad de otras naciones, y se las puso en boca de habladores y murmuradores del pueblo,
Therefore prophesy about those mountains and say, “This is what Yahweh the Lord declares: [Armies of other nations] attacked you [DOU] from every direction, with the result that your land became abandoned, and people of other nations occupied you, and they spoke maliciously about you and slandered you.
4 por tanto, oh montañas de Israel, oigan la Palabra de ʼAdonay Yavé: Así dice ʼAdonay Yavé a las montañas, a las colinas, a los arroyos, a los valles, a las ruinas y asolamientos, y a las ciudades abandonadas que fueron dejadas para el despojo y el escarnio de las otras naciones que están alrededor.
Therefore, you mountains in Israel, listen to this message from me. I, Yahweh the Lord, have something to say to the hills and mountains, to the ravines and valleys, to the deserted ruins and towns whose valuable possessions have been taken and their people ridiculed by the people of other nations around them. This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare: I am very angry [DOU] with the people of Edom and other nations; they have forced you [Israeli people] to endure them insulting you.
5 Por eso ʼAdonay Yavé dice: En el fuego de mi celo ciertamente hablé contra las demás naciones y todo Edom, las cuales, con toda la alegría de su corazón y el desprecio de su alma, se disputaron mi tierra como heredad para que ellos pudieran vaciarla y poseerla como presa y despojo.
6 Por tanto profetiza sobre la tierra de Israel. Dí a las montañas, a las colinas, a los arroyos y a los valles: ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Ciertamente hablé en mi celo y en mi furor, porque ustedes soportaron el insulto de las naciones.
7 Por tanto ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Juré que las naciones que están alrededor de ustedes soportarán sus insultos.
Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: Lifting up my arm, I solemnly declare that the people of the nations that are around you will also endure being insulted.
8 Pero ustedes, oh montañas de Israel, broten sus ramas y den su fruto para mi pueblo Israel, porque ellos volverán pronto.
But [I say to] you mountains in Israel that huge crops of fruit will grow on your trees for my Israeli people, because they will soon return home [from Babylonia].
9 Porque ciertamente Yo estoy a favor de ustedes. Me volveré hacia ustedes, y serán cultivadas y sembradas.
I (am concerned about/will take care of) you, and I will bless you. I will [enable farmers to] plow the ground and plant seed there.
10 Sobre ustedes multiplicaré hombres para toda la Casa de Israel. Las ciudades serán habitadas y las desoladas serán reedificadas.
I will cause the number of people who live on you mountains and everywhere else in Israel to greatly increase. People will live in the towns and rebuild [houses where there are now only] ruins.
11 Les multiplicaré hombres y bestias. Aumentarán y serán fecundos. Causaré que sean habitadas. Las estableceré como eran antiguamente y les haré mayor bien que en sus principios. Y sabrán que Yo soy Yavé.
I will cause the number of people and domestic animals to increase. People will have many children [IDM, DOU]. I will enable people to live there like they did previously, and I will enable them to prosper like they did before. Then you will know that it is I, Yahweh, [who have the power to do what I say that I will do].
12 Sobre ustedes andarán hombres: mi pueblo Israel, quienes tomarán posesión de ustedes, y les serán heredad. Nunca jamás les matarán a los hijos.
I will enable my Israeli people to walk through your mountains. They will own you; you will be their permanent possession. Never again will their children die.
13 ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Por cuanto les dicen: Ustedes son devoradoras de hombres y fueron privadoras de sus hijos para su nación.
This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say to you: People say that [only a small amount of food is produced on your mountains, and as a result the people of Israel] die from hunger.
14 Por tanto ya no devorarán hombres ni privarán de hijos a su nación, dice ʼAdonay Yavé.
Therefore, I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that no longer will that happen.
15 Ya no permitiré que se oigan los insultos de las naciones contra ustedes, ni soportarán ofensas de los pueblos, porque ya no destruirán a los hijos de su nación, dice ʼAdonay Yavé.
No longer will the people of other nations ridicule you; no longer will they laugh at you; no longer will [the armies of] other nations conquer you. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have declared that it will happen.”
16 La Palabra de Yavé vino a mí:
Yahweh gave me another message. He said,
17 Hijo de hombre, cuando la Casa de Israel vivía en su tierra, la contaminaba con sus procedimientos y sus obras. Sus procedimientos eran como inmundicia menstruosa delante de Mí.
“You human, when the Israeli people were living in their own land, they (defiled it/caused it to become unacceptable to me) by the things that they did. I considered that their behavior was [disgusting], like [SIM] the rags/cloths that women use during their monthly menstrual periods.
18 Por tanto derramé mi furor sobre ellos por la sangre que derramaron sobre la tierra, y la contaminaron con sus ídolos.
So I severely punished [MTY] them, because they had murdered [MTY] many people and because they had defiled the land by [worshiping] idols there.
19 También Yo los esparcí entre las naciones, y fueron dispersados por las tierras. Los juzgué según sus procedimientos y sus obras.
I caused them to be scattered among many nations [DOU]. I punished [MTY] them like they deserved to be punished because of their very evil behavior [DOU].
20 Cuando llegaron a las naciones adonde fueron, profanaron mi santo Nombre, porque se decía de ellos: Estos son el pueblo de Yavé, pero tuvieron que salir de la tierra de Él.
And wherever they went among those nations, they caused my reputation [MTY] to be disgraced. What has happened is that the people in those countries said about the Israeli people, ‘They belong to Yahweh, but they were forced to leave the land that he [gave to them].’
21 Pero Yo tuve preocupación a causa de mi santo Nombre, el cual la Casa de Israel profanó entre las naciones adonde fueron.
But I was concerned about my reputation, which the people of Israel had disgraced among the nations to which they were forced to go.
22 Por tanto dí a la Casa de Israel: ʼAdonay Yavé dice: No hago esto por ustedes, oh Casa de Israel, sino por causa de mi santo Nombre, el cual ustedes profanaron entre las naciones adonde llegaron.
Therefore, say to the Israeli people, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: You Israeli people, it is not for your sake that I am going to do these things. Instead, it is for the sake of my sacred reputation, which you have disgraced among the nations to which you were forced to go.
23 Yo santificaré mi gran Nombre que fue profanado entre las naciones adonde fueron, el cual ustedes profanaron en medio de ellas. Y las naciones sabrán que Yo soy Yavé, dice ʼAdonay Yavé, cuando sea santificado en ustedes a vista de ellos.
I will show that my reputation is sacred, a reputation which you have disgraced among the nations to which you were forced to go. And when I show the nations that I am holy, the people of those nations will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].
24 Porque Yo los tomaré de las naciones, los recogeré de todas las tierras y los traeré a su propia tierra.
What I will do is to bring you back from those nations. I will gather you from all the countries [to which you were forced to go], and bring you back to your own land.
25 Entonces rociaré agua limpia sobre ustedes, y serán purificados de todas sus impurezas. Los purificaré de todos sus ídolos.
[It will be as though] [MET] I will sprinkle clean water on you, and then you will be clean. I will cause you to be cleansed from everything that has defiled you, and I will cause you to stop worshiping idols.
26 Les daré un corazón nuevo y pondré un Espíritu nuevo dentro de ustedes. Quitaré el corazón de piedra de su cuerpo y les daré un corazón de carne.
I will give you a completely new way of thinking [IDM]. I will enable you to stop being stubborn [IDM], and I will enable you to obey me from your inner beings [IDM].
27 Pondré dentro de ustedes mi Espíritu y vivirán según mis Estatutos. Guardarán mis Preceptos y los practicarán.
I will put my Spirit within you and enable you to carefully obey all my laws [DOU].
28 Vivirán en la tierra que di a sus antepasados. Ustedes serán mi pueblo, y Yo seré su ʼElohim.
You will again live in the land that I gave to your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
29 Los purificaré de todas sus impurezas. Llamaré al grano y lo multiplicaré. No los someteré al hambre.
I will free you from all your disgraceful behavior. I will cause your grain to be plentiful, and I will not send a famine to you again.
30 Multiplicaré el fruto del árbol y el producto del campo, de modo que nunca más reciban la afrenta del hambre entre las naciones.
I will cause your fruit trees to produce plenty of fruit and your ground to produce plenty of good crops, with the result that you will no longer be ridiculed by the people of other nations because of your not having enough food.
31 Entonces recordarán sus malos procedimientos y sus obras que no fueron buenas. Se avergonzarán de ustedes mismos por sus iniquidades y sus repugnancias.
When that happens, you will think about your previous evil behavior and wicked deeds, and you will (be very displeased with/hate) yourselves for your sins and the detestable things that you did.
32 No hago esto por amor a ustedes, dice ʼAdonay Yavé. Sépanlo bien: avergüéncense y cúbranse de confusión por sus procedimientos, oh Casa de Israel.
But I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I want you to know that it is not for your sake that I will do those things. You Israeli people ought to be ashamed of your behavior.
33 ʼAdonay Yavé dice: El día cuando los purifique de todas sus iniquidades causaré que las ciudades vuelvan a ser habitadas y los lugares devastados sean reedificados.
This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: At the time that I forgive you for all the sins that you have committed, I will enable you to live in your towns again and to build houses where there are now only ruins.
34 La tierra desolada será cultivada, en vez de ser una desolación a la vista de todo el que pasa.
People who walk through your country will see that your land is again cultivated instead of (being desolate/having nothing growing in it).
35 Y dirán: ¡Esta tierra que fue desolada es como el huerto del Edén! ¡Estas ciudades solitarias, desoladas y destruidas, están fortificadas y habitadas!
They will say, “This land that was ruined has become [very fertile/productive] like [SIM] the garden of Eden! The cities that were piles of ruins, empty and destroyed, now have walls around them, and people live in those cities.”
36 Las naciones que queden en sus alrededores sabrán que Yo, Yavé, reedifiqué los lugares arruinados. Derribé y planté lo que estaba desolado. Yo, Yavé, hablé, y lo haré.
When that happens, the people in the nations that are around you that still exist will know that it is I, Yahweh, who have enabled you to rebuild what was destroyed, and to again plant crops in the fields that had nothing growing in them. I, Yahweh, have said [that it will happen], and I will cause it to happen.
37 ʼAdonay Yavé dice: Aún permitiré que la Casa de Israel me busque para hacerles esto: Multiplicaré hombres como un rebaño.
This is also what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: Again I will heed what you Israeli people are pleading for me to do for you. I will cause your people to be as numerous as your sheep,
38 Como las ovejas consagradas, como las ovejas de Jerusalén en sus solemnidades, las ciudades asoladas estarán llenas de rebaños de hombres. Entonces sabrán que Yo soy Yavé.
as numerous as the flocks of sheep that will be needed for offerings in Jerusalem during your regular festivals. The cities that are now ruined will be filled with people, and then you will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’”
