Isaías 10
1 ¡Ay de los que dictan leyes injustas y los que registran decisiones inicuas,
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
2 privan de justicia al débil y niegan el derecho a los pobres de mi pueblo, y tienen a las viudas como presas y despojan a los huérfanos!
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
3 ¿Qué harán el día del castigo? ¿A quién huirán en busca de auxilio en la devastación que vendrá de lejos? ¿Dónde dejarán su riqueza?
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
4 Nada, sino agacharse entre los cautivos, o caer entre los asesinados. A pesar de todo esto, no se aplaca su furor. Su mano sigue extendida.
... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 ¡Ay de Asiria, vara de mi furor, en cuyas manos puse el cetro de mi ira!
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
6 La enviaré contra una nación profana. La comisionaré contra el pueblo de mi furor, para que capture el botín, tome el despojo, y lo pisotee como barro de las calles.
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
7 Pero no lo entenderá así, ni serán esos sus designios. Su propósito será destruir y exterminar muchas naciones.
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
8 Porque dijo: ¿No son reyes todos mis ministros?
For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
9 ¿No es Calno como Carquemis? ¿No es Hamat como Arfad? ¿No es Samaria como Damasco?
Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 Así como mi mano alcanzó los reinos de los ʼelohim, aunque sus imágenes eran más que las de Jerusalén y de Samaria,
As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
11 ¿no haré así a Jerusalén y a sus ʼelohim, como hice a Samaria y a sus ʼelohim?
So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.
12 Por tanto, acontecerá que cuando ʼAdonay acabe toda su obra en la Montaña Sion y en Jerusalén, castigará el fruto del corazón arrogante del rey de Asiria, y la arrogancia altiva de sus ojos.
For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
13 Porque dijo: Con la fuerza de mi mano hice esto, con mi talento, porque soy entendido. Así quité los territorios de los pueblos. Me apoderé de sus tesoros, y como valiente derribé a los que estaban entronizados.
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
14 Como se recogen de un nido los huevos abandonados, mi mano tomó la riqueza de los pueblos. Así me apoderé yo de toda la tierra, y no hubo quien abriera su pico o gorjeara.
And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
15 ¿Se enaltecerá el hacha contra el que la empuña? ¿Se engrandecerá la sierra sobre el que la maneja? ¡Como si el cetro levantara al que lo levanta, o la vara levantara al que no es madera!
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
16 Por eso ʼAdonay Yavé de las huestes enviará una enfermedad exterminante entre sus robustos guerreros, y debajo de su gloria encenderá una hoguera de fuego ardiente.
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
17 La luz de Israel se convertirá en fuego, su Santo en llama de fuego que arderá y consumirá sus zarzas y sus espinos en un solo día.
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
18 Él consumirá totalmente alma y cuerpo, la gloria de su bosque y de su campo fértil. Será como cuando un enfermo languidece.
And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.
19 Los árboles que queden en el bosque serán tan pocos que hasta un niño los podrá contar.
And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
20 Acontecerá en aquel día que el remanente de Israel y los de la casa de Jacob ya no se apoyarán en su agresor, sino verdaderamente se apoyarán en Yavé, el Santo de Israel.
And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
21 Un remanente volverá, el remanente de Jacob, al ʼEL poderoso.
The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
22 Pues aunque tu pueblo, oh Israel, sea como la arena del mar, solo un remanente de ellos volverá. ¡La destrucción decretada rebosará de justicia!
For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
23 ʼAdonay Yavé de las huestes ejecutará la completa destrucción decretada en medio de toda la tierra.
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.
24 Por tanto, ʼAdonay Yavé de las huestes dice: Pueblo mío que vive en Sion, no temas a Asiria. Te herirá con vara y alzará su cetro contra ti a la manera de Egipto.
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.
25 Porque dentro de muy poco tiempo mi furor y mi enojo se aplicarán a la destrucción de ellos.
For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.
26 Yavé de las huestes levantará látigo contra ellos, como en la matanza de Madián junto a la peña de Horeb. Alzará su vara sobre el mar, como hizo en Egipto.
And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
27 Acontecerá en aquel tiempo que su carga será quitada de tu hombro y su yugo de tu nuca. El yugo se pudrirá a causa de tu unción.
And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
28 Viene contra Ajat, pasa por Migrón, y en Micmas pasará revista a sus armas.
He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.
29 Pasan el vado y dicen: Geba será nuestro alojamiento. Ramá está aterrada, Gabaa de Saúl huyó.
They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.
30 ¡Clama a gran voz, hija de Galim! ¡Escucha, Lais! ¡Pobrecita Anatot!
Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.
31 Madmena huyó, y los habitantes de Gebim buscan refugio.
Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.
32 Hoy mismo hace alto en Nob. Ya agita la mano contra la Montaña de la hija de Sion, la Montaña de Jerusalén.
This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 ¡Miren! El ʼAdón Yavé de las huestes desgaja el ramaje con violencia. Los de gran altura son talados. Los más altos serán abatidos.
See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
34 Cortará con hierro la espesura del bosque. El Líbano caerá por causa del Poderoso.
And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
