Isaías 27
1 Aquel día Yavé castigará con su espada dura, grande y poderosa al cocodrilo, serpiente veloz, al Cocodrilo, serpiente tortuosa, y matará al dragón del 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 Aquel día elevarán el cántico de la viña deleitosa:
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Yo, Yavé, soy su Guardián. La riego en todo momento para que nadie la dañe. La cuido noche y 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. ¿Quién pondrá contra Mí cardos y espinos? Me lanzaría sobre ellos y los quemaría de inmediato.
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 que él se acoja a mi amparo y haga la paz conmigo. Él puede hacer la paz conmigo.
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Días vendrán cuando Jacob echará raíz y florecerá. Le saldrán nuevas ramas y llenarán la superficie del mundo con su fruto.
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 ¿Él fue herido como hirió al que lo hería, o él murió como murieron sus asesinos?
[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 Tú contendiste contra ella. Los enviaste lejos. Con tu fuerte viento los expulsaste 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 De esta manera será perdonada la iniquidad de Jacob. Éste será el precio completo de perdonar su pecado, cuando él convierta todas las piedras del altar en piedras de cal pulverizadas, y no se levanten los símbolos de Asera, ni las imágenes del sol.
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 será desolada. La ciudad habitada será abandonada y dejada desierta. Allí pastará el becerro. Allí tendrá su corral y acabará 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 sequen serán quebradas. Mujeres llegarán a encenderlas. Porque aquél no es un pueblo de entendimiento. Por tanto, su Hacedor no tendrá misericordia de él. El que lo formó no se compadecerá.
[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 Aquel día Yavé golpeará con vara, desde el Gran Río hasta el arroyo de Egipto. Y ustedes, hijos de Israel, serán recogidos uno por uno.
[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 Acontecerá también aquel día que se tocará la gran trompeta. Vendrán los que fueron dispersados en la tierra de Asiria y los dispersados en la tierra de Egipto. Se postrarán ante Yavé en la Montaña Santa, en 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.
