Isaías 29
1 ¡Ay Ariel, Ariel, ciudad donde acampó David! Añadan un año a otro, sigan su curso las solemnidades.
[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 Pero Yo pondré a Ariel en apuro. Será una ciudad de lamento y llanto, y me será como Ariel.
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 Porque acamparé alrededor de ti. Te sitiaré con campamentos y levantaré empalizadas contra ti.
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 Entonces serás humillada. Hablarás desde el suelo, y tu voz también será como si fuera de un espíritu que habla desde el polvo. Tu lenguaje 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 La multitud de tus enemigos será como granos de polvo fino, la multitud de tus agresores, como nube de pasto seco. Pero de repente, en un momento,
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 serás castigada de parte de Yavé de las huestes con terremotos y el estruendo de grandes truenos, gran ruido, huracán, tempestad y llama de fuego consumidor.
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 Entonces la multitud de todas las naciones que combaten contra Ariel, que pelean contra ella y su fortaleza y la afligen, serán como un sueño, como una visión nocturna,
[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 como el hambriento sueña que come y se despierta con el estómago vacío, o como el sediento sueña que bebe. Pero cuando despierta está cansado y tiene sed. Así será la multitud de todas las naciones que pelean contra la Montaña Sion.
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 ¡Asómbrense y maravíllense! ¡Deslúmbrense y queden ciegos! Embriáguense, pero no con vino. Tambaléense, pero no por el licor.
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 Yavé derramó sobre ustedes, oh profetas, un espíritu de letargo. Cerró sus ojos, oh videntes, y cubrió sus cabezas.
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 Así, toda visión les es como palabras de un rollo sellado. Si se da a uno que sabe leer y se le dice: Lee ahora esto, él responde: 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 Luego se da el rollo al que no sabe leer y se le dice: Lee ahora esto. Y él responde: No sé 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 ʼAdonay dice: Ya que este pueblo se me acerca con la boca y me honra con sus labios, pero su corazón está lejos de Mí. Su temor hacia Mí no es más que un mandamiento de hombres que les fue 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 tanto Yo ciertamente volveré a excitar la admiración de este pueblo con un prodigio grande y espantoso. Porque perecerá la sabiduría de sus sabios y se desvanecerá la inteligencia de sus entendidos.
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 esconden sus planes profundamente de Yavé! Hacen sus obras en la oscuridad y dicen: ¿Quién nos ve? ¿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 Su perversidad ciertamente será estimada como la arcilla del alfarero. ¿Dirá la obra a su hacedor: No me hiciste? ¿Dirá la vasija al que la formó: No me entendiste?
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 se convertirá el Líbano en un campo fructífero dentro de poco tiempo, 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 Aquel día los sordos oirán las Palabras del Rollo, y los ojos de los ciegos verán desde su neblina y oscuridad.
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 Los humildes crecerán en alegría de Yavé, y los necesitados de la humanidad se regocijarán con 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 no quedarán tiranos, y el burlador será exterminado. Ciertamente todos los que intentan hacer el mal serán destruidos.
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 Los que inducen al hombre a pecar con palabras, ponen trampas al que reprende en la puerta y pervierten la causa del justo con falsos argumentos.
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 tanto Yavé, Quien redimió a Abraham, dice a la casa de Jacob: Ya no se avergonzará Jacob. Tampoco volverá a palidecer su semblante.
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 Porque verá en medio de ellos a sus hijos, obra de mis manos, quienes santificarán mi Nombre. Sí, santificarán al Santo de Jacob, y temerán al ʼElohim 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 Los extraviados de espíritu tendrán entendimiento, y los murmuradores aprenderán la lección.
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.”
