Isaías 37
1 Sucedió que cuando el rey Ezequías lo oyó, también rasgó sus ropas. Se cubrió de tela áspera y fue a la Casa de Yavé.
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
2 Envió a Eliaquim, mayordomo de palacio, a Sebna, el escriba, y a los más ancianos de los sacerdotes, cubiertos de tela áspera, al profeta Isaías, hijo de Amoz,
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 y le dijeron: Ezequías dijo: Hoy es un día de angustia, castigo y vergüenza. Los hijos llegaron hasta el cuello del útero, pero no hay fuerza para dar a luz.
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
4 Quizás Yavé tu ʼElohim haya escuchado las palabras del Rabsaces, a quien su amo, el rey de Asiria, mandó para provocar al ʼElohim viviente, y reprenda las palabras que Yavé tu ʼElohim escuchó. Por tanto, haz oración por el remanente que queda.
It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
5 Los esclavos del rey Ezequías fueron a Isaías,
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 quien les respondió: Digan a su amo: Yavé dice: No temas las palabras que oíste, con las cuales los esclavos del rey de Asiria me vituperaron.
And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
7 Ciertamente pondré cierto espíritu en él. Oirá un rumor, regresará a su tierra, y en su tierra lo haré caer a espada.
See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
8 Así que el Rabsaces, quien oyó que el rey de Siria se retiró de Laquis, regresó y lo halló cuando combatía contra Libna.
So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
9 Al oír que Tirraca, rey de Etiopía, salió a luchar contra él, [el rey de Asiria] envió mensajeros a Ezequías para que le dijeran:
And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
10 Digan a Ezequías, rey de Judá: No te engañe tu ʼElohim en Quien confías, al pensar que Jerusalén no será entregada en mano del rey de Asiria.
This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
11 Ciertamente tú mismo oíste lo que los reyes de Asiria hicieron a todos los países cuando los exterminaron. ¿Tú te librarás?
No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
12 ¿Los ʼelohim de las naciones que mis antepasados destruyeron las libraron? ¿Libraron a Gozán, Harán y Resef, y a los hijos de Edén que estaban en Telasar?
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 ¿Dónde están el rey de Hamat, el rey de Arpad, el rey de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, de Hena y de Iva?
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
14 Así que Ezequías recibió la carta de mano de los mensajeros y la leyó. Después Ezequías subió a la Casa de Yavé y la extendió ante Yavé.
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
15 Y Ezequías oró a Yavé:
And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
16 ¡Oh Yavé de las huestes, ʼElohim de Israel, entronizado por encima de los querubines! Solo Tú eres ʼElohim sobre todos los reinos de la tierra. Tú hiciste [el] cielo y [la] tierra.
O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
17 Inclina tu oído, oh Yavé, y escucha. Abre tus ojos, oh Yavé, y mira. Escucha todas las palabras que Senaquerib envió para provocar al ʼElohim vivo.
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
18 Oh Yavé, ciertamente los reyes de Asiria destruyeron todas las naciones y sus tierras.
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
19 Echaron sus ʼelohim al fuego, porque no son ʼElohim, sino obra de manos de hombre, de madera y de piedra. Por eso fueron destruidos.
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
20 Ahora pues, Yavé, ʼElohim nuestro, sálvanos de su mano, para que todos los reinos de la tierra sepan que solo Tú eres Yavé ʼElohim.
But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
21 Entonces Isaías, hijo de Amoz, envió a decir a Ezequías: Yavé, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: En cuanto a lo que pediste en oración con respecto a Senaquerib, rey de Asiria.
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
22 Ésta es la Palabra que Yavé habló con respecto a él: La virgen hija de Sion te desprecia y se burla de ti. La hija de Jerusalén menea despectivamente la cabeza a tu espalda.
This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
23 ¿A quién provocaste y vituperaste? ¿Contra quién alzaste la voz y levantaste tus ojos con altivez? ¡Contra el Santo de Israel!
Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 Por medio de tus esclavos afrentaste a ʼAdonay y dijiste: Con la multitud de mis carrozas subí a las alturas de las montañas, a lo más inaccesible del Líbano. Talé sus más altos cedros y sus mejores cipreses. Llegué hasta el último de sus refugios, hasta lo más denso de su bosque.
You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
25 Cavé y bebí aguas, y sequé todos los ríos de Egipto con la planta de mis pies.
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
26 ¿No lo oíste? Desde antaño lo decidí. En tiempos remotos lo preparé y ahora decido que suceda. Tú estás puesto para reducir las ciudades fortificadas a pilas de ruinas,
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
27 y que sus habitantes, impotentes, abatidos y confusos, sean como pasto del campo, como hierba verde, como herbaje de tejado que se marchita antes de crecer.
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
28 Yo conozco tu sentarte, tu salir, tu entrar y tu ira contra Mí.
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
29 Por cuanto tu enfurecimiento contra Mí y tu soberbia llegaron a mis oídos, pondré mi garfio en tu nariz y mi rienda en tu boca. Te haré regresar por el camino en el cual viniste.
Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
30 Esto te servirá de señal: Este año comerán lo que brota de ella y el segundo año de lo que brote sin sembrar. Al tercer año siembren y cosechen, planten viñas y coman de su fruto.
And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
31 El remanente de la Casa de Judá que quede a salvo, de nuevo echará raíces por abajo y dará frutos por arriba.
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
32 Porque saldrá un remanente de Jerusalén, los sobrevivientes de la Montaña Sion. ¡El celo de Yavé de las huestes hará esto!
For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
33 Por tanto, Yavé dice con respecto al rey de Asiria: No entrará a esta ciudad, ni disparará flecha allí, ni le opondrá escudo, ni levantará contra ella baluartes.
For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
34 Por el camino que vino regresará, y no entrará en esta ciudad, dice Yavé.
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
35 Yo ampararé a esta ciudad para salvarla, por amor a Mí mismo y por amor a David mi esclavo.
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
36 El Ángel de Yavé salió y mató a 185.000 hombres en el campamento de los asirios. Cuando se levantaron temprano por la mañana vieron que todos estaban muertos.
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
37 Entonces Senaquerib, rey de Asiria, levantó el campamento, regresó a Nínive y se quedó allí.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
38 Sucedió que mientras estaba postrado en el templo de su ʼelohim Nisroc, sus hijos Adremelec y Sarezer lo asesinaron a espada y huyeron a la tierra de Ararat. Reinó su hijo Esar-hadón en lugar de él.
And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
