Isaías 40
1 ¡Consuelen, consuelen a mi pueblo, dice su ʼElohim!
“Be consoled, be consoled, O my people!” says your God.
2 ¡Hablen al corazón de Jerusalén! ¡Proclámenle que su dura milicia terminó, y su culpa fue cancelada! Pues de mano de Yavé recibió el doble por todos sus pecados.
Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out to her! For her malice has reached its end. Her iniquity has been forgiven. She has received double for all her sins from the hand of the Lord.
3 Una voz clama: ¡Preparen el camino a Yavé en el desierto! ¡Allanen una calzada a nuestro ʼElohim en la soledad!
The voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight the paths of our God, in a solitary place.
4 Todo valle sea levantado, toda montaña y colina rebajadas, lo torcido se enderece, y lo escabroso se allane.
Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked will be straightened, and the uneven will become level ways.
5 La gloria de Yavé se manifestará. Todo humano juntamente la verá, porque habló la boca de Yavé.
And the glory of the Lord will be revealed. And all flesh together will see that the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 Una voz dice: ¡Proclama! Y respondí: ¿Qué proclamaré? Que todo humano es como hierba, y todo su esplendor como la flor del campo.
The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” And I said, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 Se seca la hierba. Se marchita la flor cuando el aliento de Yavé sopla sobre ellas. En verdad el pueblo es hierba.
The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. For the Spirit of the Lord has blown over it. Truly, the people are like grass.
8 Se seca la hierba, se marchita la flor, pero la Palabra del ʼElohim nuestro permanece para siempre.
The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. But the Word of our Lord remains for eternity.”
9 ¡Súbete a una montaña alta, oh Sion, anunciadora de buenas noticias! ¡Levanta fuerte tu voz, oh Jerusalén, anunciadora de buenas noticias! ¡Levántala, no temas! Dí a las ciudades de Judá: ¡Aquí está tu ʼElohim!
You who evangelize Zion, climb a high mountain! You who evangelize Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah: “Behold, your God!”
10 ¡Miren: ʼAdonay Yavé viene con poder, y su brazo señorea! ¡Ciertamente su galardón viene con Él y su recompensa lo precede!
Behold, the Lord God will arrive in strength, and his arm will rule. Behold, his reward is with him, and his work is before him.
11 Apacentará su rebaño como pastor. Recogerá a los corderitos con su brazo. Los llevará en su seno, y pastoreará suavemente a las recién paridas.
He will pasture his flock like a shepherd. He will gather together the lambs with his arm, and he will lift them up to his bosom, and he himself will carry the very young.
12 ¿Quién midió el agua en el hueco de su mano, o calculó la extensión del cielo con su palmo y juntó el polvo de la tierra con tres dedos? ¿Quién pesó en balanza las montañas y con pesas las colinas?
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and who has weighed the heavens with his palm? Who has suspended the mass of the earth with three fingers, and who has weighed the mountains on a balance and the hills on a scale?
13 ¿Quién escudriñó el Espíritu de Yavé, y le enseñó como consejero suyo?
Who has assisted the Spirit of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor and has revealed things to him?
14 ¿De quién tomó consejo, quién lo instruyó, lo adoctrinó en el camino de la justicia, le enseñó el conocimiento o le mostró el camino del discernimiento?
With whom has he consulted? And who has instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and guided him to knowledge, and revealed the way of understanding to him?
15 Ciertamente, las naciones le son gotas en un cubo. Valen lo que vale el polvillo de la balanza. Las islas le pesan como un grano de polvo.
Behold, the nations are like a drop of water in a bucket, and they are considered as the smallest grain on a balance. Behold, the islands are like a little dust.
16 El Líbano no basta para el fuego, ni todos sus animales alcanzan para el holocausto.
And Lebanon will not be sufficient to start a fire, and its animals will not be sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 Todas las naciones son como nada delante de Él. Son estimadas como cosa vana.
All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.
18 ¿Con quién compararán a ʼEL? ¿Con cuál imagen lo compararán ustedes?
Therefore, to whom would you liken God? Or with what image would you replace him?
19 El escultor funde una estatua, el orfebre la recubre de oro y el platero le suelda cadenillas de plata.
Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
20 El pobre escoge para ofrecerle un leño que no se pudra. Se busca un hábil tallador que le haga una estatua que no se mueva.
He has chosen strong wood that will not decay. The skillful artisan seeks a way to set up an idol that cannot be moved.
21 ¿No saben ni oyeron? ¿No se lo anunciaron desde un principio? ¿No lo entendieron desde la fundación del mundo?
Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been announced to you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth?
22 Él se sienta sobre el círculo de la tierra, y sus habitantes son como saltamontes. Él extendió los cielos como una cortina y los despliega como una tienda para morar.
He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
23 Él convierte en nada a los poderosos y a los que gobiernan la tierra en cosa vana
He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.
24 cuando solo son plantados, son sembrados, son arraigados en la tierra, sopla sobre ellos y se marchitan. El remolino de viento los arrebata como pasto seco.
And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.
25 El Santo dice: ¿A quién me compararán ustedes, o me asemejarán?
“And to whom would you compare me or equate me?” says the Holy One.
26 Levanten sus ojos a lo alto y miren: ¿Quién creó estas cosas? Él saca y cuenta sus huestes, las cuales llama por sus nombres. Ninguna faltará. Tal es la grandeza de su fuerza y la fortaleza de su poder.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.
27 ¿Por qué hablas, oh Jacob, y dices, oh Israel: Mi camino está oculto de Yavé? ¿Mi ʼElohim ignora mi causa?
Why do you say this, O Jacob, and why do you speak this way, O Israel? “My way has been hidden from the Lord, and my judgment escaped notice by my God.”
28 ¿No lo sabes ni lo oíste? El eterno ʼElohim, Yavé, el Creador de los confines de la tierra, no se cansa ni se fatiga. Su entendimiento es insondable.
Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.
29 Él fortalece al cansado y aumenta la fuerza al que no tiene vigor.
It is he who gives strength to the weary, and it is he who increases fortitude and strength in those who are failing.
30 Aun los muchachos se fatigan y se cansan. Los jóvenes tropiezan y caen,
Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity.
31 pero los que esperan en Yavé tienen nuevas fuerzas. Levantarán las alas como águilas, correrán y no se cansarán, caminarán y no se fatigarán.
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.
