Isaías 42
1 Aquí está mi Esclavo a Quien Yo sostengo, mi Escogido, en Quien se complace mi alma. Puse mi Espíritu sobre Él. Él traerá la justicia a las naciones.
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
2 No gritará, ni alzará su voz, ni la hará oír por las calles.
He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
3 No partirá la caña quebrada, ni apagará el pabilo que humea. Ejecutará fielmente justo juicio.
He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
4 No se cansará, ni desfallecerá, hasta que establezca la justicia en la tierra. En su enseñanza confiarán las costas.
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
5 ʼEL, el Yavé, Quien crea los cielos y los despliega, Quien extendió la tierra y todo lo que en ella brota, Quien da aliento a la gente que la habita y espíritu a los que caminan en ella, dice:
God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
6 Yo, Yavé, te llamé en justicia y te sostendré de la mano. Te guardaré y te estableceré como Pacto para el pueblo, como Luz de los gentiles,
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
7 para que abras los ojos de los ciegos, y saques de la cárcel a los presos y de la prisión a los que viven en oscuridad.
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
8 Yo, Yavé: Éste es mi Nombre. No daré mi gloria a otro, ni mi alabanza a los ídolos.
I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
9 Ciertamente se cumplieron las cosas primeras. Yo les anuncio cosas nuevas. Antes que salgan a la luz, Yo se las anuncio.
See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
10 Canten a Yavé un cántico nuevo, su alabanza desde el confín de la tierra, de los que navegan en el mar y los que viven en él, ustedes costas y los habitantes de ellas.
Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
11 Que la región despoblada y sus aldeas levanten su voz, los pueblos donde habita Cedar. Canten jubilosos los habitantes de Sela. Desde las cimas de las montañas griten de júbilo.
Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
12 Tributen la gloria a Yavé. Proclamen sus alabanzas en las costas.
Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.
13 Yavé sale como valiente. Excita su ardor como guerrero, vocea y lanza un grito de guerra. Prevalecerá contra sus enemigos.
The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
14 Durante mucho tiempo callé. Guardé silencio y me detuve. Ahora, como la parturienta, grito desolado y trago a la vez.
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
15 Devastaré montañas y colinas. Marchitaré todo su verdor. Convertiré los ríos en islotes y secaré las lagunas.
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
16 Conduciré a los ciegos por un camino que no conocieron. Andarán por senderos que no conocían. Cambiaré la oscuridad en luz delante de ellos y los lugares escabrosos en llanura. Estas cosas les haré y no los desampararé.
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
17 Pero los que confían en los ídolos retrocederán defraudados. Los que dicen a las estatuas fundidas: Ustedes son nuestros ʼelohim.
They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
18 Sordos, oigan y escuchen. Ciegos, vean y miren.
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
19 ¿Quién es ciego, sino mi esclavo? ¿Quién es sordo, sino mi mensajero que envié? ¿Quién es ciego como el emisario y ciego como el esclavo de Yavé?
Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
20 Tú ves muchas cosas, pero no las guardas. Tienes abiertos los oídos, pero no escuchas.
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
21 Yavé, por causa de su justicia, se complació en magnificar la Ley.
It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
22 Pero éste es un pueblo saqueado y pisoteado, todos atrapados en cavernas y encerrados en prisiones. Lo saquean, y no hay quien libre. Lo despojan, y no hay quien diga: Devuélvanlo.
But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
23 ¿Quién de ustedes oirá esto? ¿Quién atenderá y escuchará con respecto a lo que viene?
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
24 ¿Quién entregó a Jacob al saqueo, a Israel a los depredadores? ¿No fue Yavé, contra Quien pecamos? Ellos no quisieron andar en sus caminos, ni obedecer su Ley.
Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.
25 Por tanto, descargó sobre él el ardor de su ira, el furor de la guerra. Lo rodeaban sus llamas, pero no entendió. Lo consumió, pero no hizo caso.
For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.
