Isaías 43

1 Pero ahora, oh Jacob, Yavé, el que te creó, El que te formó, oh Israel, dice: No temas, porque Yo te redimí. Te di nombre. Mío eres tú.

And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine.

2 Cuando pases por las aguas Yo estaré contigo. La corriente no te anegará. Cuando andes por el fuego no te quemarás, ni la llama arderá en ti.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you.

3 Porque Yo, Yavé tu ʼElohim, el Santo de Israel, soy tu Salvador. A Egipto di por tu rescate, a Etiopía y a Seba, a cambio de ti.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have presented Egypt as your atonement, Ethiopia and Seba on your behalf.

4 Porque eres precioso a mis ojos. Fuiste exaltado porque Yo te amo. Daré hombres por ti y naciones por tu vida.

Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life.

5 No temas porque Yo estoy contigo. Del oriente traeré tu descendencia y del occidente te recogeré.

Fear not, for I am with you. I will lead your offspring from the East, and I will gather you from the West.

6 Diré al norte: ¡Da acá! Y al sur: ¡No retengas! Traigan a mis hijos desde lejos y a mis hijas de los confines de la tierra,

I will say to the North, “Release him,” and to the South, “Do not turn him away.” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

7 a todos los llamados con mi Nombre, a los que para gloria mía los crié, los formé y los hice.

And each one who calls upon my name, I have created for my glory. I have formed him, and I have made him.

8 Comparezca el pueblo ciego que tiene ojos, los sordos que tienen oídos.

Lead forth the people who are blind and have eyes, who are deaf and have ears.

9 Congréguense las naciones como si fueran una y reúnanse todos los pueblos. ¿Quién de ellos hay que nos anuncie esto, que nos anuncie las cosas primeras? Preséntense testigos para ganar su causa, y que se oiga y se diga: ¡Es verdad!

All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.”

10 Ustedes son mis testigos, dice Yavé, y mi Esclavo que Yo escogí para que me conozcan, me crean y entiendan que Yo Soy. Antes de Mí no fue formado algún ʼEL, ni existirá después de Mí.

You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.

11 Yo, Yo soy Yavé, y fuera de Mí no hay quien salve.

I am. I am the Lord. And there is no savior apart from me.

12 Yo predije y Yo salvé. Yo se lo informé, y no hubo testigo extraño entre ustedes. Por tanto, dice Yavé, ustedes son mis testigos: Yo soy ʼEL.

I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.

13 Aun antes que hubiera día, Yo Soy. No hay quien libre de mi mano. Lo que Yo hago, ¿quién puede revertirlo?

And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside?

14 Yavé, Redentor de ustedes, el Santo de Israel, dice: Por amor a ustedes envié un mensaje a Babilonia, y los haré bajar a todos como fugitivos, aun a los caldeos, en las naves en las cuales se regocijan.

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.

15 Yo soy Yavé, su Santo, el Creador de Israel, su Rey.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

16 Yavé, Quien abrió camino en el mar y sendero en las aguas impetuosas,

Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters,

17 el que saca a batalla el carruaje y el caballo, el ejército y sus valientes, dice: Ellos caerán juntamente y no volverán a levantarse. Son apagados y se extinguen como un pabilo.

who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished.

18 No se acuerden de las cosas pasadas, ni traigan a la memoria las cosas antiguas.

You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.

19 Ciertamente Yo hago algo nuevo. Pronto saldrá a la luz. ¿No la conocerán? Abriré un camino en el desierto, ríos en la región despoblada.

Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.

20 Me darán honra las fieras del campo, los chacales y los avestruces, porque daré aguas en el desierto y ríos en la región despoblada para dar de beber a mi pueblo escogido,

The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect.

21 el pueblo que Yo formé para Mí mismo a fin de que proclame mi alabanza.

This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.

22 Sin embargo, oh Jacob, no me invocaste. Te cansaste de Mí, oh Israel.

But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.

23 No me trajiste corderos para tus holocaustos, ni me honraste con tus sacrificios. No te obligué a servir con ofrendas, ni te fatigué al pedirte incienso.

You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.

24 No me compraste canela con dinero, ni me saciaste con la sustancia de tus sacrificios, sino pusiste la carga de tus pecados sobre Mí. Me fatigaste con tus iniquidades.

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

25 Yo, Yo soy el que borro tus rebeliones por amor a Mí mismo y no me acordaré de tus pecados.

I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.

26 Recuérdamelo y entremos juntos a juicio. Habla tú para justificarte.

Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.

27 Tu primer antepasado pecó. Tus representantes se rebelaron contra Mí.

Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.

28 Por tanto, Yo deshonré a los jefes del Santuario, entregué a Jacob como maldición y a Israel como oprobio.

And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.