Ezequiel 8
1 Y aconteció en el sexto año, en el mes sexto, a los cinco del mes, que yo estaba sentado en mi casa, y los ancianos de Judá estaban sentados delante de mí, y allí cayó sobre mí la mano del Señor Jehová.
On the fifth day of the sixth month [of that year], almost six years after we Israeli people had been (exiled/forced to go to Babylon), I was sitting in my house. The elders of Judah were sitting in front of me. Suddenly the power [MTY] of Yahweh the Lord came on me.
2 Y miré, y he aquí una semejanza que parecía de fuego: desde donde parecían sus lomos para abajo, era fuego; y desde sus lomos arriba parecía como un resplandor, como la vista de un ámbar.
[in a vision] I saw someone who resembled a man. Below his waist, [his body] was like fire, and above his waist [his body] was glowing like very hot metal.
3 Y aquella semejanza extendió la mano, y tomóme por las guedejas de mi cabeza; y el espíritu me alzó entre el cielo y la tierra, y llevóme a Jerusalem en visiones de Dios, a la entrada de la puerta de adentro que mira hacia el aquilón, donde estaba la habitación de la imagen del zelo, la que hacía zelar.
He reached out what seemed to be a hand and grabbed me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up high above the earth, and in visions God took me [from Babylon] to Jerusalem. He took me [to the temple], to the north gate, to the place where there was an idol that caused Yahweh to be very disgusted and furious.
4 Y he aquí que allí estaba la gloria del Dios de Israel, como la visión que yo había visto en el campo.
And there in front of me was the brilliant light that indicated the presence of the God whom the Israeli [people previously worshiped. It was] like the vision that I had seen alongside the Kebar River/Canal.
5 Y díjome: Hijo del hombre, alza ahora tus ojos camino del aquilón. Y alcé mis ojos camino del aquilón, y he aquí al aquilón, junto a la puerta del altar, la imagen del zelo en la entrada.
Yahweh said to me, “You human, look toward the north!” So I looked, and I saw in the entrance of the gate near the altar that idol that caused Yahweh to be disgusted and furious.
6 Y díjome: Hijo del hombre, ¿no ves lo que estos hacen: las grandes abominaciones que la casa de Israel hace aquí para alejarme de mi santuario? mas vuélvete aun, y verás abominaciones mayores.
He said to me, “You human, do you see what those Israeli people [MTY] are doing? They are doing detestable things here, things that will cause me to abandon my temple. But you will see things that are even more detestable.”
7 Y llevóme a la entrada del patio, y miré, y he aquí un agujero que estaba en la pared.
Then he brought me to the entrance of the courtyard. I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
8 Y díjome: Hijo del hombre, cava ahora en la pared. Y cavé en la pared, y he aquí una puerta.
He said to me, “You human, dig through the wall here.” So I dug through the wall, and I saw a doorway inside.
9 Y díjome: Entra, y ve las malas abominaciones que estos hacen allí.
He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things that they are doing there!”
10 Y entré, y miré, y he aquí imágenes de todas serpientes y animales: la abominación, y todos los ídolos de la casa de Israel, que estaban pintados en la pared al derredor.
So I went in through the doorway and looked, and I saw, all over the [of a big room, drawings of] all kinds of creatures that scurry across the ground and [other] detestable animals, and drawings of all the idols that the people of [were worshiping].
11 Y setenta varones de los ancianos de la casa de Israel, y Jezonías, hijo de Safán, estaba en medio de ellos, los cuales estaban delante de ellos, cada uno con su incensario en su mano; y espesura de niebla del sahumerio que subía.
In front of them stood 70 elders of Israel. Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing among them. Each of them was holding a pan in which incense was burning, and fragrant smoke of the burning incense was rising up.
12 Y díjome: Hijo del hombre, ¿has visto las cosas que los ancianos de la casa de Israel hacen en tinieblas, cada uno en las cámaras de su pintura? Porque dicen: No nos ve Jehová: Jehová ha dejado la tierra.
Yahweh said to me, “You human, look at [RHQ] what the Israeli elders are doing here in the darkness, each of them standing in front of the shrine of his own idol! They are saying, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has deserted this country.’”
13 Y díjome: Vuélvete aun, verás abominaciones mayores, que hacen estos.
He also said, “But you will see things that are even more detestable!”
14 Y llevóme a la entrada de la puerta de la casa de Jehová, que está al aquilón; y he aquí mujeres que estaban allí sentadas endechando a Tammuz.
Then he took me to the entrance at the north gate of the temple. I saw women sitting there, mourning for [the death of the god of the people of Babylonia], Tammuz.
15 Y díjome: ¿No ves, hijo del hombre? Vuélvete aun, verás abominaciones mayores que estas.
He said to me, “You human, you see this [RHQ], but you will see things that are more detestable than this!”
16 Y metióme en el patio de adentro de la casa de Jehová; y he aquí junto a la entrada del templo de Jehová, entre la entrada y el altar, como veinte y cinco varones, sus traseras vueltas al templo de Jehová, y sus rostros al oriente, y se encorvaban al nacimiento del sol.
Then he took me into the courtyard outside the temple. There at the entrance of the temple, between the porch and the altar, were about 25 men. Their backs were toward the temple and their faces were toward the east, and they were bowing down to [worship] the sun [as it rose] in the east.
17 Y díjome: ¿No has visto, hijo del hombre? ¿Es cosa liviana para la casa de Judá hacer las abominaciones que hacen aquí? después que han henchido la tierra de maldad, y se tornaron a irritarme, he aquí que ponen hedor a sus narices.
He said to me, “You human, you see [RHQ] what they are doing. [Do you think that] it is not important that these men of Judah are doing these detestable things here? [But they are doing other terrible things]. They are acting violently throughout their country, and continually causing me to be angry. Look at them! They are insulting me by their actions [IDM]!
18 Pues también yo haré en mi furor, no perdonará mi ojo, ni tendré misericordia; y gritarán a mis oídos con gran voz, y no los oiré.
So I will show them that I am very angry. I will not pity them or act mercifully toward them. And even if they shout to me [to help them], I will not pay attention to them.”
