Isaías 16
1 Enviád cordero al enseñoreador de la tierra, desde la Piedra del desierto al monte de la hija de Sión.
[The rulers of Moab will say to each other, ] “We must send some [lambs] from Sela [city] as a gift to the ruler of Judah [to persuade him to not allow his army to attack us any more]. We should send them through the desert to the king.
2 Y será como ave espantada, que se huye de su nido, así serán las hijas de Moab a los vados de Arnón.
The women of Moab will be left alone at the (fords of/places where people can walk across) the Arnon [River]; they will be like [SIM] birds that have been pushed out of their nests.
3 Toma consejo, haz juicio: pon tu sombra en el mediodía como la noche: esconde los desterrados, no descubras al huido.
They will cry out, ‘Help us! Tell us what we should do! Protect us completely [MET], we who are running away [from our enemies], and do not (betray us/tell our enemies where we are).
4 Moren en ti mis desterrados, o! Moab: séles escondedero de la presencia del destruidor; porque el chupador fenecerá, el destruidor tendrá fin, el hollador será consumido de sobre la tierra.
Allow [those of us] who are fleeing from Moab to stay with you; hide/protect us from [our enemies who want to] destroy us!’ [Some day] there will be no one to oppress us, and our enemies will stop destroying [our land].
5 Y componerse ha trono en misericordia; y asentarse ha sobre él en firmeza en el tabernáculo de David quien juzgue, y busque el juicio, y apresure la justicia.
Then [Yahweh] will appoint someone to be king who will be [a descendant of King] David. As he rules [MTY], he will be merciful and truthful. He will always do what is fair/just and quickly do what is righteous.”
6 Oído hemos la soberbia de Moab, soberbio mucho: su soberbia, y su arrogancia, y su altivez: mas sus mentiras no serán firmes.
We [people of Judah] have heard about [the people of] Moab; we have heard that they are very proud and conceited [DOU]; they are insolent, but what they proudly say about themselves is not true.
7 Por tanto aullará Moab, todo él aullará: gemiréis por los fundamentos de Kir-jareset, empero heridos.
[Some day all the people in] Moab will weep. They will all mourn, because [there will be no more] raisin cakes in Kir-Hareseth [city].
8 Porque las vides de Jesebón fueron taladas, y las vides de Sibma: señores de naciones hollaron sus generosos sarmientos que habían llegado hasta Jazer: habían cundido hasta el desierto: sus nobles plantas se extendieron, pasaron la mar.
The [crops in] the fields at Heshbon [city] will wither, and the vineyards at Sibmah [town] will wither also. The armies of [other] nations will destroy Moab, which is [like] [MET] a beautiful grapevine whose branches spread [north] to Jazer [town] and [east] to the desert. Its branches spread very far [west], to the west side of the [Dead] Sea.
9 Por lo cual lamentaré con lloro a Jazer de la viña de Sibma: embriagarte he de mis lágrimas, o! Jesebón, y Eleale; porque sobre tus cosechas, y sobre tu segada caerá la canción.
So I will weep for Jazer and for the grapevines of Sibmah. I will shed tears for all of you. I will cry because people will no longer shout joyfully, like they usually do when they gather the fruit that ripens in the (summer/hot season) and the other crops that they harvest.
10 Quitado es el gozo y la alegría del campo fértil: en las viñas no cantarán, ni jubilarán: no pisará vino en los lagares el pisador: la canción hice cesar.
People will no longer be glad at harvest time. No one will sing in the vineyards, no one will shout joyfully. No one will tread on grapes [to get grape juice for wine]; there will be nothing to shout about [joyfully].
11 Por tanto mis entrañas sonarán como arpa sobre Moab; y mis intestinos sobre Kir-jareset.
I cry inwardly for Moab; my groaning is like [SIM] [a sad song played on] a harp. I am sad about Kir-Hareseth.
12 Y acaecerá que cuando Moab pareciere que está cansado sobre los altos, entonces vendrá a su santuario a orar, y no podrá.
[The people of] Moab will go and pray at their sacred shrines, but that will not help them. They will cry out to their gods in their temples, [but] none of them will be able to rescue the people.
13 Esta es la palabra que pronunció Jehová sobre Moab desde aquel tiempo.
Yahweh has already spoken those things about Moab.
14 Empero ahora habló Jehová, diciendo: Dentro de tres años, como años de mozo de soldada, será abatida la gloria de Moab con toda su multitud, aunque grande; y sus residuos serán pocos, pequeños, no fuertes.
But now he says that exactly three years from now, he will destroy all the things that [the people of] Moab have been proud of. Even though they have a huge number of people in Moab now, only a few people will remain alive, and they will be weak/helpless.
