Isaías 17
1 Carga de Damasco. He aquí que Damasco dejó de ser ciudad, y será montón de ruina.
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
2 Las ciudades de Aroer desamparadas, en majadas se tornarán: dormirán allí, y no habrá quien los espante.
The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
3 Y cesará el socorro de Efraím, y el reino de Damasco; y lo que quedare de Siria, será como la gloria de los hijos de Israel, dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
4 Y será que en aquel tiempo la gloria de Jacob se adelgazará, y la grosura de su carne se enflaquecerá.
“At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
5 Y será como el segador que coge la mies, y con su brazo siega las espigas: será también como el que coge espigas en el valle de Refaim.
The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
6 Y quedarán en él rebuscos, como cuando sacuden el aceituno, que quedan allí dos o tres granos en la punta del ramo, cuatro o cinco en sus ramas fructíferas, dice Jehová Dios de Israel.
Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
7 En aquel día mirará el hombre a su Hacedor, y sus ojos contemplarán al Santo de Israel.
[Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
8 Y no mirará a los altares que hicieron sus manos, ni mirará a lo que hicieron sus dedos, ni a los bosques, ni a las imágenes del sol.
You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
9 En aquel día las ciudades de su fortaleza serán como los frutos que quedan en los pimpollos, y en las ramas, como lo que dejaron ante la faz de los hijos de Israel; y será asolamiento.
The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
10 Porque te olvidaste del Dios de tu salud, y no te acordaste de la Roca de tu fortaleza. Por tanto plantarás plantas hermosas, y sembrarás sarmiento extraño.
[That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
11 El día que las plantares, las harás crecer; y harás que tu simiente brote de mañana: mas en el día del coger huirá la cosecha, y será dolor desesperado.
[But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
12 ¡Ay! multitud de muchos pueblos, que sonarán, como sonido de la mar; y murmullo de naciones hará alboroto, como murmullo de muchas aguas.
Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
13 Pueblos harán ruido a manera de ruido de grandes aguas: mas reprenderlo ha, y huirá lejos: será ahuyentado como el tamo de los montes delante del viento, y como el cardo delante del torbellino.
But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
14 Al tiempo de la tarde, he aquí, turbación: antes que la mañana venga, ella no será. Esta es la parte de los que nos huellan, y la suerte de los que nos saquean.
And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
