Isaías 46
1 Postróse Bel, abatióse Nebo, sus imágenes fueron puestas sobre bestias, y sobre animales de carga, que os llevarán, cargadas de vosotros, carga de cansancio.
Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;
2 Fueron encorvados, fueron abatidos juntamente; y no pudieron escaparse de la carga; y su alma hubo de ir en cautividad.
who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led [away] captive.
3 Oídme, o! casa de Jacob, y todo el resto de la casa de Israel, los que sois traídos de vientre, los que sois llevados de matriz.
Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by me] from the womb, and taught [by me] from infancy, [even] to old age:
4 Y hasta la vejez yo mismo, y hasta las canas yo suportaré: yo hice, yo llevaré, yo suportaré y guardaré.
I am [he]; and until ye shall have grown old, I am [he]: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.
5 ¿A quién me hacéis semejante, y me igualáis, y me comparáis para ser semejante?
To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
6 Sacan oro de su talegón, y pesan plata con balanzas: alquilan un platero para hacer dios de él: humíllanse, y adoran.
They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
7 Echánsele sobre los hombros, llévanle, y asiéntanle en su lugar, y allí se está, y no se mueve de su lugar: dánle voces, y tampoco responde, ni libra de la tribulación.
They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.
8 Acordáos de esto, y tenéd vergüenza: tornád en vosotros, prevaricadores.
Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;
9 Acordáos de las cosas pasadas desde el siglo; porque yo soy Dios; y no hay más dios; y nada hay a mí semejante:
and remember the former things [that were] of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,
10 Que anuncio lo por venir desde el principio; y desde antiguamente lo que aun no era hecho: que digo: Mi consejo permanecerá, y haré todo lo que quisiere:
telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:
11 Que llamo desde el oriente al ave, y de tierra lejana al varón de mi consejo: yo hablé, por eso lo haré venir: lo pensé, hacerlo he también.
calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought [him]; I have created and made [him]; I have brought him, and prospered his way.
12 Oídme, duros de corazón, que estáis lejos de la justicia.
Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:
13 Haré a mí justicia que se acerque, y no se alejará; y mi salud no se detendrá. Y pondré salud en Sión; y mi gloria, en Israel.
I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.
