Isaías 1
1 Visión de Isaías hijo de Amoz, la cual vio sobre Judá y Jerusalén, en días de Uzías, Jotam, Acaz y Ezequías, reyes de Judá.
This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Oíd, cielos, y escucha tú, tierra; porque habla el SEÑOR: Crié hijos, y los engrandecí, y ellos se rebelaron contra mí.
Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
3 El buey conoce a su dueño, y el asno el pesebre de sus señores; Israel no conoce, mi pueblo no tiene entendimiento.
An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
4 ¡Oh gente pecadora, pueblo cargado de maldad, generación de malignos, hijos corruptos! Dejaron al SEÑOR, provocaron a ira al Santo de Israel; se tornaron atrás.
What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
5 ¿Para qué os castigaré aún? Todavía os rebelaréis. Toda cabeza está enferma, y todo corazón doliente.
Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
6 Desde la planta del pie hasta la cabeza no hay en él cosa entera, sino herida, hinchazón y podrida llaga; no son curadas, ni vendadas, ni suavizadas con aceite.
You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.
7 Vuestra tierra está destruida, vuestras ciudades puestas a fuego, vuestra tierra delante de vosotros comida de extranjeros, y asolada como asolamiento de extraños.
Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
8 Y queda la hija de Sion como choza en viña, y como cabaña en melonar, como ciudad asolada.
The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.
9 Si el SEÑOR de los ejércitos no hubiera hecho que nos quedase un remanente pequeño, como Sodoma fuéramos, y semejantes a Gomorra.
If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
10 Príncipes de Sodoma, oíd la palabra del SEÑOR; escuchad la ley de nuestro Dios, pueblo de Gomorra.
Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 ¿Para qué me sirve la multitud de vuestros sacrificios? dirá el SEÑOR. Hastiado estoy de holocaustos de carneros, y de sebo de animales gordos; no quiero sangre de bueyes, ni de ovejas, ni de machos cabríos.
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
12 ¿Quién demandó esto de vuestras manos, cuando vinieseis a ver mi rostro, a hollar mis atrios?
When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?
13 No me traigáis más presente vano; el perfume me es abominación; luna nueva y sábado, el convocar asambleas, no las puedo sufrir; iniquidad y solemnidad.
Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
14 Vuestras lunas nuevas y vuestras fiestas solemnes las tiene aborrecidas mi alma: me han sido carga; cansado estoy de llevarlas.
I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
15 Cuando extendiereis vuestras manos, yo esconderé de vosotros mis ojos; asimismo cuando multiplicáreis la oración, yo no oiré; llenas están de sangre vuestras manos.
When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
16 Lavaos, y limpiaos; quitad la iniquidad de vuestras obras de delante de mis ojos; dejad de hacer lo malo;
Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
17 aprended a hacer el bien. Buscad juicio. Restituid al agraviado. Oíd en derecho al huérfano. Amparad a la viuda.
Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
18 Venid luego, dirá el SEÑOR, y estemos a cuenta: si vuestros pecados fueren como la grana, como la nieve serán emblanquecidos; si fueren rojos como el carmesí, serán tornados como la lana.
Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
19 Si quisiereis, y oyereis, comeréis el bien de la tierra;
If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
20 si no quisiereis, y fuereis rebeldes, seréis consumidos a espada, porque la boca del SEÑOR lo ha dicho.
But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
21 ¿Cómo te has tornado ramera, oh ciudad fiel? Llena estuvo de juicio, en ella habitó la equidad; mas ahora, los homicidas.
The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
22 Tu plata se ha tornado en escorias, tu vino está mezclado con agua.
Your silver has become worthless waste; you wine has been watered down.
23 Tus príncipes, prevaricadores y compañeros de ladrones; todos aman las dádivas, y van tras las recompensas; no oyen en juicio al huérfano, ni llega a ellos la causa de la viuda.
Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
24 Por tanto, dice el Señor DIOS de los ejércitos, el Fuerte de Israel: Ea, tomaré satisfacción de mis enemigos, me vengaré de mis adversarios;
So this is what the Lord says, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will take satisfaction in punishing my enemies, by paying back those who hate me!
25 y volveré mi mano sobre ti, y limpiaré hasta lo más puro tus escorias, y quitaré todo tu estaño;
I will turn against you. I will refine you in a furnace, removing all impurities.
26 y restituiré tus jueces como al principio, y tus consejeros como de primero; entonces te llamarán Ciudad de justicia, Ciudad fiel.
I will give you good leaders as you used to have before, wise counselors as you had in the beginning. After that you will once again be called the City of Integrity, the Faithful City.
27 Sion con juicio será rescatada, y los convertidos de ella con justicia.
Zion will be rescued by justice, those who repent by doing right.
28 Mas los rebeldes y pecadores a una serán quebrantados; y los que dejaron al SEÑOR serán consumidos.
But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
29 Entonces os avergonzarán los árboles que amasteis, y os afrentarán los bosques que escogisteis.
You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
30 Porque seréis como el olmo que se le cae la hoja, y como huerto al que le faltan las aguas.
As a result you will become like an oak whose leaves have withered, a dried-out garden that has no water.
31 Y el ídolo fuerte será como estopa, y el que lo hizo como centella; y ambos serán encendidos juntamente, y no habrá quien apague.
Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.
