Isaías 27
1 En aquel día el SEÑOR visitará con su espada dura, grande y fuerte, sobre el leviatán, serpiente huidora, y sobre el leviatán serpiente retuerta; y matará al dragón que está en el mar.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 En aquel día cantad de la viña del vino rojo.
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Yo, el SEÑOR, la guardo, cada momento la regaré; la guardaré de noche y de día, para que el enemigo no la visite.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 No hay en mí enojo. ¿Quién pondrá contra mí en batalla espinas y cardos? Yo los hollaré, los quemaré juntamente.
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 ¿O quién forzará mi fortaleza? Haga conmigo paz, sí, haga paz conmigo.
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Días vendrán cuando Jacob echará raíces, florecerá y echará renuevos Israel, y la faz del mundo se llenará de fruto.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 ¿Acaso ha sido herido como quien lo hirió? ¿O ha sido muerto como los que lo mataron?
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 Con medida la castigarás en sus vástagos. El reprime su recio viento en el día del aire solano.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 Por tanto, de esta manera pues, será purgada la iniquidad de Jacob; y éste será todo el fruto, la remoción de su pecado; cuando tornare todas las piedras del altar, como piedras de cal desmenuzadas, para que no se levanten los bosques, ni las imágenes del sol.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 De otra manera la ciudad fortalecida será asolada; la morada será desamparada, y dejada como un desierto; allí se apacentará el becerro, allí tendrá su majada, y acabará sus ramas.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 Cuando sus ramas se secaren, serán quebradas, mujeres vendrán a encenderla; porque aquél no es pueblo de entendimiento. Por tanto su Hacedor no tendrá de él misericordia, ni se compadecerá de él el que lo formó.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 Y acontecerá en aquel día, que herirá el SEÑOR desde el álveo del río Eufrates hasta el río de Egipto, y vosotros, hijos de Israel, seréis ayuntados uno a uno.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 Acontecerá también en aquel día, que habrá tañido con gran voz de trompeta; y vendrán los que habían sido esparcidos en la tierra de Asiria, y los que habían sido echados en tierra de Egipto, y adorarán al SEÑOR en el Monte santo, en Jerusalén.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
