Isaiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Isaiah 40 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Consuelen, consuelen a mi pueblo, dice su Dios.
1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
2 Hablen con bondad al corazón de Jerusalén y anúncienle que su tiempo de angustia ha terminado y que su castigo se ha cumplido. Ha recibido de la mano del Señor el doble por todos sus pecados.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
3 Una voz clama: Preparen en la tierra desolada el camino del Señor; allanen en la tierra baja un camino para nuestro Dios.
3 The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
4 Que todo valle sea elevado y toda montaña y colina sean rebajadas; que los terrenos ásperos se vuelvan llanos y las cumbres se conviertan en un valle.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
5 Entonces se revelará la gloria del Señor y todos los seres humanos la verán juntos, porque la boca del Señor lo ha dicho.
5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
6 Una voz dice: «¡Grita!». Y yo pregunto: «¿Qué debo gritar?». Todos los seres humanos son hierba y toda su fuerza es como la flor del campo.
6 The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 La hierba se seca y la flor muere cuando el aliento del Señor pasa sobre ella. Sí, el pueblo es hierba.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
8 La hierba se seca y la flor muere, pero la palabra de nuestro Dios es eterna.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
9 Tú que anuncias buenas noticias a Sión, sube a una montaña alta. Tú que anuncias buenas noticias a Jerusalén, levanta la voz con fuerza y sin miedo. Di a las ciudades de Judá: «¡Miren a su Dios!».
9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
10 Miren, el Señor Dios viene con fuerza y gobierna con poder. Los que él ha liberado están con él y los que ha salvado van delante de él.
10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
11 Alimentará a su rebaño como un pastor. Lo reunirá con su brazo, llevará a los corderos junto a su pecho y guiará con cuidado a las ovejas que tienen crías.
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
12 ¿Quién ha medido las aguas en el hueco de su mano y los cielos con sus dedos extendidos? ¿Quién ha reunido el polvo de la tierra en una medida? ¿Quién ha pesado las montañas o puesto las colinas en la balanza?
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 ¿Quién ha guiado al Espíritu del Señor o ha sido su maestro?
13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
14 ¿Quién le dio consejos y le mostró el camino recto? ¿Quién le dio conocimiento y lo guio por el camino de la sabiduría?
14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
15 Miren, las naciones son para él como una gota que cuelga de un balde, como polvo fino en la balanza. Levanta las islas como polvo fino.
15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
16 El Líbano no bastaría para hacer el fuego ni todo su ganado para un holocausto.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 Todas las naciones son como nada ante él, menos que nada, algo sin valor.
17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 ¿A quién consideran semejante a Dios? ¿Con qué lo compararán?
18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 El artesano hace una imagen, el que trabaja el oro la cubre con placas de oro y le hace bandas de plata.
19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
20 El artesano sabio elige para la ofrenda madera de morera que no se ablanda, para fijar en ella la imagen y que no se mueva.
20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
21 ¿No lo saben? ¿No lo han oído? ¿No se les ha anunciado desde el principio? ¿No lo han entendido desde que la tierra fue puesta sobre su base?
21 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 Él está sentado sobre el arco de la tierra y sus habitantes son pequeños como langostas. Él extiende los cielos como un arco y los prepara como una tienda para vivir.
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23 Hace que los gobernantes queden en nada y que los jueces de la tierra no tengan valor.
23 who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
24 Apenas han sido plantados y su semilla puesta en la tierra, apenas han echado raíces, cuando él sopla sobre ellos y se secan. El viento de tormenta se los lleva como hierba seca.
24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25 ¿Quién les parece igual a mí?, dice el Santo.
25 “To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Levanten los ojos y miren: ¿Quién creó estas cosas? El que hace salir a su ejército contado y conoce todos sus nombres. Por su gran fuerza y su poderoso dominio, todos están en su lugar.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
27 ¿Por qué dices, Jacob, por qué hablas así, Israel: «El Señor no mira mi camino y mi Dios no atiende mi causa»?
27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
28 ¿No lo sabes? ¿No lo has oído? El Dios eterno, el Señor, creador de los confines de la tierra, nunca se debilita ni se cansa. Nadie puede descubrir toda su sabiduría.
28 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 Él da fuerza al débil y aumenta el vigor del que no tiene fuerzas.
29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 Aun los jóvenes se debilitan y se cansan, y hasta los mejores llegan al final de sus fuerzas.
30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
31 Pero los que esperan al Señor tendrán nuevas fuerzas. Recibirán alas como águilas; correrán sin cansarse y caminarán sin agotarse.
31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 1:4; Isaiah 51:12; Isaiah 51:3; Zephaniah 3:14–17; Zechariah 1:13
- 2 Zechariah 9:12; Isaiah 61:7; Hosea 2:14; Jeremiah 33:8–9; Revelation 18:6
- 3 Malachi 3:1; Mark 1:2–5; John 1:23; Matthew 3:1–3; Luke 1:16–17
- 4 Luke 3:5; Ezekiel 21:26; Luke 18:14; Isaiah 42:15–16; Isaiah 45:2
- 5 Habakkuk 2:14; Isaiah 52:10; Joel 2:28; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Luke 3:6
- 6 Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Peter 1:24–25; Psalm 102:11; James 1:10–11; Job 14:2
- 7 Job 41:21
- 8 Mark 13:31; Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:25; Psalm 119:89–91; Matthew 5:18
- 9 Isaiah 52:7–8; Ephesians 6:19; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 61:1
- 10 Revelation 22:12; Isaiah 62:11; Revelation 17:14; Matthew 28:18; Isaiah 49:4
- 11 Revelation 7:17; Psalm 23:1–6; Micah 5:4; Ezekiel 34:23; John 10:11–16
- 12 Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:10–12; Psalm 102:25–26; Job 38:4–11; Isaiah 48:13
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:16; Romans 11:34; Job 36:22–23; Job 21:22; Luke 10:22
- 14 Job 21:22; Colossians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 12:4–6; James 1:17
- 15 Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 40:22; Job 34:14–15; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 11:11
- 16 Micah 6:6–7; Psalm 50:9–12; Psalm 40:6; Hebrews 10:5–10
- 17 Psalm 62:9; Daniel 4:34–35; Isaiah 29:7
- 18 Isaiah 46:5; 1 Samuel 2:2; Isaiah 40:25; Exodus 15:11; Acts 17:29
- 19 Jeremiah 10:9; Isaiah 46:6–7; Exodus 32:2–4; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Psalm 115:4–8
- 20 Jeremiah 10:3–4; Isaiah 41:7; Isaiah 46:7; Isaiah 2:8–9; Daniel 5:23
- 21 Isaiah 46:8; Isaiah 48:13; Acts 14:17; Romans 1:19–21; Psalm 50:6
- 22 Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 10:12
- 23 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:21; Jeremiah 25:18–27; Isaiah 34:12; Isaiah 24:21–22
- 24 Isaiah 41:16; Isaiah 17:13; Jeremiah 23:19; Haggai 1:9; Proverbs 1:27
- 25 Isaiah 40:18; Deuteronomy 4:15–18; Deuteronomy 4:33; Deuteronomy 5:8
- 26 Colossians 1:16–17; Jeremiah 32:17–19; Isaiah 48:13; Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 147:4–5
- 27 Isaiah 49:4; Luke 18:7–8; Isaiah 49:14; Job 27:2
- 28 Romans 11:33–34; Psalm 147:5; 1 Timothy 1:17; Isaiah 55:8–9; Philippians 1:6
- 29 Isaiah 41:10; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Colossians 1:11; Zechariah 10:12
- 30 Amos 2:14; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 33:16; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 9:17
- 31 Lamentations 3:25–26; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Psalm 27:13–14; Psalm 103:5; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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