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Isaiah 14 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 Her time is drawing near, and her days will not be prolonged. For the Lord will take pity on Jacob, and he will still choose from Israel, and he will cause them to rest upon their own soil. And the new arrival will be joined to them, and he will adhere to the house of Jacob.
1 PORQUE Jehová tendrá piedad de Jacob, y todavía escogerá á Israel, y les hará reposar en su tierra: y á ellos se unirán extranjeros, y allegaránse á la familia de Jacob.
2 And the people will take them, and lead them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them, in the land of the Lord, as men and women servants. And they will take captive those who had taken them captive. And they will subjugate their oppressors.
2 Y los tomarán los pueblos, y traeránlos á su lugar: y la casa de Israel los poseerá por siervos y criadas en la tierra de Jehová: y cautivarán á los que los cautivaron, y señorearán á los que los oprimieron.
3 And this shall be in that day: when God will have given you rest from your labor, and from your oppression, and from the difficult servitude under which you served before,
3 Y será en el día que Jehová te diere reposo de tu trabajo, y de tu temor, y de la dura servidumbre en que te hicieron servir,
4 you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?
4 Que levantarás esta parábola sobre el rey de Babilonia, y dirás: ¡Cómo paró el exactor, [cómo] cesó la ciudad codiciosa del oro!
5 The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,
5 Quebrantó Jehová el bastón de los impíos, el cetro de los señores;
6 which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.
6 Al que con ira hería los pueblos de llaga permanente, el cual se enseñoreaba de las gentes con furor, y las perseguía con crueldad.
7 All the earth has become quiet and still; it has been gladdened and has rejoiced.
7 Descansó, sosegó toda la tierra: cantaron alabanza.
8 The evergreens, too, have rejoiced over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying: ‘Since you have slept, no one has ascended who would cut us down.’
8 Aun las hayas se holgaron de ti, y los cedros del Líbano, [diciendo]: Desde que tú pereciste, no ha subido cortador contra nosotros.
9 Hell below was stirred up to meet you at your advent; it has awakened the giants for you. All the leaders of the earth have risen from their thrones, all the leaders among the nations.”
9 El infierno abajo se espantó de ti; te despertó muertos que en tu venida saliesen á recibirte, hizo levantar de sus sillas á todos los príncipes de la tierra, á todos los reyes de las naciones.
10 Everyone will respond and will say to you: “Now you are wounded, just as we were; you have become like us.
10 Todos ellos darán voces, y te dirán: ¿Tú también enfermaste como nosotros, [y] como nosotros fuiste?
11 Your arrogance has been dragged down to Hell. Your body has fallen dead. The moths will be strewn beneath you, and the worms will be your covering.
11 Descendió al sepulcro tu soberbia, y el sonido de tus vihuelas: gusanos serán tu cama, y gusanos te cubrirán.
12 How is it that you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who used to rise like the sun? How is it that you have fallen to the earth, you who wounded the peoples?
12 ¡Cómo caiste del cielo, oh Lucero, hijo de la mañana! Cortado fuiste por tierra, tú que debilitabas las gentes.
13 And you said in your heart: ‘I will climb up to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will be enthroned upon the mountain of the covenant, on the northern parts.
13 Tú que decías en tu corazón: Subiré al cielo, en lo alto junto á las estrellas de Dios ensalzaré mi solio, y en el monte del testimonio me sentaré, á los lados del aquilón;
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’
14 Sobre las alturas de las nubes subiré, y seré semejante al Altísimo.
15 Yet truly, you shall be dragged down to Hell, into the depths of the pit.
15 Mas tú derribado eres en el sepulcro, á los lados de la huesa.
16 Those who see you, will lean toward you, and will gaze upon you, saying: ‘Could this be the man who disturbed the earth, who shook kingdoms,
16 Inclinarse han hacia ti los que te vieren, te considerarán [diciendo]: ¿Es este aquel varón que hacía temblar la tierra, que trastornaba los reinos;
17 who made the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who would not even open a prison for his prisoners?’ ”
17 Que puso el mundo como un desierto, que asoló sus ciudades; que á sus presos nunca abrió la cárcel?
18 All the kings of the nations throughout the whole world have slept in glory, each man in his own house.
18 Todos los reyes de las gentes, todos ellos yacen con honra cada uno en su casa.
19 But you have been rejected from your grave, like a useless polluted plant, and you have been bound up with those who were slain by the sword, and who descended to the bottom of the pit, like a rotting carcass.
19 Mas tú echado eres de tu sepulcro como tronco abominable, [como] vestido de muertos pasados á cuchillo, que descendieron al fondo de la sepultura; como cuerpo muerto hollado.
20 You will not be associated with them, even in the grave. For you have destroyed your own land; you have slain your own people. The offspring of the wicked ones will not be called upon for eternity.
20 No serás contado con ellos en la sepultura: porque tú destruiste tu tierra, mataste tu pueblo. No será nombrada para siempre la simiente de los malignos.
21 Prepare his sons for the slaughter, according to the iniquity of their fathers. They will not rise up, nor inherit the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
21 Aparejad sus hijos para el matadero por la maldad de sus padres: no se levanten, ni posean la tierra, é hinchan la haz del mundo de ciudades.
22 But I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts. And I will perish the name of Babylon and its remnants: both the plant and its progeny, says the Lord.
22 Porque yo me levantaré sobre ellos, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y raeré de Babilonia el nombre y las reliquias, hijo y nieto, dice Jehová.
23 And I will appoint it as a possession for the hedgehog, with swamps of water. And I will sweep it out and wear it away with a brush, says the Lord of hosts.
23 Y convertiréla en posesión de erizos, y en lagunas de agua; y la barreré con escobas de destrucción, dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying: Surely, just as I have considered it, so shall it be, and in the same manner as I have drawn it through my mind,
24 Jehová de los ejércitos juró, diciendo: Ciertamente se hará de la manera que lo he pensado, y será confirmado como lo he determinado:
25 so shall it occur. So shall I crush the Assyrian in my land, and I will trample him upon my mountains, and his yoke will be taken away from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulder.
25 Que quebrantaré al Asirio en mi tierra, y en mis montes lo hollaré; y su yugo será apartado de ellos, y su carga será quitada de su hombro.
26 This is the plan that I have decided, concerning the entire earth, and this is the hand which is extended over all the nations.
26 Este [es] el consejo que está acordado sobre toda la tierra; y ésta, la mano extendida sobre todas las gentes.
27 For the Lord of hosts has decreed it, and who is able to weaken it? And his hand is extended, so who can avert it?
27 Porque Jehová de los ejércitos ha determinado: ¿y quién invalidará? Y su mano extendida, ¿quién la hará tornar?
28 In the year in which king Ahaz died, this burden was given:
28 En el año que murió el rey Achâz fué esta carga:
29 You should not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod of him who struck you has been crushed. For from the root of the serpent will go forth a king snake, and his offspring will engulf that which flies.
29 No te alegres tú, Filistea toda, por haberse quebrado la vara del que te hería; porque de la raíz de la culebra saldrá basilisco, y su fruto, ceraste volador.
30 And the firstborn of the poor will be pastured, and the poor will rest in faithfulness. And I will cause your root to pass away by famine, and I will put to death your remnant.
30 Y los primogénitos de los pobres serán apacentados, y los menesterosos se acostarán seguramente: mas yo haré morir de hambre tu raíz, y mataré tus reliquias.
31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! All of Philistia has been prostrated. For a smoke will arrive from the north, and there is no one who will escape his army.
31 Aulla, oh puerta; clama, oh ciudad; disuelta estás toda tú, Filistea: porque humo vendrá de aquilón, no quedará uno solo en sus asambleas.
32 And what will be the response to this news among the nations? It will be that the Lord has established Zion, and that the poor of his people will hope in him.
32 ¿Y qué se responderá á los mensajeros de la gentilidad? Que Jehová fundó á Sión, y que á ella se acogerán los afligidos de su pueblo.
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 102:13; Zechariah 1:17; Ephesians 2:12–19; Isaiah 54:7–8; Zechariah 8:22–23
- 2 Isaiah 61:5; Isaiah 60:14; Jeremiah 30:16; Daniel 7:25–27; Isaiah 60:9–12
- 3 Jeremiah 30:10; Ezra 9:8–9; Isaiah 32:18; Jeremiah 46:27–28; Zechariah 8:8
- 4 Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:22–23; Revelation 18:16; Revelation 18:5–8; Revelation 16:5–6
- 5 Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 14:29; Jeremiah 48:15–17; Isaiah 10:5
- 6 Daniel 7:19–21; Jeremiah 50:31; Revelation 17:16–17; James 2:13; Revelation 18:8–10
- 7 Psalm 126:1–3; Psalm 96:11–13; Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 98:7–9; Proverbs 11:10
- 8 Ezekiel 31:16; Isaiah 55:12–13; Zechariah 11:2
- 9 Ezekiel 32:21–32; Jeremiah 50:8; Proverbs 15:24
- 10 Psalm 82:6–7; Ezekiel 32:21; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Psalm 49:6–14; Psalm 49:20
- 11 Daniel 5:25–30; Ezekiel 32:19–20; Isaiah 21:4–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 21:11–15
- 12 Ezekiel 28:13–17; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:7–10; Revelation 8:10; Revelation 22:16
- 13 Daniel 8:10–12; Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:12–16; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Ezekiel 29:3
- 14 Isaiah 47:8; Genesis 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Isaiah 37:23–24
- 15 Matthew 11:23; Acts 12:22–23; Ezekiel 32:23; Revelation 19:20; Luke 10:15
- 16 Jeremiah 50:23; Psalm 58:10–11; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Isaiah 14:4–5; Psalm 52:7
- 17 Joel 2:3; Ezekiel 6:14; Isaiah 58:6; Isaiah 13:19–22; Ezra 1:2–4
- 18 2 Chronicles 24:16; Ezekiel 32:18–32; 2 Chronicles 24:25; Job 30:23; Isaiah 22:16
- 19 Jeremiah 41:9; Jeremiah 41:7; 2 Kings 9:34–36; Jeremiah 22:19; 1 Kings 21:19
- 20 Psalm 21:10; Job 18:19; Psalm 37:28; Psalm 109:13; Job 18:16
- 21 Matthew 23:35; Leviticus 26:39; Habakkuk 2:8–12; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 27:6
- 22 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 50:29–35; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 43:14; Jeremiah 51:62–64
- 23 Zephaniah 2:14; Isaiah 13:21–22; 1 Kings 14:10; Isaiah 34:11–15; Revelation 14:8
- 24 Proverbs 19:21; Job 23:13; Isaiah 46:10–11; Jeremiah 29:11; Acts 4:28
- 25 Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 37:36–38; Nahum 1:13; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:32–34
- 26 Isaiah 23:9; Zephaniah 3:6–8; Exodus 15:12; Isaiah 5:25
- 27 Isaiah 43:13; Job 23:13; 2 Chronicles 20:6; Proverbs 21:30; Job 9:12
- 28 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 28:27; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 6:1
- 29 Isaiah 11:8; 2 Chronicles 26:6; Isaiah 30:6; 2 Chronicles 28:18; Hosea 9:1
- 30 Isaiah 7:21–22; Zephaniah 2:4–7; Isaiah 8:21; Zechariah 9:5–7; Isaiah 30:23–24
- 31 Jeremiah 1:14; Isaiah 20:1; Jeremiah 25:16–20; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 13:6
- 32 Psalm 87:5; Psalm 102:16; Psalm 87:1; James 2:5; Zephaniah 3:12
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… loved and feared, not for Thy sake, but in Thy stead, by which means, being made like unto him, he may have them as his, not in harmony of love, but in the fellowship of punishment; who aspired to exalt his throne in the north, that dark and cold they might serve him, imitating Thee in perverse and distorted ways.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Such an one was he that saith, "I will exalt my throne above the Heavens." and did not account himself to be worthy so much as of the title of the apostles, after so many and so great deeds of goodness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And how do they answer the prophetic proofs,--either what Isaiah says when he represents the devil under the person of the king of Babylon, "How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" or what Ezekiel says, "Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering," where it is meant that he was …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For example, what is said in Isaiah, "How he is fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!" and the other statements of the context which, under the figure of the king of Babylon, are made about the same person, are of course to be understood of the devil; and yet the statement which is made in the same place, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)