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1 And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine.
1 Y AHORA, así dice Jehová Criador tuyo, oh Jacob, y Formador tuyo, oh Israel: No temas, porque yo te redimí; te puse nombre, mío eres tú.
1 But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you.
2 Cuando pasares por las aguas, yo seré contigo; y por los ríos, no te anegarán. Cuando pasares por el fuego, no te quemarás, ni la llama arderá en ti.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have presented Egypt as your atonement, Ethiopia and Seba on your behalf.
3 Porque yo Jehová Dios tuyo, el Santo de Israel, [soy] tu Salvador: á Egipto he dado por tu rescate, á Etiopía y á Seba por ti.
3 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
4 Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life.
4 Porque en mis ojos fuiste de grande estima, fuiste honorable, y yo te amé: daré pues hombres por ti, y naciones por tu alma.
4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
5 Fear not, for I am with you. I will lead your offspring from the East, and I will gather you from the West.
5 No temas, porque yo soy contigo; del oriente traeré tu generación, y del occidente te recogeré.
5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the North, “Release him,” and to the South, “Do not turn him away.” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
6 Diré al aquilón: Da acá; y al mediodía: No detengas: trae de lejos mis hijos, y mis hijas de los términos de la tierra,
6 I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
7 And each one who calls upon my name, I have created for my glory. I have formed him, and I have made him.
7 Todos los llamados de mi nombre; para gloria mía los críe, los formé y los hice.
7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”
8 Lead forth the people who are blind and have eyes, who are deaf and have ears.
8 Sacad al pueblo ciego que tiene ojos, y á los sordos que tienen oídos.
8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
9 All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.”
9 Congréguense á una todas las gentes, y júntense todos los pueblos: ¿quién de ellos hay que nos dé nuevas de esto, y que nos haga oir las cosas primeras? Presenten sus testigos, y justifíquense; oigan, y digan: Verdad.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.
10 Vosotros sois mis testigos, dice Jehová, y mi siervo que yo escogí; para que me conozcáis y creáis, y entendáis que yo mismo soy; antes de mí no fué formado Dios, ni lo será después de mí.
10 “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.
11 I am. I am the Lord. And there is no savior apart from me.
11 Yo, yo Jehová; y fuera de mí no hay quien salve.
11 I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.
12 I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.
12 Yo anuncié, y salvé, é hice oir, y no hubo entre vosotros extraño. Vosotros pues sois mis testigos, dice Jehová, que yo soy Dios.
12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.
13 And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside?
13 Aun antes que hubiera día, yo era; y no hay quien de mi mano libre: si yo hiciere, ¿quién lo estorbará?
13 Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.
14 Así dice Jehová, Redentor vuestro, el Santo de Israel: Por vosotros envié á Babilonia, é hice descender fugitivos todos ellos, y clamor de Caldeos en las naves.
14 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
15 Yo Jehová, Santo vuestro, Criador de Israel, vuestro Rey.
15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
16 Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters,
16 Así dice Jehová, el que da camino en la mar, y senda en las aguas impetuosas;
16 Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,
17 who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished.
17 El que saca carro y caballo, ejército y fuerza; caen juntamente para no levantarse; quedan extinguidos, como pábilo quedan apagados.
17 who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:
18 You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.
18 No os acordéis de las cosas pasadas, ni traigáis á memoria las cosas antiguas.
18 “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
19 He aquí que yo hago cosa nueva: presto saldrá á luz: ¿no la sabréis? Otra vez pondré camino en el desierto, y ríos en la soledad.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect.
20 La bestia del campo me honrará, los chacales, y los pollos del avestruz: porque daré aguas en el desierto, ríos en la soledad, para que beba mi pueblo, mi escogido.
20 The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21 This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.
21 Este pueblo crié para mí; mis alabanzas publicará.
21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.
22 Y no me invocaste á mí, oh Jacob; antes, de mí te cansaste, oh Israel.
22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
23 You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.
23 No me trajiste á mí los animales de tus holocaustos, ni á mí me honraste con tus sacrificios: no te hice servir con presente, ni te hice fatigar con perfume.
23 You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
24 No compraste para mí caña [aromática] por dinero, ni me saciaste con la grosura de tus sacrificios; antes me hiciste servir en tus pecados, me has fatigado con tus maldades.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.
25 Yo, yo soy el que borro tus rebeliones por amor de mí; y no me acordaré de tus pecados.
25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
26 Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.
26 Hazme acordar, entremos en juicio juntamente; relata tú para abonarte.
26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
27 Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.
27 Tu primer padre pecó, y tus enseñadores prevaricaron contra mí.
27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.
28 Por tanto, yo profané los príncipes del santuario, y puse por anatema á Jacob, y por oprobio á Israel.
28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 100:3; Isaiah 43:7; Zechariah 13:9; Isaiah 54:4–5; Titus 2:14
- 2 Isaiah 41:10; Joshua 1:9; Psalm 66:12; Psalm 23:4; Daniel 3:25–27
- 3 Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 45:15; Isaiah 49:26; Exodus 20:2; 2 Chronicles 14:9–14
- 4 Deuteronomy 7:6–8; 1 Peter 2:9; Jeremiah 31:3; Revelation 3:9; Genesis 12:2
- 5 Deuteronomy 30:3; Luke 13:29; Isaiah 49:12; Ezekiel 39:25–29; Isaiah 60:1–11
- 6 2 Corinthians 6:17–18; Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 3:18–19; Hosea 1:10–11; Romans 9:7–8
- 7 Ephesians 2:10; Isaiah 43:21; Ephesians 1:12; 1 Peter 2:9; Romans 9:23
- 8 Isaiah 6:9; Ezekiel 12:2; Isaiah 42:18–20; Deuteronomy 29:2–4; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6
- 9 Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:7–9; Isaiah 41:21–26; Isaiah 41:1; Psalm 50:1
- 10 Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 45:6; Isaiah 46:8–9; Isaiah 43:12; Isaiah 40:21–22
- 11 Hosea 13:4; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 43:3; Isaiah 45:21–22; Revelation 7:10–12
- 12 Deuteronomy 32:12; Isaiah 44:8; Psalm 81:9–10; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 46:9–10
- 13 Isaiah 14:27; Isaiah 46:10; Psalm 90:2; Hebrews 13:8; John 8:58
- 14 Isaiah 44:6; Jeremiah 51:24; Isaiah 23:13; Isaiah 44:24–45:5; Revelation 18:11–21
- 15 Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 48:17; Revelation 3:7; Jeremiah 51:5; Psalm 74:12
- 16 Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 43:2; Psalm 77:19; Jeremiah 31:35; Psalm 106:9
- 17 Isaiah 1:31; Exodus 14:4–9; Psalm 118:12; Revelation 20:8–9; Psalm 76:5–6
- 18 Isaiah 65:17; 2 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Chronicles 16:12; Deuteronomy 8:2; Jeremiah 16:14–15
- 19 Isaiah 48:6; Isaiah 42:9; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Revelation 21:5; Isaiah 41:18
- 20 Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 48:21; Isaiah 49:10; Revelation 17:14; 1 Peter 2:9
- 21 1 Peter 2:9; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 102:18; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; Luke 1:74–75
- 22 Micah 6:3; Malachi 3:14; Malachi 1:13; Jeremiah 10:25; James 4:2–3
- 23 Amos 5:25; Zechariah 7:5–6; Malachi 1:6–8; Leviticus 2:1; Jeremiah 7:22
- 24 Isaiah 7:13; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 1:14; Ezekiel 6:9; Isaiah 63:10
- 25 Hebrews 8:12; Micah 7:18–19; Hebrews 10:17; Jeremiah 31:34; Isaiah 1:18
- 26 Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 43:9; Romans 8:33; Psalm 141:2; Jeremiah 2:21–35
- 27 Jeremiah 5:31; Isaiah 28:7; Ezekiel 16:3; Ezekiel 22:25–28; Lamentations 4:13–14
- 28 Jeremiah 24:9; Isaiah 65:15; Zechariah 8:13; Deuteronomy 28:15–20; 1 Thessalonians 2:16
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… is, the Father bearing witness to the Son, and the Son announcing the Father.--As also Esaias says, "I too am witness," he declares, "saith the Lord God, and the Son whom I have chosen, that ye may know, and believe, and understand that I am."
Therefore doth God appoint righteousness as a reward for such repentance, saying, "Be thou first to tell thy sins, that thou mayest be justified." For it is not, it is not indeed, a small step towards amendment, to lay together all our sins, and to be continually revolving and reckoning them up with their particulars.
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… Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring My sons from far, and My daughters from the ends of the earth; all, as many as have been called in My name: for in My glory I have prepared, and formed, and made him." Inasmuch as then, "wheresoever the carcase is, there shall also the eagles be gathered together," …
… Me in sacrifices, nor in [the matter of] frankincense hast thou done anything laboriously; neither hast thou bought for Me incense with money, nor have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast stood before Me in thy sins and in thine iniquities." He says, therefore, "Upon this man will I look, even upon him that is humble, …