Isaiah 13 Free Bible Version
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1 This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
1 CARGA de Babilonia, que vió Isaías, hijo de Amoz.
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Set up a banner on a bare hilltop; shout out to them; wave your hand to encourage them to enter the palaces of princes.
2 Levantad bandera sobre un alto monte; alzad la voz á ellos, alzad la mano, para que entren por puertas de príncipes.
2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have ordered the ones I have chosen to attack; I have called my warriors to execute my furious judgment and to celebrate my triumph.
3 Yo mandé á mis santificados, asimismo llamé á mis valientes para mi ira, á los que se alegran con mi gloria.
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4 A noise comes from the mountains, sounding like that of a huge crowd! It's the roaring sound from the kingdoms, from nations gathering together! The Lord Almighty is calling up an army for war.
4 Murmullo de multitud en los montes, como de mucho pueblo; murmullo de ruido de reinos, de gentes reunidas: Jehová de los ejércitos ordena las tropas de la batalla.
4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
5 They are coming from distant lands, from beyond the far horizons—the Lord and the weapons of his fury—coming to destroy the whole country.
5 Vienen de lejana tierra, de lo postrero de los cielos, Jehová y los instrumentos de su furor, para destruir toda la tierra.
5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl in fear, for the day of the Lord is approaching—the time when the Almighty destroys.
6 Aullad, porque cerca está el día de Jehová; vendrá como asolamiento del Todopoderoso.
6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Everyone's hands will fall limp, and everyone will lose their minds in panic.
7 Por tanto, se enervarán todas la manos, y desleiráse todo corazón de hombre:
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8 They will be terrified; pain and anguish will seize them; they will suffer like a woman giving birth. They will look in shock at each other, their faces burning in fear.
8 Y se llenarán de terror; angustias y dolores los comprenderán; tendrán dolores como mujer de parto; pasmaráse cada cual [al mirar] á su compañero; sus rostros, rostros de llamas.
8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9 Look! The day of the Lord is coming—cruel, with fury and fierce anger—to devastate the land and to wipe out its sinners.
9 He aquí el día de Jehová viene, crudo, y de saña y ardor de ira, para tornar la tierra en soledad, y raer de ella sus pecadores.
9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10 The stars in the constellations of heaven above will not shine. When the sun rises it will stay dark. The moon will give no light.
10 Por lo cual las estrellas de los cielos y sus luceros no derramarán su lumbre; y el sol se oscurecerá en naciendo, y la luna no echará su resplandor.
10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their sin, says the Lord. I will put an end to the conceit of the arrogant, and I will humiliate tyrants and their pride.
11 Y visitaré la maldad sobre el mundo, y sobre los impíos su iniquidad; y haré que cese la arrogancia de los soberbios, y abatiré la altivez de los fuertes.
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
12 I will make people scarcer than pure gold, rarer than the gold of Ophir.
12 Haré más precioso que el oro fino al varón, y más que el oro de Ophir al hombre.
12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
13 So I will shake the heavens and make the earth jump out of its place because of the fury of the Lord Almighty, at the time when his anger burns.
13 Porque haré estremecer los cielos, y la tierra se moverá de su lugar, en la indignación de Jehová de los ejércitos, y en el día de la ira de su furor.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 Like a gazelle being hunted, or like sheep without a shepherd, the Babylonians will return to their own people, they will run away to their own land.
14 Y será que como corza amontada, y como oveja sin pastor, cada cual mirará hacia su pueblo, y cada uno huirá á su tierra.
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15 Anyone who is captured will be stabbed to death; anyone who is caught will be killed by the sword.
15 Cualquiera que fuere hallado, será alanceado; y cualquiera que [á ellos] se juntare, caerá á cuchillo.
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their little children will be dashed to pieces as they watch, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.
16 Sus niños serán estrellados delante de ellos; sus casas serán saqueadas, y forzadas sus mujeres.
16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17 I'm going to get the Medes to attack them, people who don't care about silver or gold.
17 He aquí que yo despierto contra ellos á los Medos, que no curarán de la plata, ni codiciarán oro.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Their bows will slaughter their young men; they will show no mercy to babies; they will have no pity on children.
18 Y con arcos tirarán á los niños, y no tendrán misericordia de fruto de vientre, ni su ojo perdonará á hijos.
18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
19 Babylon, the most marvelous city of any kingdom, the greatest pride of the Babylonian people, will be demolished by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
19 Y Babilonia, hermosura de reinos y ornamento de la grandeza de los Caldeos, será como Sodoma y Gomorra, á las que trastornó Dios.
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 No one will ever live in Babylon again. It will be deserted—no desert nomad will set up a tent there, no shepherd will bring a flock to rest there.
20 Nunca más será habitada, ni se morará en ella de generación en generación; ni hincará allí tienda el Arabe, ni pastores tendrán allí majada:
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 Only desert animals will make their homes there, and the ruined houses will be inhabited by wild dogs. Owls will live there, and wild goats will leap around.
21 Sino que dormirán allí bestias fieras, y sus casas se llenarán de hurones, allí habitarán hijas del buho, y allí saltarán peludos.
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her lavish palaces. Babylon's time is coming soon—they will not last much longer.
22 Y en sus palacios gritarán gatos cervales, y chacales en sus casas de deleite: y abocado está á venir su tiempo, y sus días no se alargarán.
22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 47:1–15; Jeremiah 50:1–51:64; Isaiah 1:1; Daniel 5:28; Revelation 17:1–18
- 2 Jeremiah 51:58; Isaiah 5:26; Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:25; Isaiah 45:1–3
- 3 Joel 3:11; Jeremiah 51:20–24; Revelation 17:12–18; Revelation 18:20–19:7; Ezra 7:12–26
- 4 Joel 3:14; Joel 2:25; Ezekiel 38:3–23; Revelation 19:11–21; Joel 2:1–11
- 5 Matthew 24:31; Jeremiah 50:9; Jeremiah 51:20–46; Jeremiah 50:3; Isaiah 5:26
- 6 Joel 1:15; Amos 5:18; Ezekiel 30:2–3; Zephaniah 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
- 7 Ezekiel 21:7; Nahum 2:10; Nahum 1:6; Ezekiel 7:17; Isaiah 19:1
- 8 Nahum 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 21:3–4; John 16:21
- 9 Malachi 4:1; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 13:15–18; Isaiah 13:6; Jeremiah 51:35–58
- 10 Joel 2:31; Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; Ezekiel 32:7–8; Joel 3:15
- 11 Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 5:15; Jeremiah 50:29–32; Daniel 5:22–23; Isaiah 3:11
- 12 Isaiah 4:1; Isaiah 24:6; Psalm 137:9; Job 28:16; Isaiah 13:15–18
- 13 Hebrews 12:26–27; Joel 3:16; Matthew 24:29; Nahum 1:4–6; Haggai 2:6–7
- 14 Jeremiah 50:16; 1 Kings 22:17; 1 Kings 22:36; Jeremiah 51:9; Isaiah 17:13
- 15 Jeremiah 50:25; Jeremiah 51:3–4; Jeremiah 50:27; Isaiah 47:9–14; Jeremiah 50:35–42
- 16 Hosea 10:14; Nahum 3:10; Psalm 137:8–9; Isaiah 13:18; Zechariah 14:2
- 17 Daniel 5:28–31; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 50:9; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 51:27–28
- 18 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13:16; Ezekiel 9:10
- 19 Daniel 4:30; Jeremiah 50:40; Zephaniah 2:9; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23
- 20 Jeremiah 51:43; Isaiah 14:23; Jeremiah 50:45; 2 Chronicles 17:11; Jeremiah 50:3
- 21 Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 34:11–15
- 22 Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 25:2; Jeremiah 51:33; Deuteronomy 32:35; Habakkuk 2:3
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… shall be no men in them and the land shall be left desolate." "For, behold," says Isaiah, "the day of the Lord cometh past remedy, full of fury and wrath, to lay waste the city of the earth, and to root sinners out of it." And again he says, "Let him be taken away, that he behold not the glory …
Concerning that day, hear the prophets, saying, "The day of the Lord is incurable, full of anger and wrath." For there will be none to stand by, none to rescue, nowhere the face of Christ, so mild and calm.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)