Isaiah 1 Free Bible Version
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1 This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1 VISIÓN de Isaías hijo de Amoz, la cual vió sobre Judá y Jerusalem, en días de Uzzías, Jotham, Achâz y Ezechîas, reyes de Judá.
2 Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
2 Oid, cielos, y escucha tú, tierra; porque habla Jehová: Crié hijos, y engrandecílos, y ellos se rebelaron contra mí.
3 An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
3 El buey conoce á su dueño, y el asno el pesebre de su señor: Israel no conoce, mi pueblo no tiene entendimiento.
4 What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
4 ¡Oh gente pecadora, pueblo cargado de maldad, generación de malignos, hijos depravados! Dejaron á Jehová, provocaron á ira al Santo de Israel, tornáronse atrás.
5 Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
5 ¿Para qué habéis de ser castigados aún? todavía os rebelaréis. Toda cabeza está enferma, y todo corazón doliente.
6 You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.
6 Desde la planta del pie hasta la cabeza no hay en él cosa ilesa, [sino] herida, hinchazón y podrida llaga: no están curadas, ni vendadas, ni suavizadas con aceite.
7 Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
7 Vuestra tierra está destruída, vuestras ciudades puestas á fuego, vuestra tierra delante de vosotros comida de extranjeros, y asolada como asolamiento de extraños.
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.
8 Y queda la hija de Sión como choza en viña, y como cabaña en melonar, como ciudad asolada.
9 If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
9 Si Jehová de los ejércitos no hubiera hecho que nos quedasen muy cortos residuos, como Sodoma fuéramos, y semejantes á Gomorra.
10 Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
10 Príncipes de Sodoma, oid la palabra de Jehová; escuchad la ley de nuestro Dios, pueblo de Gomorra.
11 What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
11 ¿Para qué á mí, dice Jehová, la multitud de vuestros sacrificios? Harto estoy de holocaustos de carneros, y de sebo de animales gruesos: no quiero sangre de bueyes, ni de ovejas, ni de machos cabríos.
12 When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?
12 ¿Quién demandó esto de vuestras manos, cuando vinieseis á presentaros delante de mí, para hollar mis atrios?
13 Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
13 No me traigáis más vano presente: el perfume me es abominación: luna nueva y sábado, el convocar asambleas, no las puedo sufrir: son iniquidad vuestras solemnidades.
14 I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
14 Vuestras lunas nuevas y vuestras solemnidades tiene aborrecidas mi alma: me son gravosas; cansado estoy de llevarlas.
15 When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
15 Cuando extendiereis vuestras manos, yo esconderé de vosotros mis ojos: asimismo cuando multiplicareis la oración, yo no oiré: llenas están de sangre vuestras manos.
16 Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
16 Lavad, limpiaos; quitad la iniquidad de vuestras obras de ante mis ojos; dejad de hacer lo malo:
17 Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
17 Aprended á hacer bien; buscad juicio, restituid al agraviado, oid en derecho al huérfano, amparad á la viuda.
18 Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
18 Venid luego, dirá Jehová, y estemos á cuenta: si vuestros pecados fueren como la grana, como la nieve serán emblanquecidos: si fueren rojos como el carmesí, vendrán á ser como [blanca] lana.
19 If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
19 Si quisiereis y oyereis, comeréis el bien de la tierra:
20 But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
20 Si no quisiereis y fuereis rebeldes, seréis consumidos á espada: porque la boca de Jehová lo ha dicho.
21 The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
21 ¿Cómo te has tornado ramera, oh ciudad fiel? Llena estuvo de juicio, en ella habitó equidad; mas ahora, homicidas.
22 Your silver has become worthless waste; your wine has been watered down.
22 Tu plata se ha tornado escorias, tu vino mezclado [está] con agua.
23 Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
23 Tus príncipes, prevaricadores y compañeros de ladrones: todos aman las dádivas, y van tras las recompensas: no oyen en juicio al huérfano, ni llega á ellos la causa de la viuda.
24 So this is what the Lord says, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will take satisfaction in punishing my enemies, by paying back those who hate me!
24 Por tanto, dice el Señor Jehová de los ejércitos, el Fuerte de Israel: Ea, tomaré satisfacción de mis enemigos, vengaréme de mis adversarios:
25 I will turn against you. I will refine you in a furnace, removing all impurities.
25 Y volveré mi mano sobre ti, y limpiaré hasta lo más puro tus escorias, y quitaré todo tu estaño:
26 I will give you good leaders as you used to have before, wise counselors as you had in the beginning. After that you will once again be called the City of Integrity, the Faithful City.
26 Y restituiré tus jueces como al principio, y tus consejeros como de primero: entonces te llamarán Ciudad de justicia, Ciudad fiel.
27 Zion will be rescued by justice, those who repent by doing right.
27 Sión con juicio será rescatada, y los convertidos de ella con justicia.
28 But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
28 Mas los rebeldes y pecadores á una serán quebrantados, y los que dejan á Jehová serán consumidos.
29 You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
29 Entonces os avergonzarán los olmos que amasteis, y os afrentarán los bosques que escogisteis.
30 As a result you will become like an oak whose leaves have withered, a dried-out garden that has no water.
30 Porque seréis como el olmo que se le cae la hoja, y como huerto que le faltan las aguas.
31 Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.
31 Y el fuerte será como estopa, y lo que hizo como centella; y ambos serán encendidos juntamente, y no habrá quien apague.
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 Chronicles 26:1–32:33; 2 Kings 18:1–20:21
- 2 Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 30:19; Micah 1:2; Deuteronomy 4:26; Psalm 50:4
- 3 Jeremiah 8:7; Jeremiah 4:22; Isaiah 44:18; Isaiah 5:12; Matthew 13:13–15
- 4 Isaiah 5:24; Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 2:13; Romans 8:7; Isaiah 5:19
- 5 Daniel 9:8–11; Ezekiel 24:13; Jeremiah 5:3; Revelation 16:8–11; Zephaniah 3:1–4
- 6 Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 33:6; Matthew 9:12; Psalm 77:2; Job 5:18
- 7 Deuteronomy 28:43; Lamentations 5:2; Deuteronomy 28:33; Hosea 7:9; Ezekiel 30:12
- 8 Zechariah 9:9; John 12:15; Zechariah 2:10; Isaiah 62:11; Isaiah 10:32
- 9 Romans 9:29; Isaiah 37:31–32; Genesis 19:24; Lamentations 3:22; Romans 11:4–6
- 10 Revelation 11:8; Ezekiel 16:49; Deuteronomy 32:32; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 23:14
- 11 1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 66:3; Micah 6:7
- 12 Exodus 34:23; Psalm 40:6; Isaiah 58:1–2; Exodus 23:17; Ecclesiastes 5:1
- 13 Isaiah 66:3; Malachi 1:10; Matthew 15:9; Ezekiel 20:39; Lamentations 2:6
- 14 Amos 5:21; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 61:8; Malachi 2:17
- 15 Micah 3:4; Isaiah 59:2–3; Proverbs 1:28; Zechariah 7:13; Jeremiah 7:8–10
- 16 Isaiah 55:6–7; 1 Peter 3:11; 1 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 7:1; James 4:8
- 17 Micah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:3; Psalm 82:3–4; Proverbs 31:9; Isaiah 1:23
- 18 Isaiah 44:22; Revelation 7:14; Psalm 51:7; Micah 7:18–19; Isaiah 43:24–26
- 19 Deuteronomy 30:15–16; Isaiah 3:10; Joel 2:26; Hebrews 5:9; Isaiah 55:6–7
- 20 Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 58:14; Numbers 23:19; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 3:11
- 21 Zechariah 8:3; Zephaniah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 22:1–23; Isaiah 48:2; Micah 3:2–3
- 22 Lamentations 4:1–2; Jeremiah 6:28–30; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Hosea 4:18; 2 Corinthians 2:17
- 23 Micah 7:3; Zechariah 7:10; Exodus 23:8; Luke 18:2–5; Acts 4:5–11
- 24 Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 49:26; Deuteronomy 28:63; Isaiah 61:2; Ezekiel 5:13
- 25 Malachi 3:3; Isaiah 1:22; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 4:4; Ezekiel 20:38
- 26 Jeremiah 33:7; Zechariah 8:3; Isaiah 62:1–2; Isaiah 32:1–2; Numbers 12:3
- 27 Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 63:4; Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 45:21–25; Romans 3:24–26
- 28 2 Thessalonians 1:8–9; Psalm 1:6; Revelation 21:8; Job 31:3; Isaiah 30:13
- 29 Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 57:5; Isaiah 66:17; Hosea 4:13; Ezekiel 16:63
- 30 Jeremiah 17:5–6; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 31:12; Isaiah 58:11; Ezekiel 17:24
- 31 Isaiah 66:24; Malachi 4:1; Ezekiel 32:21; Isaiah 34:9–10; Revelation 19:20
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And if ye be willing and obey Me, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse, and will not hearken unto Me, the sword shall devour you, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things." Desiring, therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He has, by His almighty will, established [these …
He spoke as from their person: "Except the Lord had left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and Gomorrah." For Sodom and Gomorrah are related by Moses to have been cities of ungodly men, which God burned with fire and brimstone, and overthrew, no one of their inhabitants being saved except a certain stranger, a Chaldæan by …
He says: "Hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken." And again: "Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and stretched it out; who established the earth, and the things in it; and who giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them who walk therein."
… for the prophets often show that this same Lord of ours might have been their Father also, if they had not strayed from His commandments: as, for instance, we have that statement, "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me;" and that other, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
And the city, too, it is said, shall be called "the city of righteousness, the faithful city Sion." And yet we nowhere find that the city was called "righteousness," but it continued to be called Jerusalem.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)