Isaiah 29 Free Bible Version
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1 Tragedy is coming to you Ariel, Ariel the city where David lived! Year after year you have your festivals.
1 ¡AY de Ariel, ciudad donde habitó David! Añadid un año á otro, mátense víctimas.
2 But I'm going to cause trouble for Ariel; the city will cry and mourn, it will be like an altar hearth to me.
2 Mas yo pondré á Ariel en apretura, y será desconsolada y triste; y será á mí como Ariel.
3 I will surround you, I will besiege you with towers and build ramps to attack you.
3 Porque asentaré campo contra ti en derredor, y te combatiré con ingenios, y levantaré contra ti baluartes.
4 You will be brought down, you will speak from where you're lying on the ground, mumbling in the dust. Your words will come like a ghost from the grave; your voice will be a whisper from the dust.
4 Entonces serás humillada, hablarás desde la tierra, y tu habla saldrá del polvo; y será tu voz de la tierra como de pythón, y tu habla susurrará desde el polvo.
5 But then all your enemies will become like fine dust; all your cruel oppressors like chaff that's blown away. Then suddenly, in no time at all,
5 Y la muchedumbre de tus extranjeros será como polvo menudo, y la multitud de los fuertes como tamo que pasa; y será repentinamente, en un momento.
6 the Lord Almighty will arrive with thunder, earthquake, and tremendous noise, with whirlwind, storm, and flames of fire that burn everything up.
6 De Jehová de los ejércitos serás visitada con truenos y con terremotos y con gran ruido, con torbellino y tempestad, y llama de fuego consumidor.
7 The nations besieging Ariel, attacking its fortifications and tormenting the people, they will all disappear as if it was a dream!
7 Y será como sueño de visión nocturna la multitud de todas las gentes que pelearán contra Ariel, y todos los que pelearán contra ella y sus ingenios, y los que la pondrán en apretura.
8 It will be like someone hungry dreaming that they're eating but who wakes up still hungry. It will be like someone thirsty dreaming of drinking but who wakes up still weak and thirsty. This is what it will be like for all your enemies, the ones attacking Mount Zion.
8 Y será como el que tiene hambre y sueña, y parece que come; mas cuando despierta, su alma está vacía; ó como el que tiene sed y sueña, y parece que bebe; mas cuando se despierta, hállase cansado, y su alma sedienta: así será la multitud de todas las gentes que pelearán contra el monte de Sión.
9 Be shocked and amazed! Make yourselves blind so you can't see! Get drunk, but not from wine! Stagger around, but not from beer!
9 Deteneos y maravillaos; ofuscaos y cegad; embriagaos, y no de vino; titubead, y no de sidra.
10 For the Lord has made you very sleepy, and he has shut the eyes and covered the heads of those who speak for God and see visions.
10 Porque Jehová extendió sobre vosotros espíritu de sueño, y cerró vuestros ojos: cubrió vuestros profetas, y vuestros principales videntes.
11 This entire vision is like words in a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to someone who knows how to read and say, “Please read it,” they'll say, “I can't read it because it's sealed shut.”
11 Y os será toda visión como palabras de libro sellado, el cual si dieren al que sabe leer, y le dijeren: Lee ahora esto; él dirá: No puedo, porque está sellado.
12 If you give it to someone who doesn't know how to read and say, “Please read it,” they'll say, “I don't know how to read.”
12 Y si se diere el libro al que no sabe leer, diciéndole: Lee ahora esto; él dirá: No sé leer.
13 The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.
13 Dice pues el Señor: Porque este pueblo se [me] acerca con su boca, y con sus labios me honra, mas su corazón alejó de mí, y su temor para conmigo fué enseñado por mandamiento de hombres:
14 So once again I will surprise these people with miracle upon miracle. The wisdom of the wise will die, and the insight of the insightful will disappear.”
14 Por tanto, he aquí que nuevamente excitaré yo la admiración de este pueblo con un prodigio grande y espantoso; porque perecerá la sabiduría de sus sabios, y se desvanecerá la prudencia de sus prudentes.
15 Tragedy is coming to people who take such trouble to hide their plans from the Lord. They work in the dark and say to themselves, “Nobody can see us, can they? Nobody will know, will they?”
15 ¡Ay de los que se esconden de Jehová, encubriendo el consejo, y sus obras son en tinieblas, y dicen: ¿Quién nos ve, y quién nos conoce?
16 How perverse you are! It's as if the clay was thought of as making the potter! Should something made say to its maker, “You didn't make me”? Can the pot tell the potter, “You don't understand anything”?
16 Vuestra subversión ciertamente será reputada como el barro del alfarero. ¿La obra dirá de su hacedor, No me hizo; y dirá el vaso de aquel que lo ha formado, No entendió?
17 It won't be long and the forests of Lebanon will be turned into a productive field, and a productive field will seem like a forest.
17 ¿No será tornado de aquí á muy poco tiempo el Líbano en Carmelo, y el Carmelo será estimado por bosque?
18 At that time the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and the eyes of the blind will see through the gloomy darkness what's written there.
18 Y en aquel tiempo los sordos oirán las palabras del libro, y los ojos de los ciegos verán en medio de la oscuridad y de las tinieblas.
19 The humble will be even happier in the Lord, and the poor will find their joy in the Holy One of Israel.
19 Entonces los humildes crecerán en alegría en Jehová, y los pobres de los hombres se gozarán en el Santo de Israel.
20 Cruel people will no longer exist, the scornful will vanish, and those looking to do evil will be destroyed—
20 Porque el violento será acabado, y el escarnecedor será consumido: serán talados todos los que madrugaban á la iniquidad.
21 those who say things to trick others into sin, those who trap people by legal arguments in court, those who lie to mislead the innocent.
21 Los que hacían pecar al hombre en palabra; los que armaban lazo al que reprendía en la puerta, y torcieron lo justo en vanidad.
22 So this is what the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: “You don't need to be ashamed anymore; your faces won't grow pale with fright any longer.
22 Por tanto, Jehová que redimió á Abraham, dice así á la casa de Jacob: No será ahora confundido Jacob, ni su rostro se pondrá pálido;
23 When you see all your children and everything I've done for you, then you will regard my character as holy, and you will respect the Holy One of Jacob. You will have reverence for the God of Israel.
23 Porque verá á sus hijos, obra de mis manos en medio de sí, que santificarán mi nombre; y santificarán al Santo de Jacob, y temerán al Dios de Israel.
24 Those who've gone astray will understand their mistakes; those who grumble will learn how to receive instruction.”
24 Y los errados de espíritu aprenderán inteligencia, y los murmuradores aprenderán doctrina.
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Amos 4:4–5; 2 Samuel 5:9; Micah 6:6–7; Hosea 5:6; Ezekiel 43:15–16
- 2 Isaiah 5:25–30; Revelation 19:17–18; Zephaniah 1:7–8; Ezekiel 39:17; Isaiah 34:6
- 3 Luke 19:43–44; Ezekiel 21:22; 2 Kings 24:11–12; 2 Kings 18:17; Matthew 22:7
- 4 Isaiah 8:19; Psalm 44:25; Isaiah 3:8; Isaiah 51:23; Isaiah 2:11–21
- 5 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 31:3; Isaiah 17:13–14
- 6 Mark 13:8; Matthew 24:7; Revelation 11:19; Revelation 16:18; 1 Samuel 2:10
- 7 Job 20:8; Zechariah 12:9; Micah 4:11–12; Psalm 73:20; Zechariah 14:12–15
- 8 Isaiah 44:12; Psalm 73:20; Isaiah 10:7–16; 2 Chronicles 32:21
- 9 Isaiah 51:21–22; Revelation 17:6; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 33:13–14; Isaiah 49:26
- 10 Romans 11:8; Isaiah 44:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; Isaiah 6:9–10; Acts 28:26–27
- 11 Matthew 13:11; Daniel 12:4; Isaiah 8:16; Daniel 12:9; Matthew 11:25
- 12 John 7:15–16; Isaiah 29:18; Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 28:12–13; Jeremiah 5:4
- 13 Jeremiah 12:2; Ezekiel 33:31–33; Mark 7:2–13; Matthew 15:2–9; Jeremiah 3:10
- 14 Habakkuk 1:5; 1 Corinthians 1:19–24; Isaiah 28:21; Jeremiah 49:7; John 9:39–41
- 15 Ezekiel 8:12; Isaiah 47:10; Isaiah 30:1; Psalm 94:7–9; Zephaniah 1:12
- 16 Romans 9:19–21; Isaiah 64:8; Isaiah 45:9–11; Psalm 94:8–9; Jeremiah 18:1–10
- 17 Isaiah 32:15; Matthew 19:30; Hebrews 10:37; Ezekiel 20:46–47; Psalm 84:6
- 18 Matthew 11:5; Isaiah 35:5; Proverbs 20:12; Ephesians 1:17–19; Psalm 119:18
- 19 James 2:5; Isaiah 61:1; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 5:5; Psalm 25:9
- 20 Micah 2:1; Isaiah 28:14–22; Luke 16:14; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 59:4
- 21 Amos 5:10–12; James 5:6; Acts 3:14; Jeremiah 26:2–8; Luke 11:53–54
- 22 Isaiah 45:17; Jeremiah 30:10; Isaiah 51:2; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Joel 2:27
- 23 Isaiah 19:25; Ephesians 2:10; Isaiah 45:11; Isaiah 8:13; Isaiah 5:16
- 24 Isaiah 28:7; Hebrews 5:2; Luke 15:17–19; Revelation 20:2–3; 1 Timothy 1:13–15
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What the Fathers said
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How these were chosen
“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).
For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me." And again: "They bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart." And again it saith, "They loved Him with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither …
As also Isaiah says: "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me: howbeit in vain do they worship Me, teaching the doctrines and the commandments of men." He does not call the law given by Moses commandments of men, but the traditions of the elders themselves which they had invented, and in upholding which …
But He fulfills what the holy prophets truly predicted regarding Him: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nought the prudence of the prudent." For He does not destroy and bring to nought His own gift in them, but what they arrogate to themselves, and do not hold of Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Have ye not heard the prophet, saying (or rather God by the prophet), "This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me?" Therefore, lest this be our case too, wipe thou out the letters, or rather the impressions, which the devil hath engraven in thy soul; and bring me a heart set free from worldly …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)