Isaiah 32 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and as for princes, they shall rule in justice.
1 HE aquí que en justicia reinará un rey, y príncipes presidirán en juicio.
2 And a man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as by the watercourses in a dry place, as in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
2 Y será aquel varón como escondedero contra el viento, y como acogida contra el turbión; como arroyos de aguas en tierra de sequedad, como sombra de gran peñasco en tierra calurosa.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be closed, and the ears of them that hear shall attend.
3 No se ofuscarán entonces los ojos de los que ven, y los oídos de los oyentes oirán atentos.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
4 Y el corazón de los necios entenderá para saber, y la lengua de los tartamudos será desenvuelta para hablar claramente.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.
5 El mezquino nunca más será llamado liberal, ni será dicho generoso el avariento.
6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
6 Porque el mezquino hablará mezquindades, y su corazón fabricará iniquidad, para hacer la impiedad y para hablar escarnio contra Jehová, dejando vacía el alma hambrienta, y quitando la bebida al sediento.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil; he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaketh right.
7 Cierto los avaros malas medidas [tienen]: él maquina pensamientos para enredar á los simples con palabras cautelosas, y para hablar en juicio [contra] el pobre.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
8 Mas el liberal pensará liberalidades, y por liberalidades subirá.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech.
9 Mujeres reposadas, levantaos, oid mi voz; confiadas, escuchad mi razón.
10 After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
10 Días y años tendréis espanto, oh confiadas; porque la vendimia faltará, y la cosecha no acudirá.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins,
11 Temblad, oh reposadas; turbaos, oh confiadas: despojaos, desnudaos, ceñid los lomos [con saco].
12 Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;
12 Sobre los pechos lamentarán por los campos deleitosos, por la vid fértil.
13 For the land of my people whereon thorns and briers come up; yea, for all the houses of joy and the joyous city.
13 Sobre la tierra de mi pueblo subirán espinas y cardos; y aun sobre todas las casas de placer en la ciudad de alegría.
14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the city with its stir shall be deserted; the mound and the tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
14 Porque los palacios serán desiertos, la multitud de la ciudad cesará: las torres y fortalezas se tornarán cuevas para siempre, donde huelguen asnos monteses, y ganados hagan majada:
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
15 Hasta que sobre nosotros sea derramado espíritu de lo alto, y el desierto se torne en campo labrado, y el campo labrado sea estimado por bosque.
16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
16 Y habitará el juicio en el desierto, y en el campo labrado asentará la justicia.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever.
17 Y el efecto de la justicia será paz; y la labor de justicia, reposo y seguridad para siempre.
18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
18 Y mi pueblo habitará en morada de paz, y en habitaciones seguras, y en recreos de reposo.
19 And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.
19 Y el granizo, cuando descendiere, [será] en los montes; y la ciudad será del todo abatida.
20 Happy are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the ass.
20 Dichosos vosotros los que sembráis sobre todas aguas, y metéis [en ellas] el pie de buey y de asno.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 9:6–7; Hebrews 1:8–9; Jeremiah 33:15; Revelation 19:11; 2 Samuel 23:3
- 2 Isaiah 25:4; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 43:20
- 3 Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 35:5–6; Acts 26:18; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 John 2:20–21
- 4 Isaiah 29:24; Luke 21:14–15; Matthew 16:17; Nehemiah 8:8–12; Matthew 11:25
- 5 Isaiah 5:20; Psalm 15:4; Malachi 3:18; Proverbs 23:6–8; 1 Samuel 25:3–8
- 6 Matthew 15:19; Isaiah 3:15; Matthew 23:13; Acts 8:21–22; Acts 5:3–4
- 7 Jeremiah 5:26–28; Acts 6:11–13; Psalm 64:4–6; Isaiah 5:23; Matthew 26:59–60
- 8 2 Samuel 9:1–13; Acts 11:29–30; Proverbs 11:24–25
- 9 Isaiah 28:23; Isaiah 3:16; Matthew 13:9; Amos 6:1–6; Jeremiah 48:11–12
- 10 Isaiah 7:23; Jeremiah 8:13; Hosea 3:4; Jeremiah 25:10–11; Hosea 2:12
- 11 Isaiah 3:24; Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 6:26; Hosea 2:3; Isaiah 33:14
- 12 Deuteronomy 8:7–8; Deuteronomy 11:11–12; Ezekiel 20:15; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 4:3–4
- 13 Hosea 9:6; Isaiah 22:2; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 7:23; Revelation 18:7–8
- 14 Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 27:10; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 24:10; Psalm 104:11
- 15 Isaiah 29:17; Ezekiel 39:29; Isaiah 44:3; Titus 3:5–6; Luke 24:49
- 16 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Isaiah 60:21; 1 Peter 2:9–12; Psalm 94:14–15; Isaiah 42:4
- 17 Isaiah 26:3; Psalm 119:165; James 3:17–18; Romans 14:17; Psalm 85:8
- 18 Zechariah 2:5; Hosea 2:18–23; Jeremiah 33:16; Ezekiel 34:25–26; Isaiah 35:9–10
- 19 Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 28:2; Isaiah 30:30; Isaiah 26:5; Zechariah 11:2
- 20 Ecclesiastes 11:1; Isaiah 30:23–24; Isaiah 55:10–11; Acts 2:41; 1 Corinthians 3:6
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