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Isaiah 44 Literal Standard Version
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1 “And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, || And Israel, whom I have fixed on—
1 AHORA pues oye, Jacob, siervo mío, y [tú], Israel, á quien yo escogí.
2 Thus said YHWH, your Maker, and your Former, || From the womb He helps you: Do not fear, My servant Jacob, || And Yeshurun, whom I have fixed on.
2 Así dice Jehová, Hacedor tuyo, y el que te formó desde el vientre, el cual te ayudará: No temas, siervo mío Jacob, y tú, Jeshurun, á quien yo escogí.
3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, || And floods on a dry land, || I pour My Spirit on your seed, || And My blessing on your offspring.
3 Porque yo derramaré aguas sobre el secadal, y ríos sobre la [tierra] árida: mi espíritu derramaré sobre tu generación, y mi bendición sobre tus renuevos:
4 And they have sprung up as among grass, || As willows by conduits of water.
4 Y brotarán entre hierba, como sauces junto á las riberas de las aguas.
5 This [one] says, For I [am] YHWH’s, || And this calls [himself] by the name of Jacob, || And this [one] writes [with] his hand, For YHWH, || And surnames himself by the name of Israel.”
5 Este dirá: Yo soy de Jehová; el otro se llamará del nombre de Jacob; y otro escribirá con su mano, A Jehová, y se apellidará con el nombre de Israel.
6 Thus said YHWH, King of Israel, || And his Redeemer, YHWH of Hosts: “I [am] the first, and I [am] the last, || And besides Me there is no God.
6 Así dice Jehová, Rey de Israel, y su Redentor, Jehová de los ejércitos: Yo el primero, y yo el postrero, y fuera de mí no hay Dios.
7 And who [is] as I, call and declare it, || And arrange it for Me, || Since My placing the people of antiquity, || And things that are coming, || And those that come, they declare to them.
7 ¿Y quién llamará como yo, y denunciará esto, y lo ordenará por mí, desde que hice el pueblo antiguo? Anúncienles lo que viene, y lo que está por venir.
8 Do not fear, nor be afraid, || Have I not caused you to hear from that time, and declared? And you [are] My witnesses, || Is there a God besides Me? Indeed, there is none, || I have not known another Rock.”
8 No temáis, ni os amedrentéis: ¿no te lo hice oir desde antiguo, y te lo dije? Luego vosotros sois mis testigos. No hay Dios sino yo. No hay Fuerte: no conozco ninguno.
9 Framers of a carved image, all of them [are] emptiness, || And their desirable things do not profit, || And they [are] their own witnesses, || They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
9 Los formadores de imágenes de talla, todos ellos son vanidad, y lo más precioso de ellos para nada es útil; y ellos mismos para su confusión son testigos, que ellos ni ven ni entienden.
10 Who has formed a god, || And poured out a molten image—not profitable?
10 ¿Quién formó un dios, ó quién fundó una estatua que para nada es de provecho?
11 Behold, all his companions are ashamed, || As for artisans—they [are] of men, || All of them gather together, they stand up, || They fear, they are ashamed together.
11 He aquí que todos sus compañeros serán avergonzados; porque los mismos artífices son de los hombres. Todos ellos se juntarán, estarán, se asombrarán, y serán avergonzados á una.
12 He has worked iron [with] an axe, || And has worked with coals, || And forms it with hammers, || And works it by his powerful arm, || Indeed, he is hungry, and there is no power, || He does not drink water, and he is wearied.
12 El herrero [tomará] la tenaza, obrará en las ascuas, darále forma con los martillos, y trabajará en ella con la fuerza de su brazo: tiene luego hambre, y le faltan las fuerzas; no beberá agua, y se desmaya.
13 He has worked [with] wood, || He has stretched out a rule, || He marks it out with a line, || He makes it with carving tools, || And he marks it out with a compass, || And makes it according to the form of a man, || According to the beauty of a man, || To remain in the house.
13 El carpintero tiende la regla, señala aquélla con almagre, lábrala con los cepillos, dale figura con el compás, hácela en forma de varón, á semejanza de hombre hermoso, para estar en casa.
14 Cutting down cedars for himself, || He also takes a cypress, and an oak, || And he strengthens [it] for himself || Among the trees of a forest, || He has planted an ash, and the shower nourishes [it].
14 Cortaráse cedros, y tomará encina y alcornoque, y entre los árboles del bosque se esforzará; plantará pino, que se críe con la lluvia.
15 And it has been for man to burn, || And he takes of them, and becomes warm, || Indeed, he kindles [it], and has baked bread, || Indeed, he makes a god, and bows himself, || He has made it a carved image, || And he falls down to it.
15 De él se servirá luego el hombre para quemar, y tomará de ellos para calentarse; encenderá también [el horno], y cocerá panes: hará además un dios, y lo adorará; fabricará un ídolo, y arrodillaráse delante de él.
16 Half of it he has burned in the fire, || By [this] half of it he eats flesh, || He roasts a roasting and is satisfied, || Indeed, he is warm and says: “Aha, I have become warm, I have enjoyed the light.”
16 Parte del [leño] quemará en el fuego; con parte de él comerá carne, aderezará asado, y se saciará; después se calentará, y dirá: ¡Oh! heme calentado, he visto el fuego;
17 And he has made its remnant for a god—For his carved image, || He falls down to it, and worships, || And prays to it, and he says, “Deliver me, for you [are] my god.”
17 Y torna su sobrante en un dios, en su escultura; humíllase delante de ella, adórala, y ruégale diciendo: Líbrame, que mi dios eres tú.
18 They have not known, nor do they understand, || For He has coated their eyes from seeing, || Their heart from acting wisely.
18 No supieron ni entendieron: porque encostrados están sus ojos para no ver, y su corazón para no entender.
19 And none turn [it] back to his heart, || Nor has knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire, || Indeed, I have also baked bread over its coals, || I roast flesh and I eat, || And I make its remnant for an abomination, || I fall down to the stock of a tree.”
19 No discurre para consigo, no tiene sentido ni entendimiento para decir: Parte de esto quemé en el fuego, y sobre sus brasas cocí pan, asé carne, y comíla; ¿he de tornar en una abominación lo restante de ello? ¿delante de un tronco de árbol tengo de humillarme?
20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, || It has turned him aside, || And he does not deliver his soul, nor says: “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
20 De ceniza se apacienta; su corazón engañado le desvía, para que no libre su alma, ni diga: ¿No hay una mentira á mi mano derecha?
21 “Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, || For you [are] My servant, || I formed you, you [are] a servant to Me, || O Israel, you do not forget Me.
21 Acuérdate de estas cosas, oh Jacob, é Israel, pues que tú mi siervo eres: Yo te formé; siervo mío eres tú: Israel, no me olvides.
22 I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, || Your transgressions, || And as [by] a cloud, your sins, || Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
22 Yo deshice como á nube tus rebeliones, y como á niebla tus pecados: tórnate á mí, porque yo te redimí.
23 Sing, O heavens, for YHWH has worked, || Shout, O lower parts of earth, || Break forth, O mountains, with singing, || Forest, and every tree in it, || For YHWH has redeemed Jacob, || And He beautifies Himself in Israel.
23 Cantad loores, oh cielos, porque Jehová lo hizo; gritad con júbilo, lugares bajos de la tierra; prorrumpid, montes, en alabanza; bosque, y todo árbol que en él está: porque Jehová redimió á Jacob, y en Israel será glorificado.
24 Thus said YHWH, your Redeemer, || And your Framer from the womb: “I [am] YHWH, doing all things, || Stretching out the heavens by Myself, || Spreading out the earth—who [is] with Me?
24 Así dice Jehová, tu Redentor, y formador tuyo desde el vientre: Yo Jehová, que lo hago todo, que extiendo solo los cielos, que extiendo la tierra por mí mismo;
25 Making void the tokens of devisers, || And makes diviners mad, || Turning the wise backward, || And makes their knowledge foolish.
25 Que deshago las señales de los adivinos, y enloquezco á los agoreros; que hago tornar atrás los sabios, y desvanezco su sabiduría;
26 Confirming the word of His servant, || He perfects the counsel of His messengers, || Who is saying of Jerusalem, || She is inhabited, || And of cities of Judah, || They will be built, and her ruins I raise up,
26 Que despierta la palabra de su siervo, y cumple el consejo de sus mensajeros; que dice á Jerusalem: Serás habitada; y á las ciudades de Judá: Reedificadas serán, y sus ruinas levantaré;
27 Who is saying to the deep, || Be dry, and your rivers I cause to dry up,
27 Que dice al profundo: Sécate, y tus ríos haré secar;
28 Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, || And he perfects all My delight, || So as to say of Jerusalem, You are built, || And of the temple, You are founded.”
28 Que dice de Ciro: [Es] mi pastor, y cumplirá todo lo que yo quiero, en diciendo á Jerusalem, Serás edificada; y al templo: Serás fundado.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 41:8; Romans 11:5–6; Jeremiah 30:10; Psalm 105:6; Hebrews 3:7–8
- 2 Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 46:3–4; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 43:7
- 3 Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17; Isaiah 59:21; John 7:37–39; Proverbs 1:23
- 4 Isaiah 58:11; Psalm 1:3; Psalm 92:13–15; Ezekiel 17:5; Psalm 137:1–2
- 5 Zechariah 13:9; Deuteronomy 26:17–19; Nehemiah 9:38–10:29; 1 Peter 2:9; Galatians 6:16
- 6 Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 43:10–11; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 22:13; Isaiah 44:8
- 7 Isaiah 41:26; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 46:9–10; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 43:9
- 8 Isaiah 43:10; 1 Samuel 2:2; Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39; John 10:30
- 9 Isaiah 41:24; Jeremiah 10:14–15; Habakkuk 2:18–20; Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 41:29
- 10 Jeremiah 10:5; Habakkuk 2:18; Acts 19:26; Daniel 3:1; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 11 Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 45:16; Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 1:29; Acts 19:24–34
- 12 Isaiah 41:6–7; Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 46:6–7; Jeremiah 10:3–11; Habakkuk 2:13
- 13 Judges 17:4–5; Deuteronomy 4:16–18; Psalm 115:5–7; Romans 1:23; Acts 17:29
- 14 Isaiah 40:20; Jeremiah 10:3–8; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 4:12
- 15 2 Chronicles 25:14; Judges 2:19; Revelation 9:20; Isaiah 45:20; Isaiah 44:10
- 17 Isaiah 45:20; Daniel 3:29; 1 Kings 18:26; Isaiah 37:38; Isaiah 36:19–20
- 18 Isaiah 6:9–10; 2 Corinthians 4:3–4; John 12:39–40; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; Jeremiah 5:21
- 19 Deuteronomy 27:15; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:5; Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 45:20
- 20 Hosea 12:1; Psalm 102:9; Romans 1:28; Job 15:31; Romans 1:25
- 21 Isaiah 44:1–2; Isaiah 49:15–16; Isaiah 46:8–9; Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 43:1
- 22 Isaiah 43:25; 1 Corinthians 6:20; Acts 3:18–19; Isaiah 43:1; 1 Peter 1:18–19
- 23 Ephesians 1:6–7; Revelation 5:8–14; Psalm 98:7–8; Revelation 19:1–6; Psalm 69:34
- 24 Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 45:18; Revelation 5:9
- 25 Psalm 33:10; Job 5:12–14; 2 Samuel 15:31; Jeremiah 50:36; Isaiah 47:12–14
- 26 1 Kings 18:36–38; Isaiah 42:9; Acts 2:25–28; 2 Peter 1:19–21; Nehemiah 1:3
- 27 Jeremiah 51:36; Jeremiah 50:38; Isaiah 42:15; Revelation 16:12; Jeremiah 51:32
- 28 2 Chronicles 36:22; Isaiah 45:1; Daniel 10:1; Ezra 6:3–18; Isaiah 45:13
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“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).
And this shall come to pass through the loving-kindness of God, who says to you, Behold, I will blot out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud thy sins.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
However, a time will come, when all shall be consumed by fire; as Isaiah says of the God of the universe in these words, "That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers." Reject then the foolish wisdom of this world, and receive with me the more simple but infallible doctrine of truth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)