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1 Subiré a la torre de vigilancia y me quedaré ahí a la espera de la respuesta que Dios dará a mi queja.
1 I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
2 Entonces el Señor me dijo: «Escribe mi respuesta en letras grandes y claras, para que cualquiera pueda leerla de una mirada y corra a contarla a los demás.
2 Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
3 Las cosas que planeo no ocurrirán tan pronto, pero con toda seguridad ocurrirán. Aunque pienses que se demoran en cumplirse, no te desesperes. ¡Todo acontecerá en el día que he señalado!
3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
4 »Los babilonios son prepotentes, porque son malvados; pero el justo vivirá porque confía en Dios.
4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
5 Estos babilonios arrogantes desean siempre el poder, por eso se apoderan de naciones y de pueblos. Pero es tanta su codicia, que se parecen a la muerte que nunca está satisfecha, aunque sean muchos los muertos.
5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
6 Viene el día en que todos sus cautivos se burlarán de ellos, diciendo: “¡Ladrones! ¡Pobre Babilonia, ya no podrá seguir haciéndose rica con los bienes ajenos! ¡Por fin dejarás de robar y de acumular tantas riquezas!”.
6 Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
7 »De repente, aquellos a quienes oprimiste se levantarán contra ti. Se vengarán de ti y te quitarán todos tus bienes.
7 Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
8 ¡Te pagarán con tu misma moneda! Así como tú robaste a muchas naciones, habrá naciones que te robarán a ti. De esa manera pagarás por toda tu violencia, por todos los crímenes que cometiste en las ciudades del país.
8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
9 »¡Pobre de ti, Babilonia! Te hiciste rica con los bienes de otros y pensaste que ningún mal te alcanzaría por haber puesto tu residencia en zona muy alta y bien protegida.
9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 Por los homicidios cometidos, has llenado de vergüenza a tu nación. Al destruir a muchas naciones te buscaste tu propio mal, cavaste tu propia tumba.
10 You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
11 Ahora la venganza la tienes en tu propia casa. Las piedras de tus casas claman contra ti, y las vigas del techo les hacen eco.
11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
12 »¡Pobre de ti, que edificas ciudades y pueblos con dinero obtenido por medio del asesinato y el robo y que la única ley que tienes es la de la violencia!
12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13 ¿No ha decretado el Señor Todopoderoso que las ganancias de la nación impía se conviertan en cenizas en sus manos? De modo que de nada te servirá haber acumulado tanto.
13 Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
14 Viene el día en que la tierra será llena del conocimiento de la fama del Señor, así como las aguas cubren los mares.
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
15 »¡Pobre de ti, Babilonia, que haces que las naciones vecinas caigan y se tambaleen como borrachos bajo tus golpes, para luego burlarte de ellas al verlas humilladas!
15 “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
16 Dentro de poco tu propia grandeza será transformada en vergüenza. ¡También tú caerás y serás humillada! ¡El Señor desatará sobre ti su juicio!
16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
17 Cortaste los bosques del Líbano; ahora tú serás cortada. Fuiste el terror de los animales que cayeron en tus trampas; ahora el terror te alcanzará a ti, debido a la violencia con que trataste a nuestro país y a nuestras ciudades.
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals will terrify you, because of men’s blood and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
18 »¿Qué provecho hay en rendir homenaje a los ídolos hechos por los artesanos? ¡Qué gran mentira es decir que ellos pueden ayudar! ¡Qué tonta fuiste al confiar en lo que tú misma habías hecho con tus manos!
18 “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
19 ¡Pobre de ti, Babilonia, que le dices a tus ídolos muertos que te salven! ¡Pobre de ti, que le pides a la piedra muerta que te diga lo que has de hacer! ¿Acaso crees que las imágenes de madera pueden hablar? Aunque están recargadas de oro y plata, no tienen vida.
19 Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
20 »En cambio, el Señor está en su santo templo, ¡guarden silencio respetuoso delante de él los habitantes de toda la tierra!».
20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
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 21:8; Isaiah 62:6; 2 Samuel 18:24; Psalm 85:8; Psalm 73:16–17
- 2 Isaiah 30:8; Revelation 14:13; Revelation 1:18–19; Deuteronomy 31:22; Revelation 21:5–8
- 3 Psalm 27:14; Hebrews 10:36–37; Ezekiel 12:25; Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 102:13
- 4 Romans 1:17; Hebrews 10:38; Galatians 3:11–12; Galatians 2:16; John 3:36
- 5 Isaiah 5:11–12; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 27:20; Proverbs 31:4–5; Isaiah 2:11–12
- 6 Jeremiah 50:13; Jeremiah 29:22; Isaiah 14:4–19; Numbers 23:7; Job 20:15–29
- 7 Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 13:16–18; Isaiah 48:14–15; Daniel 5:25–31; Isaiah 45:1–3
- 8 Isaiah 33:1; Habakkuk 2:17; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:17–18; Jeremiah 50:28
- 9 Jeremiah 49:16; Jeremiah 22:13–19; Proverbs 18:11–12; 1 Kings 21:2–4; Obadiah 4
- 10 Nahum 1:14; 2 Kings 9:26; Numbers 16:38; 2 Kings 10:7; Jeremiah 36:31
- 11 Luke 19:40; Joshua 24:27; James 5:3–4; Job 31:38–40; Genesis 4:10
- 12 Micah 3:10; Nahum 3:1; Daniel 4:27–31; Jeremiah 22:13–17; Revelation 17:6
- 13 Jeremiah 51:58; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 50:11; Psalm 127:1–2; Malachi 1:4
- 14 Isaiah 11:9; Psalm 22:27; Psalm 72:19; Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 86:9
- 15 Jeremiah 51:7; Genesis 9:22; Revelation 18:3; Revelation 17:2; Hosea 7:5
- 16 Isaiah 47:3; Nahum 3:5–6; Revelation 18:6; Psalm 75:8; Hosea 7:5
- 17 Habakkuk 2:8; Zechariah 11:1; Psalm 55:23; Revelation 18:20–24; Proverbs 28:17
- 18 Jeremiah 10:8; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Isaiah 44:9–10; Zechariah 10:2; Jeremiah 2:27–28
- 19 Psalm 135:17; Jeremiah 10:4; Jeremiah 10:9; 1 Kings 18:26–29; Psalm 97:7
- 20 Zechariah 2:13; Zephaniah 1:7; Psalm 46:10; Psalm 11:4; Isaiah 6:1
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).
… Epistle to the Romans, "But now, without the law, has the righteousness of God been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; for the just shall live by faith." But this fact, that the just shall live by faith, had been previously announced by the prophets.
… into four divisions--prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance--and as each of these divisions has its own virtues, faith is among the parts of justice, and has the chief place with as many of us as know what that saying means, "The just shall live by faith." But if Faith is a goddess, I wonder why these keen lovers of a multitude …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And thus it is written, "The just lives by faith," for we do not as yet see our good, and must therefore live by faith; neither have we in ourselves power to live rightly, but can do so only if He who has given us faith to believe in His help do help us when we believe and pray.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The faithful; because it is "by faith that the just shall live." For there is in the Church this order, some go before, others follow; and those who go before make themselves "an example" to those who follow; and those who follow imitate those who go before.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)