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1 ¡Consuelen, sí, consuelen a mi pueblo!, dice el Dios de ustedes.
1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
2 Hablen tiernamente a Jerusalén y díganle que han terminado sus días de dolor y amargura. Sus pecados han sido perdonados, y el Señor le dará el doble de bendiciones comparado con el castigo que ha recibido.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
3 ¡Escuchen! Oigo a alguien gritar: ―¡Abran para el Señor un camino derecho y parejo a través del desierto!
3 The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
4 ¡Rellenen los valles y nivelen las colinas, enderecen las sendas torcidas y allanen los sitios ásperos del camino!
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
5 ¡La humanidad entera contemplará la gloria del Señor! El Señor lo ha dicho y se cumplirá.
5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
6 La voz ahora dice: ―¡Grita! ―¿Qué debo gritar? —pregunté. ―Di a gritos que todo hombre y mujer es como hierba que se marchita, y que toda su belleza se aja como las flores que languidecen.
6 The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 La hierba se seca, la flor se marchita bajo el aliento de Dios. Igual le ocurre al frágil ser humano.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
8 La hierba se seca, y se marchita la flor, pero la Palabra de nuestro Dios permanecerá viva para siempre.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
9 ¡Oh heraldo de buenas noticias, grítale a Jerusalén desde la cumbre de los montes! ¡Grítale más alto! ¡Sin temor! Diles a las ciudades de Judá: «¡Ya viene Dios!».
9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
10 Sí, el Señor Dios viene con gran potencia, gobernará con tremendo poder. Miren, trae consigo su recompensa, a cada cual le dará según sus hechos.
10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
11 Como pastor apacentará su rebaño, llevará en brazos los corderillos y suavemente guiará las ovejas con cría.
11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
12 ¿Qué otro ha tenido los océanos en sus manos y medido el cielo con su regla? ¿Qué otro conoce el peso de la tierra y pesa las montañas y colinas?
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 ¿Quién puede dar consejos al Espíritu del Señor o servirle de maestro o consejero?
13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
14 ¿Ha necesitado él alguna vez consejo de alguien? ¿Ha requerido él instrucción respecto a lo conveniente y lo mejor?
14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
15 No, porque comparados con él, los pueblos del mundo nada son, son apenas una gota en el mar o polvo en la balanza. Él levanta las islas como si no pesaran nada.
15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
16 Ni todos los bosques del Líbano contienen leña suficiente para consumir un sacrificio que baste para honrarlo, ni son suficientes todos sus animales para ofrecérselos a nuestro Dios.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 Para él todas las naciones son como nada, menos que nada, son a su vista simple vacío y espuma.
17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 ¿Cómo describir a Dios? ¿Con qué podemos compararlo?
18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 ¿Con un ídolo? ¿Con una estatuilla hecha de molde, enchapada en oro y con cadenas de plata en torno al pecho?
19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
20 Quien sea demasiado pobre para comprar dioses así de lujosos, hallará un tronco de árbol sin podrir y pagará para que un hombre le talle el rostro, y el leño se convierte en dios suyo. ¡Un dios que ni siquiera puede moverse!
20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
21 ¿Tan ignorantes son? ¿Tan sordos son a las palabras de Dios, a las palabras que él emitió antes que existieran los mundos? ¿Nunca han oído ni entendido?
21 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 Dios es quien está sentado por sobre el círculo de la tierra. ¡La gente aquí abajo ha de parecerle saltamontes! Dios es quien extiende el cielo como cortina y de él hace su tienda.
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
23 Dios sentencia a los grandes del mundo y los reduce a nada.
23 who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
24 Apenas han comenzado, apenas comienzan a echar raíces cuando sopla sobre ellos, marchitando sus obras, y el viento se los lleva como paja.
24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
25 ¿Con quién me compararán? ¿A quién me dan por igual?, pregunta el Santo.
25 “To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 ¡Alcen los ojos a los cielos! Quien creó los planetas y las estrellas, las llama a cada una con nombre cariñoso y las cuenta para cerciorarse de que ninguna se ha perdido o extraviado.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
27 ¡Oh Jacob, oh Israel! ¿Cómo pueden decir que el Señor no ve sus tribulaciones y no procede con justicia?
27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
28 ¿No comprenden todavía? ¿Aún no saben que el Dios eterno, el Creador de los sitios más lejanos de la tierra, jamás se fatiga ni desmaya? Nadie puede sondear las profundidades de su entendimiento.
28 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
29 Él da fuerzas al cansado y extenuado, y vigor al débil.
29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 Hasta los jóvenes quedan sin aliento y los muchachos se dan por vencidos.
30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
31 Pero los que esperan en el Señor renovarán sus fuerzas: emprenderán vuelo como si tuvieran alas de águilas, correrán y no se cansarán, caminarán y no desfallecerán.
31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
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 Corinthians 1:4; Isaiah 51:12; Isaiah 51:3; Zephaniah 3:14–17; Zechariah 1:13
- 2 Zechariah 9:12; Isaiah 61:7; Hosea 2:14; Jeremiah 33:8–9; Revelation 18:6
- 3 Malachi 3:1; Mark 1:2–5; John 1:23; Matthew 3:1–3; Luke 1:16–17
- 4 Luke 3:5; Ezekiel 21:26; Luke 18:14; Isaiah 42:15–16; Isaiah 45:2
- 5 Habakkuk 2:14; Isaiah 52:10; Joel 2:28; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Luke 3:6
- 6 Psalm 103:15–16; 1 Peter 1:24–25; Psalm 102:11; James 1:10–11; Job 14:2
- 7 Job 41:21
- 8 Mark 13:31; Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:25; Psalm 119:89–91; Matthew 5:18
- 9 Isaiah 52:7–8; Ephesians 6:19; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 61:1
- 10 Revelation 22:12; Isaiah 62:11; Revelation 17:14; Matthew 28:18; Isaiah 49:4
- 11 Revelation 7:17; Psalm 23:1–6; Micah 5:4; Ezekiel 34:23; John 10:11–16
- 12 Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:10–12; Psalm 102:25–26; Job 38:4–11; Isaiah 48:13
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:16; Romans 11:34; Job 36:22–23; Job 21:22; Luke 10:22
- 14 Job 21:22; Colossians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 12:4–6; James 1:17
- 15 Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 40:22; Job 34:14–15; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 11:11
- 16 Micah 6:6–7; Psalm 50:9–12; Psalm 40:6; Hebrews 10:5–10
- 17 Psalm 62:9; Daniel 4:34–35; Isaiah 29:7
- 18 Isaiah 46:5; 1 Samuel 2:2; Isaiah 40:25; Exodus 15:11; Acts 17:29
- 19 Jeremiah 10:9; Isaiah 46:6–7; Exodus 32:2–4; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Psalm 115:4–8
- 20 Jeremiah 10:3–4; Isaiah 41:7; Isaiah 46:7; Isaiah 2:8–9; Daniel 5:23
- 21 Isaiah 46:8; Isaiah 48:13; Acts 14:17; Romans 1:19–21; Psalm 50:6
- 22 Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 10:12
- 23 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:21; Jeremiah 25:18–27; Isaiah 34:12; Isaiah 24:21–22
- 24 Isaiah 41:16; Isaiah 17:13; Jeremiah 23:19; Haggai 1:9; Proverbs 1:27
- 25 Isaiah 40:18; Deuteronomy 4:15–18; Deuteronomy 4:33; Deuteronomy 5:8
- 26 Colossians 1:16–17; Jeremiah 32:17–19; Isaiah 48:13; Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 147:4–5
- 27 Isaiah 49:4; Luke 18:7–8; Isaiah 49:14; Job 27:2
- 28 Romans 11:33–34; Psalm 147:5; 1 Timothy 1:17; Isaiah 55:8–9; Philippians 1:6
- 29 Isaiah 41:10; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Colossians 1:11; Zechariah 10:12
- 30 Amos 2:14; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 33:16; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 9:17
- 31 Lamentations 3:25–26; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Psalm 27:13–14; Psalm 103:5; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10
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).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
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