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1 ¡Escuchen, silenciosas ante mí, oh tierras de ultramar! Presenten sus más sólidos argumentos. Adelante, tienen la palabra. El tribunal está listo para su proceso.
1 “Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
2 ¿Quién ha incitado a este desde el oriente, que encuentra la victoria a cada paso? ¿Quién será, sino el Señor? Dios le ha dado victoria sobre muchas naciones, y le ha permitido pisotear a reyes y atravesar con la espada ejércitos enteros.
2 Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
3 Él los persigue y marcha adelante libre de peligro, aunque ande por sendas desconocidas.
3 He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 ¿Quién ha realizado tales proezas, dirigiendo los asuntos de las generaciones de los seres humanos conforme estas se suceden? ¡Yo, el Señor, el primero y el último! ¡Sólo yo soy!
4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
5 Las tierras de ultramar observan aterrorizadas y esperan noticias de las nuevas campañas de Ciro. Naciones remotas tiemblan y se movilizan para la guerra.
5 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
6 Cada varón anima a su vecino diciendo: «No te preocupes, no triunfará».
6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
7 Pero van presurosos a hacerse un nuevo ídolo, el tallador corre al orfebre y el forjador ayuda en el yunque. «Muy bien», dicen, «está saliendo muy bien. Ahora podemos soldarle los brazos». Cuidadosamente le pegan las extremidades y luego aseguran el monigote en su sitio para que no se caiga.
7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
8 ¡Pero tú, oh Israel, eres mío, mi pueblo elegido, porque eres la descendencia de Abraham, y él fue amigo mío!
8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
9 Te he llamado desde los confines de la tierra y he dicho que sólo a mí has de servir, pues yo te he elegido y no te desecharé.
9 you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’
10 No temas, pues yo estoy contigo, no te desanimes. Yo soy tu Dios, yo te fortaleceré, yo te ayudaré, yo te sostendré con mi triunfante mano diestra.
10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 ¡Mira, todos tus furiosos enemigos están echados, confusos y esparcidos! Todo el que se te oponga morirá.
11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
12 En vano los buscarás, habrán desaparecido.
12 You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing.
13 Yo te sostengo tomándote de la mano derecha —yo, el Señor Dios tuyo— y te digo: ¡No tengas temor; estoy aquí para ayudarte!
13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
14 Aunque seas despreciado, no temas, oh Israel, porque yo te auxiliaré. Yo soy el Señor, tu Redentor; yo soy el Santo de Israel.
14 Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15 Serás nuevo instrumento trillador de agudos dientes para destrozar a todos los enemigos, convirtiendo en paja los montes.
15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
16 Los lanzarás al aire, el viento los arrastrará, los torbellinos los esparcirán. Y estarán rebosantes de júbilo del Señor, se gloriarán en el Dios de Israel.
16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 Cuando los pobres y menesterosos busquen agua sin hallarla, y tengan la lengua reseca de sed, yo responderé cuando clamen a mí. Yo, el Dios de Israel, no los abandonaré jamás.
17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 Abriré para ellos ríos en las altas mesetas. Les daré fuentes de aguas en los valles. En los desiertos habrá estanques de agua, y ríos alimentados por manantiales correrán por la tierra seca y sedienta.
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 Yo plantaré árboles —cedros, mirtos, olivos, cipreses, abetos y pinos— en la tierra estéril.
19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
20 Todos verán este milagro y comprenderán que es Dios quien lo hizo, el Santo de Israel.
20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 ¿Pueden sus ídolos presentar tales obras? ¡Que vengan y muestren lo que pueden hacer! dice Dios, el Rey de Israel.
21 Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
22 Que procuren decirnos qué ocurrió en el pasado lejano o qué guarda el futuro.
22 “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
23 ¡Sí, a la prueba! ¡Si son dioses, dígannos lo que va a ocurrir en el porvenir, o realicen algún milagro que nos deje atónitos, estupefactos!
23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
24 ¡Pero no! ¡Son menos que nada y nada pueden hacer! ¡Al que los elija, habría que examinarle la cabeza!
24 Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.
25 Pero yo he incitado (a Ciro) desde el norte y el este; él se lanzará contra las naciones, invocará mi nombre y yo le daré victoria sobre reyes y príncipes. Él los pisoteará como alfarero que anda sobre la arcilla.
25 “I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 ¿Quién sino yo les dijo que esto iba a ocurrir? ¿Qué otro lo predijo, forzándolos a reconocer que tenía razón? ¡Nadie más! ¡Ningún otro dijo nada!
26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’? Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
27 Yo fui el primero que dijo a Jerusalén. «¡Mira, mira! ¡Ya viene el auxilio!».
27 I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
28 Ninguno de sus ídolos les dijo esto, ninguno respondió cuando yo pregunté.
28 When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask, can answer a word.
29 Fíjense, todos son objetos ridículos e indignos. Sus ídolos son tan vacíos como el viento.
29 Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 1:18; Habakkuk 2:20; Zechariah 2:13; Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 41:6–7
- 2 Isaiah 45:1; 2 Samuel 22:43; Ezra 1:2; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 40:24
- 3 Isaiah 57:2; Job 5:24
- 4 Isaiah 48:12; Revelation 22:13; Revelation 1:17; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:6–7
- 5 Ezekiel 26:15–16; Psalm 67:7; Joshua 5:1; Psalm 65:8; Psalm 66:3
- 6 1 Samuel 4:7–9; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 44:12; Daniel 3:1–7
- 7 Isaiah 40:19–20; Daniel 3:1–7; Isaiah 44:12–15; Judges 18:24; Jeremiah 10:3–5
- 8 James 2:23; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 14:2; 2 Chronicles 20:7; John 15:14–15
- 9 1 Samuel 12:22; Psalm 94:14; Deuteronomy 7:6–7; James 2:5; Joshua 24:2–4
- 10 Joshua 1:9; Isaiah 43:1–2; Romans 8:31; Deuteronomy 31:6–8; Philippians 4:13
- 11 Exodus 23:22; Isaiah 45:24; Revelation 3:9; Isaiah 54:17; Acts 16:39
- 12 Psalm 37:35–36; Job 20:7–9; Isaiah 17:14
- 13 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 73:23; Psalm 63:8; Psalm 109:31; Isaiah 42:6
- 14 Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 43:14; Psalm 22:6; Jeremiah 50:34; Job 25:6
- 15 Micah 4:13; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Zechariah 4:7; Habakkuk 3:12; Isaiah 21:10
- 16 Jeremiah 51:2; Isaiah 61:10–11; Isaiah 45:24–25; Habakkuk 3:18; Jeremiah 9:23–24
- 17 Isaiah 55:1; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 30:19; Matthew 5:6; Psalm 72:12–13
- 18 Isaiah 35:6–7; Psalm 107:35; Isaiah 58:11; Isaiah 30:25; Revelation 7:17
- 19 Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 37:31–32; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 60:13; Isaiah 60:21
- 20 Job 12:9; Psalm 109:27; Isaiah 43:21; Isaiah 44:23; Exodus 9:16
- 21 Job 23:3–4; Job 38:3; Micah 6:1–2
- 22 Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 48:14; Isaiah 42:9
- 23 John 13:19; Isaiah 42:9; Jeremiah 10:5; Isaiah 44:7–8; Isaiah 46:9–10
- 24 1 Corinthians 8:4; Psalm 115:8; Isaiah 41:29; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 10:8
- 25 Isaiah 41:2; 2 Samuel 22:43; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 46:10–11; Zechariah 10:5
- 26 Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 45:21; Habakkuk 2:18–20; Isaiah 43:9
- 27 Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 52:7; Isaiah 44:28; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 48:3
- 28 Isaiah 63:5; Isaiah 50:2; Daniel 2:10–11; Isaiah 40:13–14; Daniel 5:8
- 29 Jeremiah 5:13; Isaiah 41:24; Isaiah 44:9–20; Psalm 115:4–8; Habakkuk 2:18
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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