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1 Durante el reinado de Acaz, hijo de Jotán y nieto de Uzías, Jerusalén fue atacada por el rey Rezín de Siria y el rey Pecaj de Israel, hijo de Remalías. Pero no la tomaron, la ciudad resistió.
1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 Sin embargo, cuando a la corte real llegó la noticia, «Siria está aliada con Israel contra nosotros», el corazón del rey y de su pueblo tembló de miedo como las hojas del bosque se estremecen bajo la tormenta.
2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3 El Señor le ordenó a Isaías: Ve al encuentro del rey Acaz en compañía de tu hijo Sear Yasub. Lo hallarás al final del acueducto que va de la fuente de Gihón al estanque de arriba, junto al camino que baja al campo del blanqueador.
3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
4 Dile que no se angustie más, dice el Señor. Dile que no tiene por qué asustarse de la furia de esos dos fracasados, Rezín y Pecaj.
4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Sí, cierto, los reyes de Siria e Israel vienen contra él. Los enemigos dicen:
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
6 «Invadiremos a Judá y llenaremos de pánico a su pueblo. Luego pelearemos hasta llegar a Jerusalén y pondremos por rey suyo al hijo de Tabel».
6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
7 Pero el Señor Dios dice: Este plan no triunfará,
7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
8 porque Damasco seguirá siendo capital sólo de Siria, y el reino de Rezín no extenderá sus fronteras. Y dentro de sesenta y cinco años también Efraín será aplastado y quebrantado.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
9 Samaria es la capital de Efraín solamente, y el poder del rey Pecaj no aumentará. ¿No me creen? Si quieren mi protección, tienen que aprender a creer lo que digo.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
10 No mucho después de esto, el Señor envió este otro mensaje al rey Acaz:
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 Acaz, pídeme una señal para demostrarte que en realidad aplastaré a tus enemigos como lo tengo dicho. Pide lo que quieras que haga en cualquier lugar del globo terraqueo.
11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
12 Pero el rey se negó y dijo: ―¡Jamás importunaré al Señor con nada semejante!
12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
13 Entonces Isaías respondió: ―Oh casa de David, no te basta con agotarme la paciencia, ¡tienes que agotársela también a Dios!
13 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
14◆ Bueno, el Señor mismo elegirá la señal: ¡Una joven dará a luz un niño! y ella le pondrá por nombre Emanuel (que significa “Dios está con nosotros”).
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Para cuando este niño sea destetado y pueda distinguir entre el bien y el mal, los dos reyes a quienes tanto temes —los reyes de Israel y Siria— habrán muerto.
15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
16 Not in this translation
16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
17 «Pero más adelante el Señor mandará terrible maldición sobre ti, tu nación y tu familia. Habrá tanto terror como nunca se vio desde la división del imperio de Salomón en los reinos de Israel y Judá. ¡El poderoso rey de Asiria vendrá con su gran ejército!».
17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
18 En aquel tiempo el Señor silbará llamando al ejército del Alto Egipto y al de Asiria, para que cual moscas desciendan sobre ti y te destruyan como si fueran abejas de aguijón mortal.
18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 Acudirán en hordas inmensas que se esparcirán por todo el país, hasta los valles desolados, las cuevas y los espinales, así como hacia toda la tierra fértil.
19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
20 En aquel día el Señor tomará esta «navaja», estos mercenarios asirios que contrataste para salvarte, y la usará para rasurarte de cuanto posees: tu tierra, tus cosechas y tu pueblo.
20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
21 Cuando finalmente dejen de saquear, toda la nación será sólo un pastizal. Y afortunado será el granjero a quien al menos le quede una vaca y dos ovejas. Pero los abundantes pastos producirán mucha leche y todos los que queden se alimentarán de leche cuajada y miel silvestre.
21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.
22 Not in this translation
22 It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.
23 En aquel tiempo los lozanos viñedos se convertirán en zarzales.
23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.
24 Toda la tierra será un vasto espinar, coto de caza donde abunden los animales salvajes.
24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
25 Nadie irá a las fértiles laderas donde antes había huertos, pues estarán cubiertas de espinos. Vacas, ovejas y cabras pastarán allí.
25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Ahaz
A faithless king who courted Assyria and even sacrificed his own son.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 16; 2 Chron. 28; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:9
Shear-jashub
Isaiah's son whom the LORD told him to bring to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 7:3
Tabeal
Named only as the father of a man Aram and Ephraim planned to install as king over Judah.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 7:6
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:1; Isaiah 7:4–9; Isaiah 8:6; Psalm 83:3–5
- 2 Isaiah 8:12; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 9:9; Proverbs 28:1; 2 Kings 7:6–7
- 3 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 36:2; Romans 9:27; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 10:21
- 4 Isaiah 35:4; Lamentations 3:26; Deuteronomy 20:3; Matthew 24:6; Isaiah 30:15
- 5 Psalm 83:3–4; Zechariah 1:15; Psalm 2:2; Nahum 1:11
- 7 Isaiah 8:10; Lamentations 3:37; Isaiah 46:10–11; Psalm 33:11; Proverbs 21:30
- 8 Isaiah 17:1–3; Genesis 14:15; 2 Samuel 8:6; Hosea 1:6–10; 2 Kings 17:5–23
- 9 Hebrews 11:6; Romans 11:20; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 1 John 5:10; Acts 27:25
- 10 Isaiah 8:5; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 10:20; Hosea 13:2; Isaiah 1:13
- 11 Isaiah 37:30; Isaiah 38:7–8; 2 Kings 19:29; Judges 6:36–40; Isaiah 38:22
- 12 2 Kings 16:15; Acts 5:9; Ezekiel 33:31; Malachi 3:15; Deuteronomy 6:16
- 13 Isaiah 43:24; Malachi 2:17; Hebrews 3:10; Jeremiah 6:11; Isaiah 63:10
- 14 Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 9:6; Luke 1:31; John 1:1–2; John 1:14
- 15 Isaiah 7:22; Amos 5:15; Philippians 1:9–10; Matthew 3:4; Romans 12:9
- 17 Isaiah 8:7–8; Isaiah 10:5–6; Isaiah 36:1–22; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 32:1–33
- 18 Isaiah 5:26; Deuteronomy 1:44; Isaiah 31:1; Deuteronomy 7:20; Joshua 24:12
- 19 Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 16:16; Isaiah 2:21; Micah 7:17; 2 Chronicles 33:11
- 20 Isaiah 8:7; Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 5:1–4; Isaiah 10:15; Jeremiah 27:6–7
- 21 Isaiah 5:17; Jeremiah 39:10; Isaiah 17:2; Isaiah 37:30; Isaiah 7:25
- 23 Isaiah 5:6; Song of Songs 8:11–12; Matthew 21:33; Hebrews 6:8; Jeremiah 4:26
- 24 Genesis 27:3
- 25 Isaiah 13:20–22; Isaiah 17:2; Isaiah 5:17; Isaiah 7:21–22; Zephaniah 2:6
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Isaiah 7:14: “a virgin” or “the young woman”?
The Hebrew text of Isaiah 7:14 says ha-almah, “the young woman.” The Greek Septuagint, translated by Jews before the time of Christ, says hē parthenos, “the virgin,” and St Matthew quotes that Greek wording (Matthew 1:23). The Orthodox Church reads the Septuagint here, as the Apostles did. The faith in the virgin birth does not rest on one Hebrew word, but the word still deserves an honest look.
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).
How these were chosen
“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 hear again how Isaiah in express words foretold that He should be born of a virgin; for he spoke thus: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bring forth a son, and they shall say for His name, God with us.' " For things which were incredible and seemed impossible with men, these God predicted by the Spirit of prophecy …
5. And when He says, "Hear, O house of David," He performed the part of one indicating that He whom God promised David that He would raise up from the fruit of his belly (ventris) an eternal King, is the same who was born of the Virgin, herself of the lineage of David.
For so had the prophet foretold: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which, being interpreted, is, God with us." He did many miracles that He might commend God in Himself, some of which, even as many as seemed sufficient to proclaim Him, are contained in the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For he doth not merely say, "Behold, the Virgin shall be with child," but having first said, "Behold, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign," then he subjoins, "Behold, the Virgin shall be with child." Whereas, if she that was to give birth was not a virgin, but this happened in the way of marriage, what sort of sign …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
the virgin shall conceive in her womb, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)