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1 ¡Reúnanse, estén atentos, gente desvergonzada!
1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
2 Háganlo cuando aún hay tiempo, antes de que comience el juicio de Dios y ustedes desaparezcan como si fueran paja llevada por el viento; antes de que caiga sobre ustedes la gran cólera del Señor y el día terrible de su castigo comience.
2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
3 Ustedes, los humildes del país, los que aun procuran vivir de acuerdo a las instrucciones del Señor, practiquen la justicia y vivan con humildad. Quizá así puedan ser salvados el día en que el Señor desate su castigo.
3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
4 Gaza, Ascalón, Asdod y Ecrón, ciudades filisteas, también serán castigadas y dejadas en completa desolación.
4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
5 ¡Pobre de ti, Filistea, que vives en la costa y en la tierra de Canaán, porque el castigo del Señor también te alcanzará, de modo que serás destruida y ninguno de tus habitantes quedará con vida!
5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.
6 Las tierras de la costa se convertirán en praderas, en campo de pastores y de rediles de ovejas.
6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 Allí será reubicado el pequeño grupo de sobrevivientes de Judá. Reposarán en las casas abandonadas de Ascalón. Y es que el Señor Dios visitará a su pueblo con su misericordia y nuevamente restaurará su prosperidad.
7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them and restore them.
8 «He oído las burlas de Moab y de Amón, que insultaban a mi pueblo e invadían su territorio.
8 I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
9 Por lo tanto, el Señor Todopoderoso ha jurado que Moab y Amón serán destruidas como lo fueron Sodoma y Gomorra, y sus lugares quedarán tan devastados que parecerán campos de espinales, minas de sal donde nada crece y sólo reina eterna desolación. Los que queden de mi pueblo les quitarán sus bienes y se apoderarán de su tierra».
9 Therefore, as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
10 Este es su castigo por la gran soberbia que mostraron contra mi pueblo, porque se han burlado del pueblo del Señor Todopoderoso.
10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
11 El Señor les hará cosas terribles. Destruirá todos los dioses de las potencias extranjeras, y luego todos los habitantes de la tierra, hasta los que viven muy lejos, rendirán homenaje al Señor, cada uno en su propio país.
11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
12 «También ustedes, los de Etiopía, serán muertos por el ataque poderoso del Señor».
12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
13 El Señor también castigará al país del norte; sí, él destruirá a Asiria y hará que Nínive, su gran capital, quede convertida en tierra desolada como si fuera un desierto.
13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
14 La que fuera ciudad orgullosa se convertirá en tierra de pastoreo para ovejas. Toda clase de animales salvajes pondrán ahí su guarida. El erizo tendrá allí su madriguera. Los buitres y los búhos vivirán entre las ruinas de los palacios, cantando desde las ventanas desvencijadas. Los cuervos graznarán desde sus puertas carcomidas. Todo su entablado de cedro quedará a la intemperie, a merced del viento.
14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
15 Este será el destino de la ciudad grande y próspera que vivió tan segura y que decía de sí misma: «En todo el mundo no hay ciudad tan grande como yo». Pero ahora, vean cómo ha quedado convertida en un lugar de completa ruina, como guarida de animales. Todo el que pase por ella se burlará o meneará la cabeza sin creer lo que ve.
15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 1:14; 2 Chronicles 20:4; Nehemiah 9:1; Nehemiah 8:1; Esther 4:16
- 2 Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 4:11; Hosea 13:3; Psalm 1:4; Isaiah 17:13
- 3 Amos 5:14–15; Isaiah 26:20–21; Psalm 76:9; Jeremiah 29:12–13; Psalm 22:26
- 4 Zechariah 9:5–7; Amos 1:6–8; Jeremiah 47:1–7; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 6:4
- 5 Ezekiel 25:16; Jeremiah 47:7; Joshua 13:3; Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1
- 6 Isaiah 5:17; Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14–15; Ezekiel 25:5
- 7 Exodus 4:31; Zephaniah 3:20; Micah 5:3–8; Luke 1:68; Ezekiel 39:25
- 8 Psalm 83:4–7; Ezekiel 25:3–11; Amos 1:13; Jeremiah 48:27–29; Jeremiah 49:1
- 9 Isaiah 15:1–9; Isaiah 11:14; Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 49:18
- 10 Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:29; Zephaniah 2:8; Exodus 9:17; Daniel 4:37
- 11 Micah 4:1–3; Zechariah 14:9–21; Zechariah 13:2; Zechariah 2:11; Isaiah 2:2–4
- 12 Ezekiel 30:4–9; Isaiah 18:1–7; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Jeremiah 46:9–10; Isaiah 13:5
- 13 Nahum 3:7; Nahum 3:18–19; Nahum 1:1; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:16
- 14 Amos 9:1; Isaiah 34:11–17; Jeremiah 22:14; Isaiah 13:19–22; Revelation 18:2
- 15 Ezekiel 28:2; Isaiah 47:7–8; Nahum 3:19; Ezekiel 28:9; Isaiah 22:2
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… assemble the nations, and gather together the kingdoms." And again he says, "The Lord will be terrible upon them, and will exterminate all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship Him every man from his place, even all the isles of the nations." And a little after he says, "Then will I turn to the people a tongue, …
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