Isaiah · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Isaiah 40 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 ¡Consuelen, consuelen a mi pueblo, dice su ʼElohim!
1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
2 ¡Hablen al corazón de Jerusalén! ¡Proclámenle que su dura milicia terminó, y su culpa fue cancelada! Pues de mano de Yavé recibió el doble por todos sus pecados.
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 Una voz clama: ¡Preparen el camino a Yavé en el desierto! ¡Allanen una calzada a nuestro ʼElohim en la soledad!
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 Todo valle sea levantado, toda montaña y colina rebajadas, lo torcido se enderece, y lo escabroso se allane.
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 gloria de Yavé se manifestará. Todo humano juntamente la verá, porque habló la boca de Yavé.
5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
6 Una voz dice: ¡Proclama! Y respondí: ¿Qué proclamaré? Que todo humano es como hierba, y todo su esplendor como la flor del campo.
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 Se seca la hierba. Se marchita la flor cuando el aliento de Yavé sopla sobre ellas. En verdad el pueblo es hierba.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
8 Se seca la hierba, se marchita la flor, pero la Palabra del ʼElohim nuestro permanece para siempre.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
9 ¡Súbete a una montaña alta, oh Sion, anunciadora de buenas noticias! ¡Levanta fuerte tu voz, oh Jerusalén, anunciadora de buenas noticias! ¡Levántala, no temas! Dí a las ciudades de Judá: ¡Aquí está tu ʼElohim!
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 ¡Miren: ʼAdonay Yavé viene con poder, y su brazo señorea! ¡Ciertamente su galardón viene con Él y su recompensa lo precede!
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 Apacentará su rebaño como pastor. Recogerá a los corderitos con su brazo. Los llevará en su seno, y pastoreará suavemente a las recién paridas.
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 ¿Quién midió el agua en el hueco de su mano, o calculó la extensión del cielo con su palmo y juntó el polvo de la tierra con tres dedos? ¿Quién pesó en balanza las montañas y con pesas las 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 escudriñó el Espíritu de Yavé, y le enseñó como consejero suyo?
13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?
14 ¿De quién tomó consejo, quién lo instruyó, lo adoctrinó en el camino de la justicia, le enseñó el conocimiento o le mostró el camino del discernimiento?
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 Ciertamente, las naciones le son gotas en un cubo. Valen lo que vale el polvillo de la balanza. Las islas le pesan como un grano de polvo.
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 El Líbano no basta para el fuego, ni todos sus animales alcanzan para el holocausto.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 Todas las naciones son como nada delante de Él. Son estimadas como cosa vana.
17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
18 ¿Con quién compararán a ʼEL? ¿Con cuál imagen lo compararán ustedes?
18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
19 El escultor funde una estatua, el orfebre la recubre de oro y el platero le suelda cadenillas de plata.
19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
20 El pobre escoge para ofrecerle un leño que no se pudra. Se busca un hábil tallador que le haga una estatua que no se mueva.
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 ¿No saben ni oyeron? ¿No se lo anunciaron desde un principio? ¿No lo entendieron desde la fundación del mundo?
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 Él se sienta sobre el círculo de la tierra, y sus habitantes son como saltamontes. Él extendió los cielos como una cortina y los despliega como una tienda para morar.
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 Él convierte en nada a los poderosos y a los que gobiernan la tierra en cosa vana
23 who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
24 cuando solo son plantados, son sembrados, son arraigados en la tierra, sopla sobre ellos y se marchitan. El remolino de viento los arrebata como pasto seco.
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 El Santo dice: ¿A quién me compararán ustedes, o me asemejarán?
25 “To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Levanten sus ojos a lo alto y miren: ¿Quién creó estas cosas? Él saca y cuenta sus huestes, las cuales llama por sus nombres. Ninguna faltará. Tal es la grandeza de su fuerza y la fortaleza de su poder.
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 ¿Por qué hablas, oh Jacob, y dices, oh Israel: Mi camino está oculto de Yavé? ¿Mi ʼElohim ignora mi causa?
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 lo sabes ni lo oíste? El eterno ʼElohim, Yavé, el Creador de los confines de la tierra, no se cansa ni se fatiga. Su entendimiento es insondable.
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 fortalece al cansado y aumenta la fuerza al que no tiene vigor.
29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
30 Aun los muchachos se fatigan y se cansan. Los jóvenes tropiezan y caen,
30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
31 pero los que esperan en Yavé tienen nuevas fuerzas. Levantarán las alas como águilas, correrán y no se cansarán, caminarán y no se fatigarán.
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. 1 (1886)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
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