Isaiah 44 Reina-Valera 1909
Notes on this text (1)
- Spelling of 1909 (e.g. "fué", "á").
1 AHORA pues oye, Jacob, siervo mío, y [tú], Israel, á quien yo escogí.
1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 Así dice Jehová, Hacedor tuyo, y el que te formó desde el vientre, el cual te ayudará: No temas, siervo mío Jacob, y tú, Jeshurun, á quien yo escogí.
2 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 Porque yo derramaré aguas sobre el secadal, y ríos sobre la [tierra] árida: mi espíritu derramaré sobre tu generación, y mi bendición sobre tus renuevos:
3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
4 Y brotarán entre hierba, como sauces junto á las riberas de las aguas.
4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
5 Este dirá: Yo soy de Jehová; el otro se llamará del nombre de Jacob; y otro escribirá con su mano, A Jehová, y se apellidará con el nombre de Israel.
5 One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
6 Así dice Jehová, Rey de Israel, y su Redentor, Jehová de los ejércitos: Yo el primero, y yo el postrero, y fuera de mí no hay Dios.
6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
7 ¿Y quién llamará como yo, y denunciará esto, y lo ordenará por mí, desde que hice el pueblo antiguo? Anúncienles lo que viene, y lo que está por venir.
7 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.
8 No temáis, ni os amedrentéis: ¿no te lo hice oir desde antiguo, y te lo dije? Luego vosotros sois mis testigos. No hay Dios sino yo. No hay Fuerte: no conozco ninguno.
8 Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”
9 Los formadores de imágenes de talla, todos ellos son vanidad, y lo más precioso de ellos para nada es útil; y ellos mismos para su confusión son testigos, que ellos ni ven ni entienden.
9 Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
10 ¿Quién formó un dios, ó quién fundó una estatua que para nada es de provecho?
10 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
11 He aquí que todos sus compañeros serán avergonzados; porque los mismos artífices son de los hombres. Todos ellos se juntarán, estarán, se asombrarán, y serán avergonzados á una.
11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
12 El herrero [tomará] la tenaza, obrará en las ascuas, darále forma con los martillos, y trabajará en ella con la fuerza de su brazo: tiene luego hambre, y le faltan las fuerzas; no beberá agua, y se desmaya.
12 The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
13 El carpintero tiende la regla, señala aquélla con almagre, lábrala con los cepillos, dale figura con el compás, hácela en forma de varón, á semejanza de hombre hermoso, para estar en casa.
13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
14 Cortaráse cedros, y tomará encina y alcornoque, y entre los árboles del bosque se esforzará; plantará pino, que se críe con la lluvia.
14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.
15 De él se servirá luego el hombre para quemar, y tomará de ellos para calentarse; encenderá también [el horno], y cocerá panes: hará además un dios, y lo adorará; fabricará un ídolo, y arrodillaráse delante de él.
15 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
16 Parte del [leño] quemará en el fuego; con parte de él comerá carne, aderezará asado, y se saciará; después se calentará, y dirá: ¡Oh! heme calentado, he visto el fuego;
16 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
17 Y torna su sobrante en un dios, en su escultura; humíllase delante de ella, adórala, y ruégale diciendo: Líbrame, que mi dios eres tú.
17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
18 No supieron ni entendieron: porque encostrados están sus ojos para no ver, y su corazón para no entender.
18 They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
19 No discurre para consigo, no tiene sentido ni entendimiento para decir: Parte de esto quemé en el fuego, y sobre sus brasas cocí pan, asé carne, y comíla; ¿he de tornar en una abominación lo restante de ello? ¿delante de un tronco de árbol tengo de humillarme?
19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
20 De ceniza se apacienta; su corazón engañado le desvía, para que no libre su alma, ni diga: ¿No hay una mentira á mi mano derecha?
20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
21 Acuérdate de estas cosas, oh Jacob, é Israel, pues que tú mi siervo eres: Yo te formé; siervo mío eres tú: Israel, no me olvides.
21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
22 Yo deshice como á nube tus rebeliones, y como á niebla tus pecados: tórnate á mí, porque yo te redimí.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
23 Cantad loores, oh cielos, porque Jehová lo hizo; gritad con júbilo, lugares bajos de la tierra; prorrumpid, montes, en alabanza; bosque, y todo árbol que en él está: porque Jehová redimió á Jacob, y en Israel será glorificado.
23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
24 Así dice Jehová, tu Redentor, y formador tuyo desde el vientre: Yo Jehová, que lo hago todo, que extiendo solo los cielos, que extiendo la tierra por mí mismo;
24 Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
25 Que deshago las señales de los adivinos, y enloquezco á los agoreros; que hago tornar atrás los sabios, y desvanezco su sabiduría;
25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
26 Que despierta la palabra de su siervo, y cumple el consejo de sus mensajeros; que dice á Jerusalem: Serás habitada; y á las ciudades de Judá: Reedificadas serán, y sus ruinas levantaré;
26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’
27 Que dice al profundo: Sécate, y tus ríos haré secar;
27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’
28 Que dice de Ciro: [Es] mi pastor, y cumplirá todo lo que yo quiero, en diciendo á Jerusalem, Serás edificada; y al templo: Serás fundado.
28 who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 41:8; Romans 11:5–6; Jeremiah 30:10; Psalm 105:6; Hebrews 3:7–8
- 2 Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 46:3–4; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 43:7
- 3 Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17; Isaiah 59:21; John 7:37–39; Proverbs 1:23
- 4 Isaiah 58:11; Psalm 1:3; Psalm 92:13–15; Ezekiel 17:5; Psalm 137:1–2
- 5 Zechariah 13:9; Deuteronomy 26:17–19; Nehemiah 9:38–10:29; 1 Peter 2:9; Galatians 6:16
- 6 Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 43:10–11; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 22:13; Isaiah 44:8
- 7 Isaiah 41:26; Isaiah 41:22; Isaiah 46:9–10; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 43:9
- 8 Isaiah 43:10; 1 Samuel 2:2; Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39; John 10:30
- 9 Isaiah 41:24; Jeremiah 10:14–15; Habakkuk 2:18–20; Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 41:29
- 10 Jeremiah 10:5; Habakkuk 2:18; Acts 19:26; Daniel 3:1; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 11 Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 45:16; Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 1:29; Acts 19:24–34
- 12 Isaiah 41:6–7; Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 46:6–7; Jeremiah 10:3–11; Habakkuk 2:13
- 13 Judges 17:4–5; Deuteronomy 4:16–18; Psalm 115:5–7; Romans 1:23; Acts 17:29
- 14 Isaiah 40:20; Jeremiah 10:3–8; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 4:12
- 15 2 Chronicles 25:14; Judges 2:19; Revelation 9:20; Isaiah 45:20; Isaiah 44:10
- 17 Isaiah 45:20; Daniel 3:29; 1 Kings 18:26; Isaiah 37:38; Isaiah 36:19–20
- 18 Isaiah 6:9–10; 2 Corinthians 4:3–4; John 12:39–40; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; Jeremiah 5:21
- 19 Deuteronomy 27:15; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:5; Isaiah 5:13; Isaiah 45:20
- 20 Hosea 12:1; Psalm 102:9; Romans 1:28; Job 15:31; Romans 1:25
- 21 Isaiah 44:1–2; Isaiah 49:15–16; Isaiah 46:8–9; Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 43:1
- 22 Isaiah 43:25; 1 Corinthians 6:20; Acts 3:18–19; Isaiah 43:1; 1 Peter 1:18–19
- 23 Ephesians 1:6–7; Revelation 5:8–14; Psalm 98:7–8; Revelation 19:1–6; Psalm 69:34
- 24 Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 45:18; Revelation 5:9
- 25 Psalm 33:10; Job 5:12–14; 2 Samuel 15:31; Jeremiah 50:36; Isaiah 47:12–14
- 26 1 Kings 18:36–38; Isaiah 42:9; Acts 2:25–28; 2 Peter 1:19–21; Nehemiah 1:3
- 27 Jeremiah 51:36; Jeremiah 50:38; Isaiah 42:15; Revelation 16:12; Jeremiah 51:32
- 28 2 Chronicles 36:22; Isaiah 45:1; Daniel 10:1; Ezra 6:3–18; Isaiah 45:13
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And this shall come to pass through the loving-kindness of God, who says to you, Behold, I will blot out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud thy sins.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
However, a time will come, when all shall be consumed by fire; as Isaiah says of the God of the universe in these words, "That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers." Reject then the foolish wisdom of this world, and receive with me the more simple but infallible doctrine of truth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)