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Isaiah 37 Free Bible Version (Spanish)

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1 Cuando Ezequías lo oyó, se rasgó las vestiduras, se vistió de cilicio y entró en el Templo del Señor.
1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
2 Envió a Eliaquim, el administrador del palacio, a Sebna, el escriba, y a los principales sacerdotes, todos vestidos de saco, a ver al profeta Isaías, hijo de Amoz.
2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 Ellos le dijeron: “Esto es lo que dice Ezequías: Hoy es un día de angustia y de castigo. Es como cuando los bebés llegan a la entrada del canal de parto, pero no hay fuerzas para darlos a luz.
3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
4 Tal vez el Señor, tu Dios, al oír el mensaje que el comandante del ejército entregó en nombre de su amo, el rey de Asiria -un mensaje enviado para insultar al Dios vivo- lo castigará por sus palabras. Por favor, reza una oración por el remanente de nosotros que aún sobrevive”.
4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5 Después de que los funcionarios de Ezequías entregaron su mensaje a Isaías,
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 éste les respondió: “Díganle a su amo: Esto es lo que dice el Señor: No te asustes por las palabras que has oído, las que usan los servidores del rey de Asiria para blasfemar contra mí.
6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Mira, voy a asustarlo: oirá un rumor y tendrá que volver a su país. Cuando esté allí lo haré matar a espada”.
7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8 El comandante del ejército asirio se marchó y regresó para reunirse con el rey de Asiria, tras oír que el rey había salido de Laquis y estaba atacando Libna.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 Senaquerib había recibido un mensaje sobre Tirhakah, rey de Etiopía, que decía: “¡Cuidado! Viene a atacarte”. Así que Senaquerib volvió a enviar mensajeros a Ezequías, diciendo:
9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 “Dile a Ezequías, rey de Judá: ‘No dejes que tu Dios, en el que confías, te engañe diciendo que Jerusalén no caerá en manos del rey de Asiria.
10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
11 ¡Mira! Has oído lo que los reyes de Asiria han hecho a todos los países que han invadido— ¡los destruyeron por completo! ¿Realmente creen que se salvarán?
11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
12 ¿Acaso los salvaron los dioses de las naciones que mis antepasados destruyeron: los dioses de Gozán, Harán, Rezef y el pueblo de Edén que vivía en Telasar?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 ¿Dónde está hoy el rey de Hamat, el rey de Arpad, el rey de la ciudad de Sefarvaim, el rey de Hena o el rey de Ivva?’”
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14 Ezequías recibió la carta de los mensajeros y la leyó. Luego subió al Templo del Señor y la abrió ante el Señor.
14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
15 Ezequías oró al Señor, diciendo:
15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
16 “Señor Todopoderoso, Dios de Israel, tú que vives sobre los querubines, sólo tú eres Dios sobre todos los reinos de la tierra, tú eres el Creador del cielo y de la tierra.
16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
17 Escucha con tus oídos, Señor, y oye; abre tus ojos, Señor, y mira. Escucha el mensaje que Senaquerib ha enviado para insultar al Dios vivo.
17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
18 “Sí, es cierto, Señor, que los reyes asirios han destruido estas naciones y sus tierras.
18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
19 Han arrojado sus dioses al fuego porque no son realmente dioses; son sólo obra de manos humanas, hechos de madera y piedra para poder destruirlos.
19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Ahora, Señor, Dios nuestro, sálvanos de él, para que todos los reinos de la tierra sepan que sólo tú, Señor, eres Dios”.
20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
21 Entonces Isaías, hijo de Amoz, envió un mensaje a Ezequías, diciendo: “Esto es lo que dice el Señor, el Dios de Israel: Como me has orado acerca de Senaquerib, rey de Asiria,
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22 ésta es la palabra del Señor que lo condena: La virgen hija de Sión te desprecia y se burla de ti; la hija de Jerusalén sacude la cabeza cuando huyes.
22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23 ¿A quién has insultado y ridiculizado? ¿Contra quién has levantado la voz? ¿A quién miraste con ojos tan orgullosos? ¡Fue contra el Santo de Israel!
23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 Por medio de tus siervos te has burlado del Señor. Dijiste: ‘Con mis numerosos carros he subido a las altas montañas, a las más lejanas cumbres del Líbano. He cortado sus cedros más altos, los mejores cipreses. He llegado a sus alturas más lejanas, a sus bosques más profundos.
24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
25 He cavado pozos y bebido agua en tierras extranjeras. Con las plantas de mis pies he secado todos los ríos de Egipto’”.
25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26 El Señor responde: “¿No te has enterado? Lo decidí hace mucho tiempo; lo planeé en los viejos tiempos. Ahora me estoy asegurando de que ocurra, de que derribes las ciudades fortificadas hasta convertirlas en montones de escombros.
26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
27 Su pueblo, impotente, está aterrorizado y humillado. Son como plantas en un campo, como brotes verdes y blandos, como hierba que brota en el tejado: están quemados antes de poder crecer.
27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
28 “Pero yo te conozco muy bien: dónde vives, cuándo entras, cuándo sales, y tu furia contra mí.
28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
29 A causa de tu furia contra mí, y porque sé cómo me faltas al respeto, voy a poner mi garfio en tu nariz y mi mordisco en tu boca, y te obligaré a volver por donde has venido”.
29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
30 “Ezequías, esta será una señal para demostrar que esto es cierto: Este año comerás lo que crezca solo. El segundo año comerás lo que crezca por sí mismo. Pero el tercer año sembrarás y cosecharás, plantarás viñas y comerás su fruto.
30 “‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 El remanente que quede de Judá revivirá, echando raíces abajo y dando frutos arriba.
31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 Porque de Jerusalén saldrá un remanente, y del monte Sión vendrán supervivientes. La intensa determinación del Señor se encargará de que esto ocurra.
32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
33 Esto es lo que dice el Señor sobre el rey de Asiria: No entrará en esta ciudad ni lanzará una flecha contra ella. No avanzará hacia ella con un escudo, ni construirá una rampa de asedio contra ella.
33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
34 Volverá por donde vino y no entrará en esta ciudad, dice el Señor.
34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
35 Yo defenderé esta ciudad y la salvaré, por mí y por mi siervo David”.
35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
36 Entonces el ángel del Señor fue al campamento asirio y mató a 185.000 de ellos. Cuando los supervivientes se despertaron por la mañana, estaban rodeados de cadáveres.
36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37 Senaquerib, rey de Asiria, se rindió y se fue. Regresó a su casa en Nínive y se quedó allí.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
38 Mientras adoraba en el templo de su dios Nisroc, sus hijos Adramelec y Sarezer lo mataron con la espada y luego huyeron a la tierra de Ararat. Su hijo Esar-hadón le sucedió como rey.
38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

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  • Adrammelech

    Son of Sennacherib who killed him

    A son of Sennacherib who with his brother Sharezer put their father to the sword in the temple of Nisroch and escaped to the land of Ararat.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38

  • Esar-haddon

    King of Assyria after Sennacherib

    Sennacherib's son, who reigned in his father's place after Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Ezra 4:2; Isaiah 37:38

  • Hezekiah

    King of Judah

    A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10

  • Sharezer

    Son of Sennacherib who killed him

    A son of Sennacherib who with his brother Adrammelech put their father to the sword in the temple of Nisroch.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38

  • Tirhakah

    King of Cush

    King of Cush about whom Sennacherib was warned that he had set out to fight him.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9

Cross references (37)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 2 Kings 19:1–37; 2 Kings 22:11; Isaiah 36:22–37:38; Ezra 9:5; Job 1:20–21
  2. 2 Isaiah 1:1; Joel 1:13; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 18:18
  3. 3 Isaiah 66:9; Hosea 13:13; 2 Kings 19:3; Psalm 50:15; Isaiah 26:17–18
  4. 4 Isaiah 36:20; Isaiah 1:9; Psalm 106:23; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 8:7–8
  5. 6 Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 35:4; Mark 5:36; 2 Chronicles 20:15–20; Isaiah 41:10–14
  6. 7 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 31:8–9; Job 15:21; Isaiah 17:13–14; 2 Kings 7:6
  7. 8 Joshua 10:29; Joshua 21:13; 2 Kings 8:22; Joshua 10:31–34; Joshua 15:39
  8. 9 Isaiah 18:1; 1 Samuel 23:27–28; Isaiah 20:5; Isaiah 37:7
  9. 10 Isaiah 36:15; 2 Kings 18:5; Psalm 22:8; 2 Chronicles 32:7–8; Matthew 27:43
  10. 11 Isaiah 36:18–20; 2 Kings 17:4–6; Isaiah 10:7–14; Isaiah 37:18–19; Isaiah 14:17
  11. 12 Genesis 11:31; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; Acts 7:2; 2 Kings 19:12
  12. 13 Jeremiah 49:23; Isaiah 10:9; 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:30–31
  13. 14 Psalm 123:1–4; 2 Kings 19:14; Psalm 62:1–3; Isaiah 37:1; Psalm 74:10
  14. 15 2 Chronicles 14:11; Daniel 9:3–4; 1 Samuel 7:8–9; 2 Chronicles 20:6–12; 2 Kings 19:15–19
  15. 16 Psalm 99:1; Exodus 25:22; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 44:24; 1 Samuel 4:4
  16. 17 2 Chronicles 6:40; Psalm 17:6; 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 74:22; Psalm 10:14–15
  17. 18 Nahum 2:11–12; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 17:24; 1 Chronicles 5:26
  18. 19 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 40:19–21; Isaiah 10:9–11; Hosea 8:6; Exodus 32:20
  19. 20 Psalm 46:10; 1 Kings 18:36–37; Psalm 83:17–18; Isaiah 42:8; Malachi 1:11
  20. 21 Isaiah 65:24; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 38:3–6; 2 Kings 19:20–21; Daniel 9:20–23
  21. 22 Job 16:4; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Psalm 9:14; Zechariah 2:10
  22. 23 Ezekiel 39:7; Daniel 5:20–23; Daniel 7:25; Ezekiel 28:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4
  23. 24 Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 36:9; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:8–14
  24. 25 1 Kings 20:10; Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 36:12; 2 Kings 19:23–24
  25. 26 Acts 4:27–28; Acts 2:23; Isaiah 46:10–11; 1 Peter 2:8; Isaiah 10:15
  26. 27 Psalm 129:6; Psalm 127:1–2; Jeremiah 37:10; Psalm 90:5–6; Isaiah 19:16
  27. 28 Revelation 2:13; Psalm 139:1–11; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 15:3
  28. 29 Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 37:34; Ezekiel 38:4; Isaiah 30:28; Ezekiel 29:4
  29. 30 2 Kings 19:29; Leviticus 25:4–5; Isaiah 7:14; 2 Kings 20:9; 1 Kings 13:3–5
  30. 31 Isaiah 27:6; 2 Kings 19:30–31; Psalm 80:9; Isaiah 1:9; Romans 11:5
  31. 32 Isaiah 9:7; 2 Kings 19:31; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14; Isaiah 59:17
  32. 33 Isaiah 8:7–10; Ezekiel 21:22; Isaiah 10:32–34; 2 Kings 19:32–35; Isaiah 33:20
  33. 34 Isaiah 37:29; Proverbs 21:30
  34. 35 2 Kings 20:6; Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 23:5–6
  35. 36 Isaiah 10:12; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3; Isaiah 31:8; 2 Samuel 24:16
  36. 37 Jonah 3:3; Jonah 1:2; Nahum 1:1; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 10:11–12
  37. 38 Genesis 8:4; Jeremiah 51:27; Ezra 4:2; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2 Kings 19:36–37

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  1. Quotes verse 37:35 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXVI)

    "I will defend this city for my servant David's sake." And besides, on account of His favor towards him, He suffered not Solomon to fall from the kingdom, great as the sin was which he had committed.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)