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Isaías 51 Majority Standard Bible
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1 “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
3 For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
4 “Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
5 My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
5 My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
7 Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11 So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
11 Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
12 “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
13 But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
13 Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.
14 The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.
15 For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
16 I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
16 I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
17 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
17 Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
18 Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
19 These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
19 These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?
20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
20 Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
22 Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
23 I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
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Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaías 51:7; Salmo 94:15; Salmo 105:3–4; Hebreos 12:14; Romanos 9:30–32
- 2 Ezequiel 33:24; Romanos 4:1–5; Gálatas 3:9–14; Hebreos 11:8–12; Génesis 24:1
- 3 Isaías 49:13; Isaías 52:9; Joel 2:3; Génesis 13:10; Jeremías 31:25
- 4 1 Pedro 2:9; 1 Corintios 9:21; Isaías 2:3; Isaías 49:6; Isaías 42:6
- 5 Romanos 10:17–18; Isaías 46:13; Isaías 60:9; Isaías 42:4; Romanos 10:6–10
- 6 Mateo 24:35; Salmo 102:25–26; Hebreos 1:10–12; Isaías 34:4; Apocalipsis 6:12–14
- 7 Mateo 5:11; Ezequiel 2:6; Salmo 37:31; 1 Pedro 4:14; Hechos 5:41
- 8 Isaías 51:6; Isaías 50:9; Isaías 66:24; Oseas 5:12; Lucas 1:50
- 9 Salmo 74:13–14; Isaías 52:1; Salmo 89:10; Isaías 27:1; Isaías 30:7
- 10 Isaías 43:16; Isaías 63:11–12; Isaías 50:2; Éxodo 15:13; Éxodo 14:21–22
- 11 Isaías 25:8; Apocalipsis 21:4; Apocalipsis 7:17; Isaías 35:10; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:16
- 12 Salmo 118:6; Isaías 2:22; 1 Pedro 1:24; Juan 14:26–27; Juan 14:18
- 13 Isaías 40:22; Isaías 45:12; Isaías 17:10; Salmo 104:2; Daniel 3:19
- 14 Isaías 48:20; Zacarías 9:11; Isaías 52:2; Hechos 12:7–8; Isaías 49:10
- 15 Jeremías 31:35; Isaías 54:5; Amós 9:5–6; Salmo 74:13; Isaías 47:4
- 16 Isaías 59:21; Isaías 49:2; Juan 17:8; Deuteronomio 18:18; Jeremías 31:33
- 17 Isaías 52:1; Apocalipsis 14:10; 1 Corintios 15:34; Isaías 51:9; Salmo 60:3
- 18 Isaías 49:21; Salmo 88:18; Isaías 45:1; Salmo 142:4; Mateo 15:14
- 19 Isaías 47:9; Amós 7:2; Isaías 22:4; Lamentaciones 1:9; Job 2:11
- 20 Apocalipsis 16:9–11; Lamentaciones 2:11–12; Lamentaciones 1:15; Isaías 51:17; Lamentaciones 5:13
- 21 Isaías 51:17; Isaías 29:9; Isaías 54:11
- 22 Proverbios 22:23; Isaías 62:8; Isaías 51:17; Jeremías 50:34; Isaías 49:25
- 23 Josué 10:24; Zacarías 12:2; Apocalipsis 17:18; Apocalipsis 13:16–17; Proverbios 21:18
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