Isaías 40
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Isaiah 40
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| CONSOLAOS, consolaos, pueblo mío, dice vuestro Dios. | Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God. |
| Hablad al corazón de Jerusalem: decidle á voces que su tiempo es ya cumplido, que su pecado es perdonado; que doble ha recibido de la mano de Jehová por todos sus pecados. | Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins. |
| Voz que clama en el desierto: Barred camino á Jehová: enderezad calzada en la soledad á nuestro Dios. | A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God. |
| Todo valle sea alzado, y bájese todo monte y collado; y lo torcido se enderece, y lo áspero se allane. | Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley, |
| Y manifestaráse la gloria de Jehová, y toda carne juntamente la verá; que la boca de Jehová habló. | And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it. |
| Voz que decía: Da voces. Y yo respondí: ¿Qué tengo de decir á voces? Toda carne es hierba, y toda su gloria como flor del campo: | A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. |
| La hierba se seca, y la flor se cae; porque el viento de Jehová sopló en ella: ciertamente hierba es el pueblo. | The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. |
| Sécase la hierba, cáese la flor: mas la palabra del Dios nuestro permanece para siempre. | The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal. |
| Súbete sobre un monte alto, anunciadora de Sión; levanta fuertemente tu voz, anunciadora de Jerusalem; levántala, no temas; di á las ciudades de Judá: ¡Veis aquí el Dios vuestro! | You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God! |
| He aquí que el Señor Jehová vendrá con fortaleza, y su brazo se enseñoreará: he aquí que su salario viene con él, y su obra delante de su rostro. | See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him. |
| Como pastor apacentará su rebaño; en su brazo cogerá los corderos, y en su seno los llevará; pastoreará suavemente las paridas. | He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young. |
| ¿Quién midió las aguas con su puño, y aderezó los cielos con su palmo, y con tres dedos allegó el polvo de la tierra, y pesó los montes con balanza, y con peso los collados? | In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales? |
| ¿Quién enseñó al espíritu de Jehová, ó le aconsejo enseñándole? | By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher? |
| ¿A quién demandó consejo para ser avisado? ¿Quién le enseñó el camino del juicio, ó le enseñó ciencia, ó le mostró la senda de la prudencia? | Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom? |
| He aquí que las naciones son reputadas como la gota de un acetre, y como el orín del peso: he aquí que hace desaparecer las islas como polvo. | See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust. |
| Ni el Líbano bastará para el fuego, ni todos sus animales para el sacrificio. | And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering. |
| Como nada son todas las gentes delante de él; y en su comparación serán estimadas en menos que nada, y que lo que no es. | All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value. |
| ¿A qué pues haréis semejante á Dios, ó qué imagen le compondréis? | Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him? |
| El artífice apareja la imagen de talla, el platero le extiende el oro, y le funde cadenas de plata. | The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. |
| El pobre escoge, para ofrecerle, madera que no se corrompa; búscase un maestro sabio, que le haga una imagen de talla que no se mueva. | The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved. |
| ¿No sabéis? ¿no habéis oído? ¿nunca os lo han dicho desde el principio? ¿no habéis sido enseñados desde que la tierra se fundó? | Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base? |
| El está asentado sobre el globo de la tierra, cuyos moradores son como langostas: él extiende los cielos como una cortina, tiéndelos como una tienda para morar: | It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place. |
| El torna en nada los poderosos, y á los que gobiernan la tierra hace como cosa vana. | He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. |
| Como si nunca fueran plantados, como si nunca fueran sembrados, como si nunca su tronco hubiera tenido raíz en la tierra; así que sopla en ellos se secan, y el torbellino los lleva como hojarascas. | They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass. |
| ¿A qué pues me haréis semejante, ó seré asimilado? dice el Santo. | Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One. |
| Levantad en alto vuestros ojos, y mirad quién crió estas cosas: él saca por cuenta su ejército: á todas llama por sus nombres; ninguna faltará: tal es la grandeza de su fuerza, y su poder y virtud. | Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places. |
| ¿Por qué dices, oh Jacob, y hablas tú, Israel: Mi camino es escondido de Jehová, y de mi Dios pasó mi juicio? | Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause? |
| ¿No has sabido, no has oído que el Dios del siglo es Jehová, el cual crió los términos de la tierra? No se trabaja, ni se fatiga con cansancio, y su entendimiento no hay quien lo alcance. | Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom. |
| El da esfuerzo al cansado, y multiplica las fuerzas al que no tiene ningunas. | He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force. |
| Los mancebos se fatigan y se cansan, los mozos flaquean y caen: | Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength; |
| Mas los que esperan á Jehová tendrán nuevas fuerzas; levantarán las alas como águilas, correrán, y no se cansarán, caminarán, y no se fatigarán. | But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. |
