Isaiah 20-22

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A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

20 In the year that the supreme commander,^(A) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod^(B) and attacked and captured it— ²at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.^(C) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth^(D) from your body and the sandals^(E) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped^(F) and barefoot.^(G)

³Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant^(H) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,^(I) as a sign^(J) and portent^(K) against Egypt^(L) and Cush,^[a]^(M) ⁴so the king^(N) of Assyria will lead away stripped^(O) and barefoot the Egyptian captives^(P) and Cushite^(Q) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared^(R)—to Egypt’s shame.^(S) ⁵Those who trusted^(T) in Cush^(U) and boasted in Egypt^(V) will be dismayed and put to shame.^(W) ⁶In that day^(X) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened^(Y) to those we relied on,^(Z) those we fled to for help^(AA) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?^(AB)’”

A Prophecy Against Babylon

21 A prophecy^(AC) against the Desert^(AD) by the Sea:

Like whirlwinds^(AE) sweeping through the southland,^(AF)
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.

²A dire^(AG) vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays,^(AH) the looter takes loot.
Elam,^(AI) attack! Media,^(AJ) lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

³At this my body is racked with pain,^(AK)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;^(AL)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered^(AM) by what I see.
⁴My heart^(AN) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;^(AO)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror^(AP) to me.

⁵They set the tables,
    they spread the rugs,
    they eat, they drink!^(AQ)
Get up, you officers,
    oil the shields!^(AR)

⁶This is what the Lord says to me:

“Go, post a lookout^(AS)
    and have him report what he sees.
⁷When he sees chariots^(AT)
    with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
    or riders on camels,^(AU)
let him be alert,
    fully alert.”

⁸And the lookout^[b]^(AV) shouted,

“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
    every night I stay at my post.
⁹Look, here comes a man in a chariot^(AW)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon^(AX) has fallen,^(AY) has fallen!
All the images of its gods^(AZ)
    lie shattered^(BA) on the ground!’”

¹⁰My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,^(BB)
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

¹¹A prophecy against Dumah^[c]:^(BC)

Someone calls to me from Seir,^(BD)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”
¹²The watchman replies,
    “Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
    and come back yet again.”

A Prophecy Against Arabia

¹³A prophecy^(BE) against Arabia:^(BF)

You caravans of Dedanites,^(BG)
    who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
¹⁴    bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,^(BH)
    bring food for the fugitives.
¹⁵They flee^(BI) from the sword,^(BJ)
    from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
    and from the heat of battle.

¹⁶This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract^(BK) would count it, all the splendor^(BL) of Kedar^(BM) will come to an end. ¹⁷The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.^(BN)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.^(BO)

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy^(BP) against the Valley^(BQ) of Vision:^(BR)

What troubles you now,
    that you have all gone up on the roofs,^(BS)
²you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult^(BT) and revelry?^(BU)
Your slain^(BV) were not killed by the sword,^(BW)
    nor did they die in battle.
³All your leaders have fled^(BX) together;
    they have been captured^(BY) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
⁴Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep^(BZ) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”^(CA)

⁵The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(CB)
    of tumult and trampling^(CC) and terror^(CD)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(CE)
a day of battering down walls^(CF)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
⁶Elam^(CG) takes up the quiver,^(CH)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir^(CI) uncovers the shield.
⁷Your choicest valleys^(CJ) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.^(CK)

⁸The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day^(CL)
    to the weapons^(CM) in the Palace of the Forest.^(CN)
⁹You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through^(CO) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.^(CP)
¹⁰You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
    and tore down houses^(CQ) to strengthen the wall.^(CR)
¹¹You built a reservoir between the two walls^(CS)
    for the water of the Old Pool,^(CT)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
    or have regard^(CU) for the One who planned^(CV) it long ago.

¹²The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(CW)
to weep^(CX) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(CY) and put on sackcloth.^(CZ)
¹³But see, there is joy and revelry,^(DA)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!^(DB)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”^(DC)

¹⁴The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:^(DD) “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned^(DE) for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

¹⁵This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

“Go, say to this steward,
    to Shebna^(DF) the palace^(DG) administrator:^(DH)
¹⁶What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave^(DI) for yourself^(DJ) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

¹⁷“Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl^(DK) you away, you mighty man.
¹⁸He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw^(DL) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots^(DM) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
¹⁹I will depose you from your office,
    and you will be ousted^(DN) from your position.^(DO)

²⁰“In that day^(DP) I will summon my servant,^(DQ) Eliakim^(DR) son of Hilkiah. ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash^(DS) around him and hand your authority^(DT) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. ²²I will place on his shoulder^(DU) the key^(DV) to the house of David;^(DW) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.^(DX) ²³I will drive him like a peg^(DY) into a firm place;^(DZ) he will become a seat^[d] of honor^(EA) for the house of his father. ²⁴All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

²⁵“In that day,^(EB)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg^(EC) driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.^(ED)

Notas al pie

Isaiah 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5
Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion
Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.
Isaiah 22:23 Or throne

Mark 5:21-43

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Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman^(A)

²¹When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake,^(B) a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.^(C) ²²Then one of the synagogue leaders,^(D) named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. ²³He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on^(E) her so that she will be healed and live.” ²⁴So Jesus went with him.

A large crowd followed and pressed around him. ²⁵And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding^(F) for twelve years. ²⁶She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. ²⁷When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes,^(G) I will be healed.” ²⁹Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.^(H)

³⁰At once Jesus realized that power^(I) had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

³²But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. ³⁴He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you.^(J) Go in peace^(K) and be freed from your suffering.”

³⁵While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader.^(L) “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”

³⁶Overhearing^[a] what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”

³⁷He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.^(M) ³⁸When they came to the home of the synagogue leader,^(N) Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. ³⁹He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”^(O) ⁴⁰But they laughed at him.

After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. ⁴¹He took her by the hand^(P) and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).^(Q) ⁴²Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. ⁴³He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this,^(R) and told them to give her something to eat.