Isaías 17
Reina Valera Actualizada
Profecía acerca de Damasco
17 Profecía acerca de Damasco: “He aquí que Damasco ha dejado de ser ciudad y será un montón de ruinas. 2 Las ciudades de Aroer están abandonadas y serán para los rebaños; allí se recuestan, y no hay quien los espante. 3 Ha cesado la fortificación de Efraín y el reino de Damasco. El remanente de los sirios será como la gloria de los hijos de Israel”, dice el SEÑOR de los Ejércitos.
Profecía acerca de Israel
4 “Sucederá en aquel día que la gloria de Jacob será disminuida, y enflaquecerá la gordura de su carne. 5 Será como cuando el segador recoge la mies y con su brazo siega las espigas. Será como el que recoge espigas en el valle de Refaím. 6 Quedan en él rebuscos, como cuando se varea al olivo: dos o tres olivas en el extremo de una rama, cuatro o cinco en sus ramas más fructíferas”, dice el SEÑOR Dios de Israel.
7 En aquel día mirará el hombre a su Hacedor, y sus ojos contemplarán al Santo de Israel. 8 No mirará los altares que hicieron sus manos; no mirará lo que hicieron sus dedos ni los árboles rituales de Asera ni los altares de incienso.
9 En aquel día sus ciudades fortificadas quedarán como los lugares abandonados de los horeos y de los amorreos[a], los cuales ellos abandonaron ante los hijos de Israel; y habrá desolación. 10 Porque te olvidaste del Dios de tu salvación, y no te acordaste de la Roca de tu fortaleza. Por eso, aunque siembras plantas deleitosas y plantas vides importadas, 11 y en el día que las plantas las haces crecer y haces que su semilla florezca a la mañana siguiente; sin embargo, la cosecha se esfumará en el día de la enfermedad y del dolor incurable.
12 ¡Ay del tumulto de los muchos pueblos que rugen como el rugido del mar! El bullicio de las naciones resuena como el bullicio de las aguas impetuosas. 13 Las naciones hacen bullicio como las muchas aguas; pero Dios las reprenderá, y ellas huirán lejos ahuyentadas como el tamo de las colinas ante el viento y como el remolino de hojas ante el torbellino. 14 Al atardecer he aquí el terror repentino, y antes del amanecer ya no existirán. Esta es la porción de los que nos despojan, el destino de los que nos saquean.
Footnotes
- Isaías 17:9 Según Rollos MM y Vulgata; TM, matará.
Isaiah 17
King James Version
17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah 17
English Standard Version
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of (C)Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and (D)none will make them afraid.
3 The fortress will disappear from (E)Ephraim,
and the kingdom from (F)Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like (G)the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day (H)the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and (I)the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5 And it shall be (J)as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in (K)the Valley of Rephaim.
6 (L)Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.
7 (M)In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8 (N)He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the (O)Asherim or the altars of incense.
9 (P)In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
10 For (Q)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the (R)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11 though you make them grow[a] on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away[b]
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
12 Ah, (S)the thunder of many peoples;
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 (T)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
(U)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (V)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and (W)whirling dust before the storm.
14 (X)At evening time, behold, terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:11 Or though you carefully fence them
- Isaiah 17:11 Or will be a heap
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