Isaías 45
La Palabra (España)
Investidura de Ciro
45 Así dice el Señor de su ungido,
de Ciro, a quien llevo de la mano:
Someteré ante él a las naciones,
desceñiré los lomos de los reyes,
abriré ante él las puertas,
los portones no le resistirán.
2 Caminaré delante de ti,
te iré allanando el camino,
romperé las puertas de bronce,
quebraré los cerrojos de hierro.
3 Te daré tesoros ocultos,
riquezas bien escondidas,
y reconocerás que soy el Señor,
aquel que te llama por tu nombre,
el Dios de Israel.
4 Por mi siervo Jacob,
por mi elegido Israel,
te llamé por tu nombre,
te concedí este honor
aunque no me conocías.
5 Yo soy el Señor, no hay otro;
no hay Dios fuera de mí.
Te ciño como guerrero,
aunque no me conoces,
6 para que sepan en oriente y occidente
que no hay nadie fuera de mí.
Yo soy el Señor, no hay otro:
7 el que hace la luz y crea la tiniebla,
el que opera la paz y crea la desgracia.
Yo, el Señor, hago todo esto.
8 Deja, cielo, caer tu rocío,
lloved, nubes, la justicia;
ábrase la tierra y brote la salvación,
que junto con ella germine la justicia.
Yo, el Señor, hago todo esto.
La arcilla y el alfarero
9 ¡Ay de quien pleitea con su artífice
no siendo más que un cacharro!
¿Dice el barro al alfarero: “¿qué haces?”,
o lo acusa su obra diciendo:
“¿dónde está tu habilidad?”.
10 ¡Ay de quien dice a un padre:
“¿qué engendras?”;
o a la esposa: “¿qué estás dando a luz?”!
11 Así dice el Señor,
el Santo de Israel, su creador:
¿Tenéis algo que decir de mis hijos?
¿Me instruiréis sobre la obra de mis manos?
12 Yo he hecho la tierra
y he creado en ella al ser humano;
mis propias manos tendieron el cielo,
di instrucciones a todo su ejército.
13 Yo lo he suscitado para salvar,
voy a allanar todos sus caminos;
él reconstruirá mi ciudad,
liberará a mis deportados
sin pedir dinero ni rescate,
dice el Señor del universo.
Conversión de los paganos
14 Así dice el Señor:
La riqueza de Egipto, el comercio de Etiopía
y los sabeos, gente de elevada estatura,
pasarán a ti y serán tuyos;
tras de ti marcharán encadenados,
ante ti se postrarán
y dirán suplicantes:
“En ti está Dios, y no hay otro,
no hay ningún otro Dios”.
Un Dios invisible pero eficaz
15 Sí, tú eres un Dios invisible,
Dios y salvador de Israel.
16 Quedan defraudados y avergonzados,
abochornados los que fabrican ídolos.
17 Pero el Señor salva a Israel
con una victoria permanente.
No se sentirán defraudados
ni avergonzados nunca jamás.
Un Dios fiable
18 Así dice el Señor,
el que creó el cielo y es Dios,
el que hizo y modeló la tierra;
el que la afianzó y no la creó vacía,
sino que la hizo habitable:
Yo soy el Señor, no hay otro.
19 No he hablado a escondidas,
en un lugar oscuro de la tierra;
no dije a los hijos de Jacob
que me buscaran en el vacío.
Yo soy el Señor, y digo la verdad;
anuncio las cosas que son justas.
Careo con las naciones y oferta de salvación
20 Reuníos, venid,
acercaos todos,
supervivientes de las naciones.
Nada saben los que llevan
su ídolo de madera,
los que rezan a un dios
incapaz de salvar.
21 Hablad, traed pruebas,
deliberad todos juntos.
¿Quién anunció esto desde antaño,
quién predijo esto desde siempre?
¿No fui yo, el Señor?
No hay dios fuera de mí;
soy un Dios justo y salvador
y no hay otro aparte de mí.
22 Volveos a mí y os salvaré,
confines todos de la tierra,
pues yo soy Dios, no hay otro.
23 Lo juro por mí mismo,
de mi boca sale la verdad,
una palabra que no se desdice;
ante mí se doblará toda rodilla,
por mí jurará toda lengua.
24 Se dirá: “Ciertamente en el Señor
están la salvación y el poder”.
Y se le acercarán avergonzados
los que se enardecían contra él.
25 En el Señor se gloriarán victoriosos
todos los hijos de Israel.
Isaiah 45
New King James Version
Cyrus, God’s Instrument
45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To (A)Cyrus, whose (B)right hand I have [a]held—
(C)To subdue nations before him
And (D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
2 ‘I will go before you
(E)And[b] make the [c]crooked places straight;
(F)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
(G)That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who (H)call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
4 For (I)Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
5 I (J)am the Lord, and (K)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
(L)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
6 (M)That they may (N)know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and (O)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’
8 “Rain(P) down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the Lord, have created it.
9 “Woe to him who strives with (Q)his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
(R)Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”
11 Thus says the Lord,
The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
(S)“Ask Me of things to come concerning (T)My sons;
And concerning (U)the work of My hands, you command Me.
12 (V)I have made the earth,
And (W)created man on it.
I—My hands—stretched out the heavens,
And (X)all their host I have commanded.
13 (Y)I have raised him up in righteousness,
And I will [d]direct all his ways;
He shall (Z)build My city
And let My exiles go free,
(AA)Not for price nor reward,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
The Lord, the Only Savior
14 Thus says the Lord:
(AB)“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over (AC)in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, (AD)‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
(AE)There is no other God.’ ”
15 Truly You are God, (AF)who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior!
16 They shall be (AG)ashamed
And also disgraced, all of them;
They shall go in confusion together,
Who are makers of idols.
17 (AH)But Israel shall be saved by the Lord
With an (AI)everlasting salvation;
You shall not be ashamed or (AJ)disgraced
Forever and ever.
18 For thus says the Lord,
(AK)Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it [e]in vain,
Who formed it to be (AL)inhabited:
(AM)“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 I have not spoken in (AN)secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me [f]in vain’;
(AO)I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.
20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
(AP)They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
(AQ)Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
(AR)And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
22 “Look to Me, and be saved,
(AS)All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (AT)I have sworn by Myself;
The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every (AU)knee shall bow,
(AV)Every tongue shall take an oath.
24 He shall say,
[g]‘Surely in the Lord I have (AW)righteousness and strength.
To Him men shall come,
And (AX)all shall be ashamed
Who are incensed against Him.
25 (AY)In the Lord all the descendants of Israel
Shall be justified, and (AZ)shall glory.’ ”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
- Isaiah 45:2 Tg. I will trample down the walls; Vg. I will humble the great ones of the earth
- Isaiah 45:2 DSS, LXX mountains
- Isaiah 45:13 Or make all his ways straight
- Isaiah 45:18 Or empty, a waste
- Isaiah 45:19 Or in a waste place
- Isaiah 45:24 Or Only in the Lord are all righteousness and strength
Isaiah 45
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
45 Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and I will unarm and ungird the loins of kings to open doors before him, so that gates will not be shut.
2 I will go before you and level the mountains [to make the crooked places straight]; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron.
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, Who calls you by your name.
4 For the sake of Jacob My servant, and of Israel My chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known Me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is no one else; there is no God besides Me. I will gird and arm you, though you have not known Me,
6 That men may know from the east and the rising of the sun and from the west and the setting of the sun that there is no God besides Me. I am the Lord, and no one else [is He].
7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] [a]evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things.
8 Let fall in showers, you heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness [the pure, spiritual, heaven-born possibilities that have their foundation in the holy being of God]; let the earth open, and let them [skies and earth] sprout forth salvation, and let righteousness germinate and spring up [as plants do] together; I the Lord have created it.
9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker!—a worthless piece of broken pottery among other pieces equally worthless [and yet presuming to strive with his Maker]! Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What do you think you are making? or, Your work has no handles?(A)
10 Woe to him [who complains against his parents that they have begotten him] who says to a father, What are you begetting? or to a woman, With what are you in travail?
11 Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Would you question Me about things to come concerning My children, and concerning the work of My hands [would you] command Me?
12 I made the earth and created man upon it. I, with My hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
13 I will raise [Cyrus] up in righteousness [willing in every way that which is right and proper], and I will direct all his ways; he will build My city, and he will let My captives go, not for hire or for a bribe, says the Lord of hosts.
14 Thus says the Lord: The labor and wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and they shall be yours; they shall follow you; in chains [of subjection to you] they shall come over, and they shall fall down before you; they shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is with you, and there is no other, no God besides Him.(B)
15 Truly You are a God Who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go off into confusion together.
17 But Israel shall be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.(C)
18 For thus says the Lord—Who created the heavens, God Himself, Who formed the earth and made it, Who established it and did not create it to be a worthless waste; He formed it to be inhabited—I am the Lord, and there is no one else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a corner of the land of darkness; I did not call the descendants of Jacob [to a fruitless service], saying, Seek Me for nothing [but I promised them a just reward]. I, the Lord, speak righteousness (the truth—trustworthy, straightforward correspondence between deeds and words); I declare things that are right.(D)
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about [in religious processions or into battle] their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
21 Declare and bring forward your strong arguments [for praying to gods that cannot save]; yes, take counsel together. Who announced this [the rise of Cyrus and his conquests] beforehand (long ago)? [What god] declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, a rigidly and uncompromisingly just and righteous God and Savior; there is none besides Me.
22 Look to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
23 I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear [allegiance].(E)
24 Only in the Lord shall one say, I have righteousness (salvation and victory) and strength [to achieve]. To Him shall all come who were incensed against Him, and they shall be ashamed.(F)
25 In the Lord shall all the offspring of Israel be justified (enjoy righteousness, salvation, and victory) and shall glory.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:7 Moral evil proceeds from the will of men, but physical evil proceeds from the will of God.
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