Isaías 51
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Salvación para Jerusalén
51 Dios dijo:
«¡Escúchenme todos ustedes,
los que buscan a Dios
y aman la justicia!
Ustedes son descendientes
de Abraham y de Sara.
2 Miren el ejemplo
que ellos les han dejado.
Cuando yo llamé a Abraham,
él era sólo uno,
pero lo bendije
y le di muchos hijos.
3 »Aunque Jerusalén está en ruinas,
yo la consolaré
y la convertiré en un hermoso jardín.
Será como el jardín que planté en Edén.
Entonces Jerusalén celebrará
y cantará canciones de alegría
y de acción de gracias».
4 Dios continuó diciendo:
«Préstame atención, pueblo mío;
voy a dar mi enseñanza,
y mi justicia servirá de guía
para las naciones.
5 Ya se acerca mi justicia,
mi salvación está en camino.
¡Con mi poder juzgaré a las naciones!
Los pueblos de las costas lejanas
confían en mí.
Mi poder los llena de esperanza.
6 »¡Levanten los ojos al cielo!
¡Miren la tierra aquí abajo!
El cielo desaparecerá como humo,
la tierra se gastará como un vestido,
y sus habitantes morirán como moscas.
Pero mi salvación y mi justicia
permanecerán para siempre.
7 »Escúchenme,
ustedes que saben lo que es bueno
y que conocen mi ley.
No teman ni se desalienten
por los insultos de la gente,
8 porque esa gente desaparecerá
como ropa comida por la polilla,
como lana devorada por los gusanos.
Pero mi salvación y mi justicia
permanecerán para siempre».
9 Los israelitas clamaron:
«¡Despierta, Dios, despierta!
¡Despierta y vístete de fuerza!
Muestra tu poder
como lo hiciste en el pasado,
cuando destruiste a los egipcios.
10 »Tú secaste las aguas del mar
y allí abriste un camino
por donde marchó tu pueblo liberado.
11 Lo mismo que en el pasado,
ahora volverán los que tú rescataste
y entrarán en Jerusalén
con gritos de alegría.
Estarán llenos de alegría,
y el llanto y el dolor desaparecerán».
12 Dios dijo:
«Soy yo mismo el que los anima.
¿Por qué le tienen miedo
a simples seres humanos
que no son más que hierba?
13 No olviden que yo soy su creador,
yo soy el que extendió los cielos
y afirmó la tierra.
No teman al enemigo
que con furia quiere destruirlos.
Frente a mi poder
toda su furia desaparece.
14 »Pronto serán liberados los prisioneros;
no les faltará el pan
ni morirán en la cárcel,
15 porque yo soy el único Dios,
el Dios todopoderoso.
Yo agito el mar,
y las olas se levantan con estruendo.
16 »Yo les dije lo que deben decir,
y los protegeré con mi poder.
Yo he extendido los cielos
y afirmado la tierra,
y ahora digo:
“Habitantes de Jerusalén,
¡ustedes son mi pueblo!”»
El enojo de Dios
17 Isaías dijo:
«¡Despierta, Jerusalén, despierta!
Levántate, tú
que has sufrido el enojo de Dios.
Lo has sufrido tanto
que ya ni levantarte puedes.
18 De todos los hijos que tuviste,
no hubo ninguno que te guiara;
de todos los hijos que criaste,
ninguno te tomó de la mano.
19 »Estas dos desgracias
han venido sobre ti:
¡Has sufrido la guerra y el hambre!
¿Quién tendrá compasión de ti?
¿Quién te consolará?
20 Tus hijos están tirados por las calles,
están como venados atrapados en la red.
Toda la furia y el reproche de Dios
han caído sobre ellos.
21 »Por eso,
habitantes de Jerusalén,
ustedes que están borrachos
pero no de vino,
escuchen lo que dice su Dios,
22 el Dios que defiende a su pueblo:
“En mi enojo los castigué duramente
y los hice rodar por el suelo;
pero ya no volveré a castigarlos.
23 Más bien castigaré a sus enemigos,
esos que les dijeron:
‘¡Tírense al suelo,
para que los aplastemos!’
Ustedes obedecieron,
¡y ellos los aplastaron!”»
Isaiah 51
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
51 Hearken to Me, you who follow after rightness and justice, you who seek and inquire of [and require] the Lord [claiming Him by necessity and by right]: look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the hole in the quarry from which you were dug;
2 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him when he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.
3 For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And 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 the voice of song or instrument of praise.
4 Listen to Me [the Lord], O My people, and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a [divine] law will go forth from Me, and I will establish My justice for a light to the peoples.
5 My rightness and justice are near, My salvation is going forth, and My arms shall rule the peoples; the islands shall wait for and expect Me, and on My arm shall they trust and wait with hope.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall be dissolved and vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner [like gnats]. But My salvation shall be forever, and My rightness and justice [and faithfully fulfilled promise] shall not be abolished.(A)
7 Listen to Me, you who know rightness and justice and right standing with God, the people in whose heart is My law and My instruction: fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid nor dismayed at their revilings.
8 For [in comparison with the Lord they are so weak that things as insignificant as] the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But My rightness and justice [and faithfully fulfilled promise] shall be forever, and My salvation to all generations.
9 [Zion now cries to the Lord, the God of Israel] Awake, awake, put on strength and might, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, as in the generations of long ago. Was it not You Who cut Rahab [Egypt] in pieces, Who pierced the dragon [symbol of Egypt]?(B)
10 Was it not You Who dried up the Red Sea, the waters of the great deep, Who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? [Why then are we left so long in captivity?]
11 [The Lord God says] And the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing to Zion; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.(C)
12 I, even I, am He Who comforts you. Who are you, that you should be afraid of man, who shall die, and of a son of man, who shall be made [as destructible] as grass,
13 That you should forget the Lord your Maker, Who stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy or even though he did so? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile and he who is bent down by chains shall speedily be released; and he shall not die and go down to the pit of destruction, nor shall his food fail.
15 For I am the Lord your God, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar and Who by rebuke restrains it—the Lord of hosts is His name.
16 And I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may fix the [new] heavens as a tabernacle and lay the foundations of a [new] earth and say to Zion, You are My people.(D)
17 Arouse yourself, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His wrath, you who have drunk the cup of staggering and intoxication to the dregs.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; neither is there anyone to take her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
19 Two kinds of calamities have befallen you—but who feels sorry for and commiserates you?—they are desolation and destruction [on the land and city], and famine and sword [on the inhabitants]—how shall I comfort you or by whom?
20 Your sons have fainted; they lie [like corpses] at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net; they are full [from drinking] of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore, now hear this, you who are afflicted, and [who are] drunk, but not with wine [but thrown down by the wrath of God].
22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord, and your God, Who pleads the cause of His people: Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering and intoxication; the cup of My wrath you shall drink no more.
23 And I will put it into the hands of your tormentors and oppressors, those who said to you, Bow down, that we may ride or tread over you; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.
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