Isaías 14
1 Porque Yavé tendrá compasión de Jacob. Volverá a escoger a Israel y los establecerá en su propia tierra. Los extranjeros se unirán a ellos, y se adherirán a la casa de Jacob.
Her time is drawing near, and her days will not be prolonged. For the Lord will take pity on Jacob, and he will still choose from Israel, and he will cause them to rest upon their own soil. And the new arrival will be joined to them, and he will adhere to the house of Jacob.
2 Las naciones los tomarán y los llevarán a su lugar. Y la Casa de Israel los poseerá como esclavos y esclavas en la tierra de Yavé. Cautivarán a los que los cautivaron, y señorearán sobre sus opresores.
And the people will take them, and lead them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them, in the land of the Lord, as men and women servants. And they will take captive those who had taken them captive. And they will subjugate their oppressors.
3 Aquel día Yavé te dará descanso de tu labor, de tu tribulación y de la dura esclavitud en la cual los obligaron a servir.
And this shall be in that day: when God will have given you rest from your labor, and from your oppression, and from the difficult servitude under which you served before,
4 Entonces se mofarán del rey de Babilonia: ¡Cómo terminó el opresor y cesó la furia!
you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?
5 Yavé quebró la vara de los perversos, el cetro de los gobernantes,
The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,
6 que sin tregua golpeaba a los pueblos con furor, [que] oprimía a las naciones con incontrolable persecución.
which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.
7 Toda la tierra está en reposo y en paz. Prorrumpe en gritos de júbilo.
All the earth has become quiet and still; it has been gladdened and has rejoiced.
8 Aun los cipreses y los cedros del Líbano se alegran por ti [y dicen]: ¡Desde cuando fuiste derribado, ya no sube el talador contra nosotros!
The evergreens, too, have rejoiced over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying: ‘Since you have slept, no one has ascended who would cut us down.’
9 El Seol abajo se estremeció a causa de ti. Despertó a todos los potentados muertos de la tierra para que en tu llegada salieran a recibirte. Levantó de sus tronos a todos los reyes de las naciones. (Sheol h7585)
Hell below was stirred up to meet you at your advent; it has awakened the giants for you. All the leaders of the earth have risen from their thrones, all the leaders among the nations.” (Sheol h7585)
10 Todos ellos te responderán y dirán: ¡También tú fuiste debilitado como nosotros, y fuiste como nosotros!
Everyone will respond and will say to you: “Now you are wounded, just as we were; you have become like us.
11 Tu soberbia y el sonido de tus arpas descendieron al Seol. Los gusanos hacen cama debajo de ti y te cubrirán. (Sheol h7585)
Your arrogance has been dragged down to Hell. Your body has fallen dead. The moths will be strewn beneath you, and the worms will be your covering. (Sheol h7585)
12 ¡Cómo caíste del cielo, oh Lucero de la mañana! ¡Tú, que debilitabas a las naciones, fuiste derribado a la tierra!
How is it that you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who used to rise like the sun? How is it that you have fallen to the earth, you who wounded the peoples?
13 Tú que decías en tu corazón: Subiré al cielo, en lo alto. Junto a las estrellas de ʼElohim levantaré mi trono, y me sentaré en la Montaña del Testimonio, a los lados del norte.
And you said in your heart: ‘I will climb up to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will be enthroned upon the mountain of the covenant, on the northern parts.
14 Subiré sobre las alturas de las nubes, y seré semejante a Elyón.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’
Yet truly, you shall be dragged down to Hell, into the depths of the pit. (Sheol h7585)
16 Los que te vean se inclinarán hacia ti. Reflexionarán ante ti y dirán: ¿Es éste aquel varón que hacía temblar la tierra, que sacudía los reinos,
Those who see you, will lean toward you, and will gaze upon you, saying: ‘Could this be the man who disturbed the earth, who shook kingdoms,
17 que convirtió el mundo en un desierto, que asoló sus ciudades y nunca les abrió la cárcel a sus presos?
who made the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who would not even open a prison for his prisoners?’”
18 Todos los reyes de la tierra están tendidos con honra, cada uno en su propia morada.
All the kings of the nations throughout the whole world have slept in glory, each man in his own house.
19 Pero tú eres echado de tu sepulcro como rama repugnante, como ropa de asesinados a espada, que bajan al fondo de la fosa como uno que fue hallado muerto.
But you have been rejected from your grave, like a useless polluted plant, and you have been bound up with those who were slain by the sword, and who descended to the bottom of the pit, like a rotting carcass.
20 No serás unido a ellos en la sepultura, porque tú destruiste tu tierra y mataste a tu pueblo. Para siempre no será nombrada la descendencia de los malignos.
You will not be associated with them, even in the grave. For you have destroyed your own land; you have slain your own people. The offspring of the wicked ones will not be called upon for eternity.
21 Preparen la matanza de sus hijos por la perversidad de sus padres, no sea que se levanten, posean la tierra y llenen de ciudades la superficie del mundo.
Prepare his sons for the slaughter, according to the iniquity of their fathers. They will not rise up, nor inherit the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 Porque me levantaré contra ellos, dice Yavé de las huestes, y extirparé de Babilonia el nombre y los sobrevivientes, los descendientes y las futuras generaciones, dice Yavé.
But I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts. And I will perish the name of Babylon and its remnants: both the plant and its progeny, says the Lord.
23 La convertiré en posesión de erizos y en pantanos, y la barreré con la escoba del exterminio, dice Yavé de las huestes.
And I will appoint it as a possession for the hedgehog, with swamps of water. And I will sweep it out and wear it away with a brush, says the Lord of hosts.
24 Yavé de las huestes juró: Ciertamente lo que pensé sucederá y lo que decidí se realizará.
The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying: Surely, just as I have considered it, so shall it be, and in the same manner as I have drawn it through my mind,
25 Quebrantaré al asirio en mi tierra y sobre mis montañas lo pisotearé. Su yugo será quitado de ellos y la carga removida de sus hombros.
so shall it occur. So shall I crush the Assyrian in my land, and I will trample him upon my mountains, and his yoke will be taken away from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulder.
26 Éste es el designio acordado para toda la tierra, y ésta la mano extendida sobre todas las naciones,
This is the plan that I have decided, concerning the entire earth, and this is the hand which is extended over all the nations.
27 porque Yavé de las huestes lo determinó. ¿Quién podrá impedirlo? ¿Quién puede volver atrás su mano extendida?
For the Lord of hosts has decreed it, and who is able to weaken it? And his hand is extended, so who can avert it?
28 El año cuando murió el rey Acaz vino esta profecía:
In the year in which king Ahaz died, this burden was given:
29 No te alegres tú, toda Filistea, porque se rompió la vara del que te hería, y saldrá una víbora de la raíz de la serpiente. Su fruto será una feroz serpiente alada.
You should not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod of him who struck you has been crushed. For from the root of the serpent will go forth a king snake, and his offspring will engulf that which flies.
30 Entonces los primogénitos de los pobres serán apacentados y los necesitados descansarán confiadamente. Pero hará morir de hambre a tu raíz y matará de hambre a tus sobrevivientes.
And the firstborn of the poor will be pastured, and the poor will rest in faithfulness. And I will cause your root to pass away by famine, and I will put to death your remnant.
31 ¡Aúlla, puerta! ¡Grita, ciudad! ¡Desfallece, oh Filistea, toda tú! Porque un humo viene del norte, y no hay rezagado en sus huestes.
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! All of Philistia has been prostrated. For a smoke will arrive from the north, and there is no one who will escape his army.
32 ¿Qué se responderá a los mensajeros de las naciones? Que Yavé cimentó a Sion, y que en ella se refugian los afligidos de su pueblo.
And what will be the response to this news among the nations? It will be that the Lord has established Zion, and that the poor of his people will hope in him.
