Nehemiah 9
1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel assembled with fasting, and in sackcloths, and with ashes on their head.
Y a los veinte y cuatro días de este mes, los hijos de Israel se juntaron en ayuno, y en cilicios, y tierra sobre sí.
2 And the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Y habíase ya apartado la simiente de Israel de todos los extranjeros: y estando en pie confesaron sus pecados, y las iniquidades de sus padres.
3 And they stood in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their god: and they confessed [their sins] to the Lord, and worshipped the Lord their God.
Y levantáronse sobre su lugar, y leyeron en el libro de la ley de Jehová su Dios la cuarta parte del día, y la cuarta parte confesaron, y adoraron a Jehová su Dios.
4 [And] there stood upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jesus, and the sons of Cadmiel, Sechenia the son of Sarabia, sons of Choneni; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
Y levantáronse sobre la grada de los Levitas, Jesuá, y Bani, Cadmiel, Sabanías, Bunni, Serebías, Bani, y Canani, y clamaron a gran voz a Jehová su Dios.
5 And the Levites, Jesus and Cadmiel, said, Rise up, bless the Lord our God forever and ever: and let them bless your glorious name, and exalt it with all blessing and praise.
Y dijeron los Levitas, Jesuá, y Cadmiel, Bani, Hasebnías, Serebías, Odaías, Sebnías, Petahías: Levantáos, bendecíd a Jehová vuestro Dios desde el siglo hasta el siglo: y bendigan el nombre de tu gloria, y alto sobre toda bendición y alabanza.
6 And Esdras said, You are the only true Lord; you made the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all their array, the earth, and all things that are in it, the seas, and all things in them; and you quicken all things, and the hosts of heaven worship you.
Tú, oh Jehová, eres solo, tú hiciste los cielos y los cielos de los cielos, y todo su ejército: la tierra, y todo lo que está en ella: las mares, y todo lo que está en ellas: y vivificas todas estas cosas: y los ejércitos de los cielos te adoran.
7 You are the Lord God, you did choose Abram, and brought him out of the land of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name of Abraam:
Tú eres, oh Jehová, el Dios que escogiste a Abraham, y le sacaste de Ur de los Caldeos, y pusiste su nombre Abraham.
8 and you found his heart faithful before you, and did make a covenant with him to give to him and to his seed the land of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Jebusites, and Gergesites; and you have confirmed your words, for you [are] righteous.
Y hallaste fiel su corazón delante de ti, e hiciste con él alianza para darle la tierra del Cananeo, del Jetteo, y del Amorreo, y del Ferezeo, y del Jebuseo, y del Gergeseo, para dar la a su simiente: y cumpliste tu palabra, porque eres justo:
9 And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.
Y miraste la aflicción de nuestros padres en Egipto, y oíste el clamor de ellos en el mar Bermejo.
10 And you showed signs and wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for you know that they behaved insolently against them: and you made yourself a name, as at this day.
Y diste señales y maravillas en Faraón, y en todos sus siervos, y en todo el pueblo de su tierra: porque sabías que habían hecho soberbiamente contra ellos, y te hiciste nombre grande, como parece este día.
11 And you did cleave the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land; and you did cast into the deep them that were about to pursue them, as a stone in the mighty water.
Y partiste la mar delante de ellos; y pasaron por medio de ella en seco: y a sus perseguidores echaste en los profundos, como una piedra en grandes aguas.
12 And you guided them by day by a pillar of cloud, and by night by a pillar of fire, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.
Y con columna de nube los guiaste de día, y con columna de fuego de noche, para alumbrarles el camino por donde habían de ir.
13 Also you came down upon mount Sina, and you spoke to them out of heaven, and gave them right judgments, and laws of truth, ordinances, and good commandments.
Y sobre el monte de Sinaí descendiste, y hablaste con ellos desde el cielo, y les diste juicios rectos, y leyes verdaderas, y estatutos y mandamientos buenos.
14 And you did make known to them your holy sabbath; you did enjoin upon them commandments, and ordinances, and a law, by the hand of your servant Moses.
Y les notificaste el sábado de tu santidad; y les mandaste por mano de Moisés tu siervo mandamientos, y estatutos, y ley.
15 And you gave them bread from heaven for their food, and you brought them forth water from a rock for their thirst; and you bade them go in to inherit the land over which you stretched out your hand to give [it] them.
Y les diste pan del cielo en su hambre, y en su sed les sacaste aguas de la piedra: y les dijiste que entrasen a poseer la tierra, por la cual alzaste tu mano que se la habías de dar.
16 But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not listen to your commandments,
Mas ellos y nuestros padres hicieron soberbiamente, y endurecieron su cerviz, y no oyeron tus mandamientos,
17 and refused to listen, and remembered not your wonders which you wrought with them; and they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt: but you, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy, and you did not forsake them.
Y no quisieron oír, ni se acordaron de tus maravillas que habías hecho con ellos; mas endurecieron su cerviz, y pusieron cabeza para volverse a su servidumbre por su rebelión. Tú empero, Dios de perdones, clemente y piadoso, luengo de iras y de mucha misericordia, que no los dejaste.
18 And still farther they even made to themselves a molten calf, and said, These [are] the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they wrought great provocations.
Cuanto mas que hicieron para si becerro de fundición, y dijeron: Este es tu Dios que te hizo subir de Egipto: e hicieron abominaciones grandes.
19 Yet you in your great compassions did not forsake them in the wilderness: you did not turn away from them the pillar of the cloud by day, to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.
Empero tú, por tus muchas misericordias, no los dejaste en el desierto: la columna de nube no se apartó de ellos de día, para guiarlos por el camino, y la columna de fuego de noche, para alumbrarles el camino, por el cual habían de ir.
20 And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water in their thirst.
Y diste tu Espíritu bueno para enseñarles: y no detuviste tu man de su boca: y agua les diste en su sed.
21 And you did sustain them forty years in the wilderness; you did not allow anything to fail them: their garments did not wax old, and their feet were not bruised.
Y los sustentaste cuarenta años en el desierto: de ninguna cosa tuvieron necesidad; sus vestidos no se envejecieron, ni sus pies se hincharon.
22 Moreover, you gave them kingdoms, and did divide nations to them: and they inherited the land of Seon king of Esebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.
Y dísteles reinos y pueblos, y repartísteles la tierra por suertes: y poseyeron la tierra de Sejón, y la tierra del rey de Jesebón, y la tierra de Og rey de Basán.
23 And you did multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land of which you spoke to their fathers;
Y multiplicaste sus hijos como las estrellas del cielo, y los metiste en la tierra, de la cual habías dicho a sus padres, que habían de entrar en ella para heredarla:
24 And they inherited it: and you did destroy from before them the dwellers in the land of the Chananites, and you gave into their hands them and their kings, and the nations of the land, to do to them as it pleased them.
Porque los hijos vinieron y heredaron la tierra: y humillaste delante de ellos a los moradores de la tierra, los Cananeos, los cuales entregaste en su mano, y a sus reyes, y a los pueblos de la tierra, para que hiciesen de ellos a su voluntad.
25 And they took lofty cities, and inherited houses full of all good things, wells dug, vineyards, and olive yards, and every fruit tree in abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and grew fat, and rioted in your great goodness.
Y tomaron ciudades fortalecidas, y tierra gruesa: y heredaron casas llenas de todo bien, cisternas hechas, viñas, y olivares, y muchos árboles de comer: y comieron, y se hartaron, y se engrosaron, y se deleitaron en tu grande bondad.
26 But they turned, and revolted from you, and cast your law behind their backs; and they killed your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to you, and they wrought great provocations.
Y te enojaron, y se rebelaron contra ti, y echaron tu ley tras sus espaldas, y mataron tus profetas que protestaban contra ellos para convertirlos a ti, e hicieron abominaciones grandes.
27 Then you gave them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to you in the time of their affliction, and you did hear them from your heaven, and in your great compassions gave them deliverers, and did save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.
Y los entregaste en mano de sus enemigos, los cuales los afligieron: y en el tiempo de su tribulación clamaron a ti, y tú desde los cielos los oíste; y según tus muchas miseraciones, les dabas salvadores que los salvasen de mano de sus enemigos.
28 But when they rested, they did evil again before you: so you left them in the hands of their enemies, and they ruled over them: and they cried again to you, and you heard [them] from heaven, and did deliver them in your great compassions.
Mas en teniendo reposo, se volvían a hacer lo malo delante de ti: por lo cual los dejaste en mano de sus enemigos que se enseñorearon de ellos: mas convertidos clamaban otra vez a ti, y tú desde los cielos los oías, y según tus miseraciones los libraste muchos tiempos.
29 And you did testify against them, to bring them back to your law: but they listened not, but sinned against your commandments and your judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them; and they turned their back, and hardened their neck, and heard not.
Y les protestaste que se volviesen a tu ley: mas ellos hicieron soberbiamente, y no oyeron tus mandamientos: y en tus juicios pecaron en ellos, los cuales si el hombre hiciere vivirá por ellos: y dieron hombro rehuidor, y endurecieron su cerviz, y no oyeron.
30 Yet you did bear long with them many years, and did testify to them by your Spirit by the hand of your prophets: but they listened not; so you gave them into the hand of the nations of the land.
Y alargaste sobre ellos muchos años, y les protestaste con tu Espíritu por mano de tus profetas; mas no escucharon: por lo cual los entregaste en mano de los pueblos de las tierras.
31 But you in your many mercies did not appoint them to destruction, and did not forsake them; for you are strong, and merciful, and pitiful.
Mas por tus muchas misericordias no los consumiste, ni los dejaste; porque eres Dios clemente y misericordioso.
32 And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping your covenant and your mercy, let not all the trouble seem little in your sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all your people, from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.
Ahora pues, Dios nuestro, Dios grande, fuerte, terrible, que guardas el concierto y la misericordia, no sea disminuido delante de ti todo el trabajo que nos ha alcanzado, a nuestros reyes, a nuestros príncipes, a nuestros sacerdotes, y a nuestros profetas, y a nuestros padres, y a todo tu pueblo, desde los días de los reyes de Asiria hasta este día.
33 But you [are] righteous in all the things that come upon us; for you have wrought faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.
Tú empero eres justo en todo lo que ha venido sobre nosotros, porque verdad has hecho, y nosotros hemos hecho lo malo:
34 And our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our fathers, have not performed your law, and have not given heed to your commandments, and [have not kept] your testimonies which you did testify to them.
Y nuestros reyes, nuestros príncipes, nuestros sacerdotes, y nuestros padres no hicieron tu ley, ni escucharon a tus mandamientos, y a tus testimonios con que les protestabas.
35 And they did not serve you in your kingdom, and in your great goodness which you gave to them, and in the large and fat land which you did furnish before them, and they turned not from their evil devices.
Y ellos en su reino, y en tu mucho bien que les diste, y en la tierra ancha y gruesa que diste delante de ellos, no te sirvieron, ni se convirtieron de sus malas obras.
36 Behold, we are servants this day, and [as for] the land which you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good things of it, behold, we are servants upon it:
He aquí que hoy somos siervos: y en la tierra que diste a nuestros padres para que comiesen su fruto y su bien, he aquí somos siervos.
37 and its produce [is] abundant for the kings whom you did appoint over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.
Y se multiplica su fruto para los reyes que has puesto sobre nosotros por nuestros pecados, que se enseñorean sobre nuestros cuerpos, y sobre nuestras bestias, conforme a su voluntad: y estamos en grande angustia.
38 And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write [it], and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, set their seal to [it].
Y con todo eso nosotros hacemos fiel alianza, y la escribimos signada de nuestros príncipes, de nuestros Levitas, y de nuestros sacerdotes.
