Isaiah 27
1 At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
En aquel día Yahvé castigará con su espada cortante; grande y fuerte, a leviatán, la serpiente huidiza, a leviatán, la serpiente tortuosa, y matará al dragón que está en el mar.
2 At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
En aquel día (se dirá): “Cantad a la viña del vino generoso.
3 I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
Yo Yahvé soy quien la guardo y la riego cada momento para que nadie le haga daño. De noche y de día la guardo,
4 I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
ya que no tengo indignación (contra ella): ¡Que salgan espinas y zarzas para luchar (contra Mí)! marcharé contra ellas y las quemaré todas.
5 unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
O más bien que se acojan a mi fortaleza y hagan paz conmigo. Sí, harán paz conmigo.”
6 There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
En los días venideros se arraigará Jacob, Israel echará vástagos y flores y llenará con sus frutos a faz de la tierra.
7 [But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
¿Acaso Él le hirió como hirió a los que le herían? ¿O le mató de la misma manera que fueron muertos sus matadores?
8 [No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
Expulsándole con clemencia, contendiste con él. Con un fuerte soplo en un día de viento solano le expulsaste.
9 Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
Por tanto, con esto será expiada la culpa de Jacob; y este es todo su fruto: el perdón de su pecado, cuando haya hecho pedazos, como piedra de cal, todas las piedras de los altares, y no vuelvan a levantarse las ascheras ni las imágenes del sol.
10 The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
Pues la ciudad fuerte ha sido convertida en soledad, en morada abandonada y desamparada como el desierto; allí pacerá el becerro, allí tendrá su majada y consumirá sus retoños.
11 [The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
Se secan sus ramas y son quebradas; vienen mujeres y les prenden fuego; porque no es pueblo sabio; por eso Aquel que lo hizo no le tiene compasión, y no le es propicio el que lo formó.
12 [However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
En aquel día, Yahvé sacudirá la cosecha desde el curso del río hasta el torrente de Egipto; y vosotros, oh hijos de Israel, seréis recogidos uno por uno.
13 At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
Y sucederá en aquel día que sonará la gran trompeta; y vendrán los perdidos en la tierra de Asiria, y los exilados que vivan en el país de Egipto; y se prosternarán ante Yahvé en el monte santo, en Jerusalén.
