Isaías 24
1 ¡Estén atentos! El Señor va a destruir la tierra, para dejarla totalmente devastada. Va a destrozar la superficie de la tierra y a dispersar a sus habitantes.
Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
2 Sucederá lo mismo con todos, ya sean personas o sacerdotes, siervos o sus amos, criadas o sus amantes, compradores o vendedores, prestamistas o prestados, acreedores o deudores.
He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
3 La tierra será completamente asolada y saqueada. Esto es lo que ha dicho el Señor.
Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
4 La tierra se seca y se marchita; el mundo se seca y se marchita, los altos y poderosos se marchitan junto con la tierra.
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
5 La tierra está contaminada por su gente; han despreciado las leyes de Dios, han violado sus reglamentos y han quebrantado el acuerdo eterno con él.
The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
6 Por eso una maldición está destruyendo la tierra. El pueblo sufre por su culpa. Los habitantes de la tierra se consumen y sólo unos pocos sobreviven.
Therefore, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
7 El vino nuevo se seca y la vid se marchita. Todo el pueblo que celebra gime.
The grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
8 El alegre sonido de las panderetas ha terminado; el ruido de los juerguistas ha cesado; la deliciosa música de arpa se ha acabado,
People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
9 la gente ya no canta mientras bebe vino, y la cerveza sabe amarga.
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
10 La caótica ciudad se desmorona; todas las casas están cerradas con barrotes para impedir el paso a los demás.
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
11 Las multitudes en la calle gritan, exigiendo tener vino. La alegría se convierte en oscuridad. No queda felicidad en la tierra.
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
12 La ciudad está en un horrible estado de ruina; sus puertas han sido derribadas.
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
13 Así va a ser en toda la tierra entre las naciones: sólo quedan unas pocas aceitunas después de sacudir el árbol, sólo quedan unas pocas uvas para espigar después de la cosecha.
It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
14 Estos supervivientes gritan y cantan de alegría. Desde el oeste alaban la majestad del Señor.
But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
15 Desde el oriente glorifican al Señor; desde las orillas del mar alaban el nombre del Señor, el Dios de Israel.
people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
16 Desde los confines de la tierra se oyen cánticos que dicen: “Gloria al Dios que hace el bien”. Pero yo soy miserable, miserable. Tengan piedad de mí. La gente engañosa sigue traicionando, una y otra vez.
We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
17 Terrores, trampas y lazos los esperan, pueblos de la tierra.
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
18 Los que huyan aterrorizados caerán en una fosa, y los que escapen de la fosa serán atrapados en un lazo. Las ventanas del cielo se abren; los cimientos de la tierra tiemblan.
Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 La tierra tiembla por completo, se desgarra y se sacude violentamente.
The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
20 La tierra se tambalea de un lado a otro como un borracho, y se balancea de un lado a otro como una choza. La culpa de su rebeldía pesa sobre ella, y se derrumba para no volver a levantarse.
[It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
21 En ese momento el Señor castigará a todos los altos seres celestiales y a los reyes de la tierra.
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
22 Serán reunidos, prisioneros en una fosa. Serán encarcelados, y finalmente serán castigados.
They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
23 La luna tendrá vergüenza y el sol ocultará su rostro abochornado, porque el Señor Todopoderoso reinará con gloria en el monte Sión y en Jerusalén en presencia de sus dirigentes.
At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
