Sabiduría 19

BIBLIA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Pero, sobre los impíos, descargó hasta el fin una ira sin misericordia, pues Dios sabía de antemano lo que iban a tramar:	1 But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:
2 que, luego de permitir marchar a su pueblo y apremiarle en su partida, mudando de parecer, saldrían a perseguirle.	2 For when they had given them leave to depart, and had sent them away with great care, they repented, and pursued after them.
3 Ocupados estaban todavía en su duelo y lamentándose junto a las tumbas de sus muertos, cuando concibieron otro proyecto insensato: a los que con ruegos despacharon, dieron en perseguirlos como fugitivos.	3 For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:
4 Una justa fatalidad los arrastraba a tales extremos y les borraba el recuerdo de los sucesos precedentes; así completarían con un nuevo castigo lo que a sus tormentos faltaba,	4 For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:
5 así mientras tu pueblo gozaba de un viaje maravilloso, ellos encontrarían una muerte extraña.	5 And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.
6 Pues para preservar a tus hijos de todo daño, la creación entera, obediente a tus órdenes, se rehízo de nuevo en su propia naturaleza.	6 For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
7 Se vio una nube proteger con su sombra el campamento, emerger del agua que la cubría una tierra enjuta, del mar Rojo un camino expedito, una verde llanura del oleaje impetuoso,	7 For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
8 por donde, formando un solo pueblo, pasaron los que tu mano protegía mientras contemplaban tan admirables prodigios.	8 Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
9 Como caballos se apacentaban, y retozaban como corderos alabándote a ti, Señor que los habías liberado.	9 For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
10 Recordaban todavía lo sucedido en su destierro, cómo, en vez de nacer los mosquitos de animales, los produjo la tierra, cómo, en vez de nacer las ranas de seres acuáticos, las vomitó el Río en abundancia.	10 For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
11 Más tarde, vieron además un modo nuevo de nacer las aves; cuando, llevados de la gula, pidieron manjares delicados,	11 And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite they asked for delicate meats.
12 para satisfacerles, subieron codornices desde el mar.	12 For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.
13 Mas sobre los pecadores cayeron los castigos, precedidos, como aviso, de la violencia de los rayos. Con toda justicia sufrían por sus propias maldades, por haber extremado su odio contra el extranjero.	13 For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.
14 Otros no recibieron a unos desconocidos a su llegada. pero éstos redujeron a esclavitud a huéspedes bienhechores.	14 And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.
15 Además habrá una visita para ellos porque recibieron hostilmente a los extranjeros...	15 But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.
16 pero éstos, después de acoger con fiestas a los que ya participaban en los mismos derechos que ellos, los aplastaron con terribles trabajos.	16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door.
17 Por eso, también fueron éstos heridos de ceguera, como aquéllos a las puertas del justo, cuando, envueltos en inmensas tinieblas, buscaba cada uno el acceso a su puerta.	17 For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.
18 Los elementos se adaptaron de una nueva manera entre sí como cambian la naturaleza del ritmo los sonidos en un salterio sin que cambie por eso su tonalidad, cosa que se puede deducir claramente examinando lo sucedido.	18 For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things before swam in the water passed upon the land.
19 Seres terrestres se tornaban acuáticos, y los que nadan pasaban a caminar sobre la tierra.	19 The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature.
20 El fuego aumentaba en el agua su fuerza natural y el agua olvidaba su poder de apagar.	20 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.
21 Por el contrario, las llamas no consumían las carnes de los endebles animales que sobre ellas caminaban, ni fundían aquel alimento divino, parecido a la escarcha, tan fácil de derretirse.
22 En verdad, Señor, que en todo engrandeciste a tu pueblo y le glorificaste, y no te descuidaste en asistirle en todo tiempo y en todo lugar.