Isaías 47

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1 Baja, siéntate en el polvo, virgen, hija de Babel! ¡Siéntate en tierra, destronada, hija de los caldeos! Ya no se te volverá a llamar la dulce, la exquisita.	1 Descend, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground. There is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called delicate and tender.
2 Toma el molino y muele la harina. Despójate de tu velo, descubre la cola de tu vestido, desnuda tus piernas y vadea los ríos.	2 Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
3 Descubre tu desnudez y se vean tus vergüenzas. Voy a vengarme y nadie intervendrá.	3 Your disgrace will be revealed, and your shame will be seen. I will seize vengeance, and no man will withstand me.
4 Nuestro redentor, cuyo nombre es Yahveh Sebaot, el Santo de Israel, dice:	4 Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Siéntate en silencio y entra en la tiniebla, hija de los caldeos, que ya no se te volverá a llamar señora de reinos.	5 Sit in silence, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called the noblewoman of kingdoms.
6 Irritado estaba yo contra mi pueblo, había profanado mi heredad y en tus manos los había entregado; pero tú no tuviste piedad de ellos; hiciste caer pesadamente tu yugo sobre el anciano.	6 I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.
7 Tú decías: «Seré por siempre la señora eterna». No has meditado esto en tu corazón no te has acordado de su fin.	7 And you have said: “I will be a noblewoman forever.” You have not set these things upon your heart, and you have not remembered your end.
8 Pero ahora, voluptuosa, escucha esto, tú que te sientas en seguro y te dices en tu corazón: «¡Yo, y nadie más! No seré viuda, ni sabré lo que es carecer de hijos».	8 And now, hear these things, you who are delicate and have confidence, who say in your heart: “I am, and there is no one greater than me. I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know barrenness.”
9 Estas dos desgracias vendrán sobre ti en un instante, en el mismo día. Carencia de hijos y viudez caerán súbitamente sobre ti, a pesar de tus numerosas hechicerías y del poder de tus muchos sortilegios.	9 These two things will suddenly overwhelm you in one day: barrenness and widowhood. All things shall overwhelm you, because of the multitude of your sorceries and because of the great cruelty of your enchantments.
10 Te sentías segura en tu maldad, te decías: «Nadie me ve». Tu sabiduría y tu misma ciencia te han desviado. Dijiste en tu corazón: «¡Yo, y nadie más!»	10 And you have trusted in your malice, and you have said: “There is no one who sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge, these have deceived you. And you have said in your heart: “I am, and beside me there is no other.”
11 Vendrá sobre ti una disgracia que no sabrás conjurar; caerá sobre ti un desastre que no podrás evitar. Vendrá sobre ti súbitamente una devastación que no sospechas.	11 Evil will overwhelm you, and you will not notice its rising. And calamity will fall violently over you, and you will not be able to avert it. You will suddenly be overwhelmed by a misery such as you have never known.
12 ¡Quédate, pues, con tus sortilegios y tus muchas hechicerías con que te fatigas desde tu juventud! ¿Te podrán servir de algo? ¿Acaso harás temblar?	12 Stand with your incantations, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if somehow it might benefit you, or as if it were able to make you stronger.
13 Te has cansado de tus planes. Que se presenten, pues, y que te salven los que describen los cielos, los que observán las estrellas y hacen saber, en cada mes, lo que te sucederá.	13 You have failed in the multitude of your plans! Let the seers stand and save you, those who were contemplating the stars, and figuring the months, so that from these they might announce to you the things to come.
14 Mira, ellos serán como tamo que el fuego quemará. No librarán sus vidas del poder de las llamas. No serán brasas para el pan ni llama ante la cual sentarse.	14 Behold, they have become like stubble. Fire has consumed them. They will not free themselves from the power of the flames. These are not coals by which they may be warmed, nor is this a fire which they may sit beside.
15 Eso serán para ti tus hechiceros por los que te has fatigado desde tu juventud. Cada uno errará por su camino, y no habrá quien te salve.	15 So have all these things, in which you have labored, become to you. Your merchants from your youth, each one has erred in his own way. There is no one who can save you.