| 1 Tocad la trompeta en Sión, | gritad en mi monte santo, | se estremecen todos los habitantes del país, | pues llega el Día del Señor. | Sí, se acerca, | 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, it is near, |
| 2 día de oscuridad y negrura, | día de niebla y oscuridad, | como el alba, sobre los montes, | avanza un gentío innumerable, | poderoso como nunca lo hubo | ni lo habrá tras él por generaciones. | 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. |
| 3 El fuego devora por delante, | por detrás consume la llama; | el país ante él es un Edén, | tras él desierto y desolación. | ¡No deja ni rastro! | 3 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. |
| 4 Parecen caballos, | pasan como jinetes; | 4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. |
| 5 como ruido de carros, | brincando por las cimas de los montes; | como chisporroteo de fuego | que devora la paja; | como gentío inmenso, | dispuesto para la guerra. | 5 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. |
| 6 Ante él los pueblos se estremecen | y todos palidecen. | 6 Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale. |
| 7 Corren como valientes, | como guerreros trepan por las murallas; | cada cual marcha en su lugar, | no se estorban en su andar. | 7 Like warriors they charge, like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way, they do not swerve from their paths. |
| 8 Nadie estorba a su vecino, | cada cual avanza por su camino; | aunque pasen entre flechas, | no se desconciertan. | 8 They do not jostle one another, each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted. |
| 9 Asaltan la ciudad, | corren por las murallas, | entran por las ventanas de las casas a robar. | 9 They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief. |
| 10 Ante ellos se estremece la tierra, | tiemblan los cielos; | el sol y la luna se ensombrecen, | las estrellas pierden su brillo. | 10 The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. |
| 11 El Señor grita a su ejército, | pues muchos son sus campamentos, | innumerables los que cumplen su palabra. | Grande es el Día del Señor, | terrible, ¿quién podrá con él? | 11 The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his host is exceedingly great; he that executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can endure it? |
| 12 Pues bien —oráculo del Señor—, | convertíos a mí de todo corazón, | con ayunos, llantos y lamentos; | 12 "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; |
| 13 rasgad vuestros corazones, no vuestros vestidos, | y convertíos al Señor vuestro Dios, | un Dios compasivo y misericordioso, | lento a la cólera y rico en amor, | que se arrepiente del castigo. | 13 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. |
| 14 ¡Quién sabe si cambiará y se arrepentirá | dejando tras de sí la bendición, | ofrenda y libación | para el Señor, vuestro Dios! | 14 Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the LORD, your God? |
| 15 Tocad la trompeta en Sión, | proclamad un ayuno santo, | convocad a la asamblea, | 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly; |
| 16 reunid a la gente, | santificad a la comunidad, | llamad a los ancianos; | congregad a los muchachos | y a los niños de pecho; | salga el esposo de la alcoba | y la esposa del tálamo. | 16 gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. |
| 17 Entre el atrio y el altar | lloren los sacerdotes, | servidores del Señor, | y digan: | Ten compasión de tu pueblo, Señor; | no entregues tu heredad al oprobio | ni a las burlas de los pueblos. | ¿Por qué van a decir las gentes: | «Dónde está su Dios»? | 17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare thy people, O LORD, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?" |
| 18 Entonces se encendió | el celo de Dios por su tierra | y perdonó a su pueblo; | 18 Then the LORD became jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. |
| 19 le respondió diciendo: | Voy a enviaros grano, | mosto y aceite hasta hartaros. | Ya no os entregaré más | al escarnio de los pueblos. | 19 The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. |
| 20 Alejaré de vosotros | al enemigo del norte; | lo expulsaré a una tierra | yerma y desolada; | la vanguardia, hacia el mar de Oriente, | la retaguardia, hacia el mar de Poniente. | Se extenderá su fetidez, | se esparcirá su hedor, | porque el Señor ha hecho cosas grandes. | 20 "I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his front into the eastern sea, and his rear into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things. |
| 21 No temas, tierra; goza y alégrate, | porque el Señor se engrandece por su acción. | 21 "Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things! |
| 22 No temáis fieras del campo, | pues florecen las dehesas, | y los árboles dan su producto, | la higuera y la viña dan su fruto. | 22 Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield. |
| 23 Hijos de Sión, gozaos y alegraos | en el Señor vuestro Dios, | pues os da la lluvia temprana | en su momento, y os envía el agua: | la temprana y la de primavera | en el primer mes. | 23 "Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before. |
| 24 Se llenarán las eras de grano, | los lagares rebosarán de mosto y aceite. | 24 "The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. |
| 25 Les daré el doble del bienestar | que se llevó el saltón, la caballeta, | el saltamontes y la langosta, | mi gran ejército que envié contra ellos. | 25 I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. |
| 26 Comeréis y os hartaréis, | y alabaréis el nombre | del Señor vuestro Dios, | que actuó con vosotros | con tantas maravillas. | Y mi pueblo no tendrá | que avergonzarse nunca más. | 26 "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame. |
| 27 Reconoceréis que yo estoy | en medio de Israel, | que yo soy el Señor vuestro Dios | y que no hay otro. | Y mi pueblo no tendrá | que avergonzarse nunca más». | 27 You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the LORD, am your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame. |
| 28 "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. |
| 29 Even upon the menservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my spirit. |
| 30 "And I will give portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. |
| 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. |
| 32 And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the LORD shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. |
