1Cantaré en nombre de mi amado un canto de amor respecto a su viña: Tuvo mi amado una viña en un collado fértil.2La cavó y despedregó, y plantó una preciada cepa. Construyó una torre en su centro, y cavó en ella un lagar. Esperó a que diera uvas, pero dio agrazones.3Y ahora, oh habitantes de Jerusalem y varones de Judá, Juzgad entre mí y mi viña.4¿Qué más cabía hacer por mi viña que Yo no hubiera hecho? ¿Por qué, esperando que diera uvas, dio agrazones?5Os mostraré pues lo que haré con mi viña: Quitaré su vallado para que sirva de pasto, Derribaré su cerca para que la pisoteen.6La dejaré arrasada, no será podada ni labrada, Le crecerán las zarzas y los espinos Y a las nubes impondré mandato para que no lluevan sobre ella.7La viña de YHVH Sebaot es la casa de Israel, Y los hombres de Judá su plantel preferido. Esperaba equidad, y he aquí iniquidad; Rectitud, ¡y he aquí acritud!
Seis ayes
8¡Ay de los que añaden casas a casas y juntan campos con campos, Hasta que todo lo ocupan y viven ellos solos en medio del país!9YHVH Sebaot ha dicho a mis oídos: Sus muchas casas serán arrasadas, sus magníficos palacios quedarán desolados;10Diez yugadas de viña darán un tonel, Y un homer de semilla un efa.11¡Ay de los que madrugan en busca de licores, y el vino los enardece hasta el crepúsculo!12Todo es arpa y salterio, flauta y tamboril, y vino en sus banquetes, Pero no consideran lo que YHVH ha hecho, Ni miran la obra de sus manos.13Y así mi pueblo, sin darse cuenta, marcha al cautiverio; Sus nobles mueren de hambre, y el vulgo se abrasa de sed.14Por eso el Seol ensancha sus fauces, y dilata su boca sin medida: Allá bajan nobles y plebeyos, Con su gloria y su alborozo, Y el que se regocijaba en ella.15Se doblegará el mortal, será humillado el hombre, Los ojos altivos se bajarán,16Pero YHVH Sebaot será exaltado al juzgar, Al sentenciar el Dios Santo mostrará su santidad.17Los chivos cebados tascarán en sus ruinas, Los corderos pastarán como en sus propios pastizales;18¡Ay de los que arrastran la iniquidad con cuerdas de bueyes, Y el pecado con sogas de carretas!19Que dicen: ¡Venga ya, apresúrese su obra para que la veamos! ¡Cúmplase ya el plan del Santo de Israel, para que lo comprobemos!20¡Ay de los que llaman al mal bien y al bien mal; Que hacen de la luz tinieblas y de las tinieblas luz; Que ponen lo amargo por dulce y lo dulce por amargo!21¡Ay de los que se tienen por sabios, Y a sí mismos se consideran prudentes!22¡Ay de los valientes para beber vino, Y de los aguerridos para mezclar licor;23De los que por soborno absuelven al culpable, Y a los inocentes le quitan su derecho!24Porque como la lengua de fuego devora el rastrojo, y la paja se consume en la llama, Su raíz se pudrirá y sus brotes se desvanecerán como el tamo, Porque desecharon la Ley de YHVH Sebaot, Y despreciaron la palabra del Santo de Israel.25Por eso la ira de YHVH se ha inflamado contra su pueblo, Y extiende su mano para herirlo. Los montes se estremecen y sus cadáveres yacen como basura en la calle; Y con todo, no se aplaca su ira: Su mano sigue extendida.26Alzará pendón a un pueblo lejano; Silbará hacia el extremo de la tierra: ¡Mirad cuán rápida y velozmente viene!27Nadie se cansa ni tropieza, Ninguno se acuesta ni se adormece, No se le afloja el cinto de sus lomos Ni se le rompe la correa de la sandalia.28Sus saetas están afiladas y todos sus arcos entesados; Los cascos de sus caballos son pedernal, Y las ruedas, torbellinos.29Su rugido es de león, ruge como los leoncillos, Gruñe, atrapa la presa, y la retiene, Y nadie se la arrebata.30Pero un día rugirán contra ella como rugen las olas del mar. Mirarán al país en tinieblas y en angustia, Y en sus cielos se oscurecerá la luz.
Isaías 5
King James Version
1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it : and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it !20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.25Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses'hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it .30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.