1 Esdras Chapter 4: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ Then the second, who had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² “O sirs, don’t men excel in strength who rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ But yet the king is stronger. He is their lord and has dominion over them. In whatever he commands them, they obey him. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ If he tells them to make war against each other, they do it. If he sends them out against the enemies, they go, and conquer mountains, walls, and towers. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ They kill and are killed, and don’t disobey the king’s commandment. If they win the victory, they bring everything to the king—all the plunder and everything else. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ Likewise for those who are not soldiers, and don’t have anything to do with wars, but farm, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring some to the king and compel one another to pay tribute to the king. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ He is just one man! If he commands people to kill, they kill. If he commands them to spare, they spare. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ If he commands them to strike, they strike. If he commands them to make desolate, they make desolate. If he commands to build, they build. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ If he commands them to cut down, they cut down. If he commands them to plant, they plant. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ So all his people and his armies obey him. Furthermore, he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ and these keep watch around him. None of them may depart and do his own business. They don’t disobey him in anything. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² O sirs, how could the king not be the strongest, seeing that he is obeyed like this?” Then he stopped talking. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak: (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ “O sirs, isn’t the king great, and men are many, and isn’t wine strong? Who is it then who rules them, or has the lordship over them? Aren’t they women? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ Women have given birth to the king and all the people who rule over sea and land. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ They came from women. Women nourished up those who planted the vineyards, from where the wine comes. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Women also make garments for men. These bring glory to men. Without women, men can’t exist. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other beautiful thing, and see a woman who is lovely in appearance and beauty, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ they let all those things go and gape at her, and with open mouth stare at her. They all have more desire for her than for gold, or silver, or any other beautiful thing. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ A man leaves his own father who brought him up, leaves his own country, and joins with his wife. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ With his wife he ends his days, with no thought for his father, mother, or country. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² By this also you must know that women have dominion over you. Don’t you labor and toil, and bring it all to give to women? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ Yes, a man takes his sword and goes out to travel, to rob, to steal, and to sail on the sea and on rivers. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ He sees a lion and walks in the darkness. When he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to the woman he loves. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ Therefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ Yes, there are many who have lost their minds for women, and become slaves for their sakes. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ Now don’t you believe me? Isn’t the king great in his power? Don’t all regions fear to touch him? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ Yet I saw him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head. Yes, she struck the king with her left hand. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³¹ At this, the king gaped and gazed at her with open mouth. If she smiles at him, he laughs. But if she takes any displeasure at him, he flatters her, that she might be reconciled to him again. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³² O sirs, how can it not be that women are strong, seeing they do this?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³³ Then the king and the nobles looked at one another. So he began to speak concerning truth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁴ “O sirs, aren’t women strong? The earth is great. The sky is high. The sun is swift in its course, for it circles around the sky, and returns on its course again in one day. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁵ Isn’t he who makes these things great? Therefore the truth is great, and stronger than all things. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁶ All the earth calls upon truth, and the sky blesses truth. All works shake and tremble, but with truth there is no unrighteous thing. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁷ Wine is unrighteous. The king is unrighteous. Women are unrighteous. All the children of men are unrighteous, and all their works are unrighteous. There is no truth in them. They shall also perish in their unrighteousness. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁸ But truth remains, and is strong forever. Truth lives and conquers forevermore. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁹ With truth there is no partiality toward persons or rewards, but truth does the things that are just, instead of any unrighteous or wicked things. All men approve truth’s works. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁰ In truth’s judgment is not any unrighteousness. Truth is the strength, the kingdom, the power, and the majesty of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth!” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴¹ With that, he stopped speaking. Then all the people shouted and said, “Great is truth, and strong above all things!” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴² Then the king said to him, “Ask what you wish, even more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it to you, because you are found wisest. You shall sit next to me, and shall be called my cousin.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴³ Then he said to the king, “Remember your vow, which you vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁴ and to send back all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them back there. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁵ You also vowed to build the temple which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁶ Now, O lord the king, this is what I request, and what I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that may proceed from you: I ask therefore that you make good the vow, the performance of which you have vowed to the King of Heaven with your own mouth.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁷ Then King Darius stood up, kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those who would go up with him to build Jerusalem. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁸ He wrote letters also to all the governors who were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should help him build the city. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁹ Moreover he wrote for all the Jews who would go out of his realm up into Judea concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁰ and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute, and that the Edomites should give up the villages of the Jews which they held at that time, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵¹ and that there should be given twenty talents yearly toward the building of the temple, until the time that it was built, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵² and another ten talents yearly for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to make seventeen offerings, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵³ and that all those who would come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom—they and their descendants, and all the priests that came. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁴ He wrote also to give them their support and the priests’ vestments in which they minister. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁵ For the Levites he wrote that their support should be given them until the day that the house was finished and Jerusalem built up. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁶ He commanded that land and wages should be given to all who guarded the city. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁷ He also sent away all the vessels from Babylon that Cyrus had set apart, and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he commanded also to be done and to be sent to Jerusalem. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁸ Now when this young man had gone out, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁹ and said, “From you comes victory. From you comes wisdom. Yours is the glory, and I am your servant. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁰ Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom. I give thanks to you, O Lord of our fathers. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶¹ So he took the letters, went out, came to Babylon, and told it to all his kindred. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶² They praised the God of their ancestors, because he had given them freedom and liberty (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶³ to go up and to build Jerusalem and the temple which is called by his name. They feasted with instruments of music and gladness for seven days. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)