2 Esdras Chapter 16: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

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¹ Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! Woe to you, Egypt and Syria! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ A fire has been sent upon you, and who is there to quench it? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ Calamities are sent upon you, and who is there to drive them away? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ Can one drive away a hungry lion in the forest? Can one quench a fire in stubble, once it has begun to burn? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ Can one turn back an arrow that is shot by a strong archer? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ The Lord God sends the calamities, and who will drive them away? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ A fire will go out from his wrath, and who may quench it? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ He will flash lightning, and who will not fear? He will thunder, and who wouldn’t tremble? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ The Lord will threaten, and who will not be utterly broken in pieces at his presence? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² The earth and its foundations quake. The sea rises up with waves from the deep, and its waves will be troubled, along with the fish in them, at the presence of the Lord, and before the glory of his power. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ For his right hand that bends the bow is strong, his arrows that he shoots are sharp, and will not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ Behold, the calamities are sent out, and will not return again until they come upon the earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ The fire is kindled and will not be put out until it consumes the foundations of the earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ Just as an arrow which is shot by a mighty archer doesn’t return backward, even so the calamities that are sent out upon earth won’t return again. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Woe is me! Woe is me! Who will deliver me in those days? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ The beginning of sorrows, when there will be great mourning; the beginning of famine, and many will perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers will stand in fear; the beginning of calamities, and all will tremble! What will they do when the calamities come? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ Behold, famine and plague, suffering and anguish! They are sent as scourges for correction. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ But for all these things they will not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ Behold, food will be so cheap on earth that they will think themselves to be in good condition, and even then calamities will grow on earth: sword, famine, and great confusion. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² For many of those who dwell on earth will perish of famine; and others who escape the famine, the sword will destroy. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ The dead will be cast out like dung, and there will be no one to comfort them; for the earth will be left desolate, and its cities will be cast down. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ There will be no farmer left to cultivate the earth or to sow it. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ for one man will desire to see another, or to hear his voice. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ For of a city there will be ten left, and two of the field, who have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there may be left three or four olives, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are some clusters left by those who diligently search through the vineyard, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³¹ even so in those days, there will be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³² The earth will be left desolate, and its fields will be for briers, and its roads and all her paths will grow thorns, because no sheep will pass along them. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³³ The virgins will mourn, having no bridegrooms. The women will mourn, having no husbands. Their daughters will mourn, having no helpers. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁴ Their bridegrooms will be destroyed in the wars, and their husbands will perish of famine. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁵ Hear now these things, and understand them, you servants of the Lord. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁶ Behold, the Lord’s word: receive it. Don’t doubt the things about which the Lord speaks. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁷ Behold, the calamities draw near, and are not delayed. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁸ Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours great pains surround her womb, and when the child comes out from the womb, there will be no waiting for a moment, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁹ even so the calamities won’t delay coming upon the earth. The world will groan, and sorrows will seize it on every side. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁰ “O my people, hear my word: prepare for battle, and in those calamities be like strangers on the earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴¹ He who sells, let him be as he who flees away, and he who buys, as one who will lose. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴² Let he who does business be as he who has no profit by it, and he who builds, as he who won’t dwell in it, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴³ and he who sows, as if he wouldn’t reap, so also he who prunes the vines, as he who won’t gather the grapes, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁴ those who marry, as those who will have no children, and those who don’t marry, as the widowed. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁵ Because of this, those who labor, labor in vain; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁶ for foreigners will reap their fruits, plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine they will conceive their children. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁷ Those who conduct business, do so only to be plundered. The more they adorn their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁸ the more I will hate them for their sins,” says the Lord. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁹ Just as a respectable and virtuous woman hates a prostitute, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁰ so will righteousness hate iniquity when she adorns herself, and will accuse her to her face when he comes who will defend him who diligently searches out every sin on earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵¹ Therefore don’t be like her or her works. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵² For yet a little while, and iniquity will be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness will reign over us. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵³ Don’t let the sinner say that he has not sinned; for God will burn coals of fire on the head of one who says “I haven’t sinned before God and his glory.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁴ Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁵ He said, “Let the earth be made,” and it was made, “Let the sky be made,” and it was made. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁶ At his word, the stars were established, and he knows the number of the stars. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁷ He searches the deep and its treasures. He has measured the sea and what it contains. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁸ He has shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word, he hung the earth over the waters. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁹ He has spread out the sky like a vault. He has founded it over the waters. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁰ He has made springs of water in the desert and pools on the tops of the mountains to send out rivers from the heights to water the earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶¹ He formed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶² yes, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things and searches out hidden things in hidden places, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶³ surely he knows your imagination, and what you think in your hearts. Woe to those who sin, and try to hide their sin! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁴ Because the Lord will exactly investigate all your works, and he will put you all to shame. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁵ When your sins are brought out before men, you will be ashamed, and your own iniquities will stand as your accusers in that day. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁶ What will you do? Or how will you hide your sins before God and his angels? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁷ Behold, God is the judge. Fear him! Stop sinning, and forget your iniquities, to never again commit them. So will God lead you out, and deliver you from all suffering. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁸ For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they will take away some of you, and feed you with that which is sacrificed to idols. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶⁹ Those who consent to them will be held in derision and in contempt, and be trodden under foot. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁰ For there will be in various places, and in the next cities, a great insurrection against those who fear the Lord. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷¹ They will be like mad men, sparing none, but spoiling and destroying those who still fear the Lord. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷² For they will destroy and plunder their goods, and throw them out of their houses. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷³ Then the trial of my elect will be made known, even as the gold that is tried in the fire. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁴ Hear, my elect ones, says the Lord: “Behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁵ Don’t be afraid, and don’t doubt, for God is your guide. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁶ You who keep my commandments and precepts,” says the Lord God, “don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift themselves up.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁷ Woe to those who are choked with their sins and covered with their iniquities, like a field is choked with bushes, and its path covered with thorns, that no one may travel through! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷⁸ It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)