2 Esdras Chapter 5: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ “Nevertheless, concerning the signs, behold, the days will come when those who dwell on earth will be taken with great amazement, and the way of truth will be hidden, and the land will be barren of faith. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² Iniquity will be increased above what now you see, and beyond what you have heard long ago. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ The land that you now see ruling will be a trackless waste, and men will see it desolate. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ But if the Most High grants you to live, you will see troubles after the third period. The sun will suddenly shine in the night, and the moon in the day. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ Blood will drop out of wood, and the stone will utter its voice. The peoples will be troubled, and the stars will fall. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ He will rule whom those who dwell on the earth don’t expect, and the birds will fly away together. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ The Sodomite sea will cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known; but all will hear its voice. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ There will also be chaos in many places. Fires will break out often, and the wild animals will change their places, and women will bring forth monsters. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ Salt waters will be found in the sweet, and all friends will destroy one another. Then reason will hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ It will be sought by many, and won’t be found. Unrighteousness and lack of restraint will be multiplied on earth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ One country will ask another, ‘Has righteousness, or a man that does righteousness, gone through you?’ And it will say, ‘No.’ (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² It will come to pass at that time that men will hope, but won’t obtain. They will labor, but their ways won’t prosper. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ I am permitted to show you such signs. If you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you will hear yet greater things than these.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ Then I woke up, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was so troubled that it fainted. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ So the angel who had come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me on my feet. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ In the second night, it came to pass that Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, “Where have you been? Why is your face sad? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Or don’t you know that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ Get up then, and eat some bread, and don’t forsake us, like a shepherd who leaves the flock in the power of cruel wolves.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ Then said I to him, “Go away from me and don’t come near me for seven days, and then you shall come to me.” He heard what I said and left me. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like Uriel the angel had commanded me. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ After seven days, the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ I said, “O sovereign Lord of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen one vine for yourself. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ Of all the lands of the world you have chosen one country for yourself. Of all the flowers of the world, you have chosen one lily for yourself. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ Of all the depths of the sea, you have filled one river for yourself. Of all built cities, you have consecrated Zion for yourself. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ Of all the birds that are created you have named for yourself one dove. Of all the livestock that have been made, you have provided for yourself one sheep. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ Among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten yourself one people. To this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved by all. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁸ Now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁹ Those who opposed your promises have trampled down those who believed your covenants. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁰ If you really do hate your people so much, they should be punished with your own hands.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³¹ Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³² and said to me, “Hear me, and I will instruct you. Listen to me, and I will tell you more.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³³ I said, “Speak on, my Lord.” Then said he to me, “You are very troubled in mind for Israel’s sake. Do you love that people more than he who made them?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁴ I said, “No, Lord; but I have spoken out of grief; for my heart is in agony every hour while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgment.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁵ He said to me, “You can’t.” And I said, “Why, Lord? Why was I born? Why wasn’t my mother’s womb my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the people of Israel?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁶ He said to me, “Count for me those who haven’t yet come. Gather together for me the drops that are scattered abroad, and make the withered flowers green again for me. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁷ Open for me the chambers that are closed, and bring out the winds for me that are shut up in them. Or show me the image of a voice. Then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁸ And I said, “O sovereign Lord, who may know these things except he who doesn’t have his dwelling with men? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³⁹ As for me, I lack wisdom. How can I then speak of these things you asked me about?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁰ Then said he to me, “Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so you can’t find out my judgment, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴¹ I said, “But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who are alive at the end. What should they do who have been before us, or we ourselves, or those who will come after us?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴² He said to me, “I will compare my judgment to a ring. Just as there is no slowness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴³ So I answered, “Couldn’t you make them all at once that have been made, and that are now, and that are yet to come, that you might show your judgment sooner?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁴ Then he answered me, “The creature may not move faster than the creator, nor can the world hold them at once who will be created in it.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁵ And I said, “How have you said to your servant, that you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? If therefore they will be alive at once, and the creation will sustain them, even so it might now also support them to be present at once.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁶ And he said to me, “Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, ‘If you bear ten children, why do you it at different times? Ask her therefore to give birth to ten children at once.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁷ I said, “She can’t, but must do it each in their own time.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁸ Then said he to me, “Even so, I have given the womb of the earth to those who are sown in it in their own times. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴⁹ For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, even so have I organized the world which I created.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁰ I asked, “Seeing that you have now shown me the way, I will speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? Or does she now draw near to old age?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵¹ He answered me, “Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵² Say to her, ‘Why aren’t they whom you have now brought forth like those who were before, but smaller in stature?’ (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵³ She also will answer you, ‘Those who are born in the strength of youth are different from those who are born in the time of old age, when the womb fails.’ (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁴ Consider therefore you also, how you are shorter than those who were before you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁵ So are those who come after you smaller than you, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵⁶ Then I said, “Lord, I implore you, if I have found favor in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creation.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)