Isaías 51:12-22

12 «Yo, sí, yo soy quien te consuela.
Entonces, ¿por qué les temes a simples seres humanos
que se marchitan como la hierba y desaparecen?

13 Sin embargo, has olvidado al Señor
, tu Creador,
el que extendió el cielo como un dosel
y puso los cimientos de la tierra.
¿Vivirás en constante terror de los opresores humanos?
¿Seguirás temiendo el enojo de tus enemigos?
¿Dónde están ahora su furia y su enojo?
¡Han desaparecido!

14 Pronto quedarán libres los cautivos.
¡La prisión, el hambre y la muerte no serán su destino!

15 Pues yo soy el Señor
tu Dios,
que agito el mar haciendo que rujan las olas.
Mi nombre es Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales.

16 Y he puesto mis palabras en tu boca
y te he escondido a salvo dentro de mi mano.
Yo extendí
el cielo como un dosel
y puse los cimientos de la tierra.
Yo soy el que le dice a Israel:
“¡Tú eres mi pueblo!”».

17 ¡Despierta, oh Jerusalén, despierta!
Has bebido la copa de la furia del Señor
.
Has bebido la copa del terror,
la has vaciado hasta la última gota.

18 Ni uno de tus hijos queda con vida
para tomarte de la mano y guiarte.

19 Estas dos calamidades te han ocurrido:
la desolación y la destrucción, el hambre y la guerra.
Y ¿quién ha quedado para compadecerse de ti?
¿Quién ha quedado para consolarte?

20 Pues tus hijos se han desmayado y yacen en las calles,
tan indefensos como antílopes atrapados en una red.
El Señor
ha derramado su furia;
Dios los ha reprendido.

21 Pero ahora escuchen esto, ustedes los afligidos,
que están completamente borrachos,
aunque no por haber bebido vino.

22 Esto dice el Señor
Soberano,
su Dios y Defensor:
«Miren, yo les quité de las manos la copa aterradora;
ya no beberán más de mi furia.

Isaías 51:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 51

This chapter gives the church and people of God reason to expect comfortable times and certain salvation, though they had many enemies. They are directed to look to Abraham and Sarah, signified by the rock and hole of the pit, and observe how he was called alone, blessed and increased; which should be improved as an argument to strengthen their faith, that God could and would bless and increase his church, though in a low estate, and bring it into a flourishing one, Isa 51:1-3. They are assured of the publication of the Gospel, expressed by the law, doctrine, and judgment of the Lord; by which means the righteousness and salvation of Christ should be brought nigh to them, as the object of their trust and confidence, Isa 51:4,5, and also of the perpetuity of his righteousness and salvation, when the heavens, and the earth, and the inhabitants of it, should decay, even their revilers and persecutors, and therefore they need not fear their reproaches and revilings, Isa 51:6-8, upon which follows a prayer of faith, that the Lord would exert his power as in former times, when he destroyed the Egyptians, and dried up the Red sea for Israel to pass through, the ransomed of the Lord; from whence it might be concluded, that the redeemed of the Lord would be brought into a very comfortable condition again, Isa 51:9-11 wherefore they had no reason to be afraid of men, since the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth, would deliver, comfort, and establish them, of which he assured them by his prophet, Isa 51:12-16, and though Jerusalem and her sons were, or would be, in a very distressed condition, through the sword and famine, which is described, Isa 51:17-20, yet they should be delivered out of it, and their persecutors should be brought into the same, Isa 51:21-23.