Jeremiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Jeremiah 12 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Señor, tú tienes razón cuando presento mi causa ante ti. Sin embargo, déjame hablar contigo acerca de tus decisiones: ¿por qué le va bien al malvado? ¿Por qué viven cómodamente los que practican el engaño?
1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
2 Tú los plantaste y echaron raíces; siguen creciendo y dando fruto. Te tienen cerca en sus labios, pero lejos de sus pensamientos.
2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
3 Pero tú, Señor, me conoces; me ves y examinas cómo está mi corazón contigo. Arráncalos como ovejas que van a morir; prepáralos para el día de su muerte.
3 But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 ¿Hasta cuándo llorará la tierra y estarán secas todas sus plantas? Por los pecados de quienes viven en ella han sido destruidos los animales y las aves, porque dijeron: «Dios no ve nuestra conducta».
4 How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
5 «Si correr con los soldados te ha cansado, ¿cómo podrás seguir el paso de los caballos? Si huyes en una tierra de paz, ¿qué harás en los matorrales del Jordán?
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
6 Hasta tus hermanos, la familia de tu padre, te han traicionado y gritan detrás de ti. No confíes en ellos, aunque te hablen con palabras agradables.
6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
7 He abandonado mi casa y dejado mi herencia. He entregado a la amada de mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.
7 “I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mi herencia se ha vuelto para mí como un león en el bosque. Ha rugido contra mí; por eso la odio.
8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
9 Mi herencia es para mí como un ave de vivos colores, rodeada de aves feroces que la atacan. Vayan y reúnan a todas las fieras del campo; tráiganlas para que la destruyan.
9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.
10 Los pastores han destruido mi viña y pisoteado mi herencia. Han convertido mi hermosa herencia en un desierto sin cultivar.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 La han dejado desolada y llora ante mí en su desolación. Toda la tierra está devastada, porque nadie se preocupa por ella.
11 They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
12 Han llegado destructores a todas las colinas despejadas del desierto. La espada del Señor destruye de un extremo al otro de la tierra; nadie tiene paz.
12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
13 Sembraron buen grano, pero cosecharon espinos. Se esforzaron sin obtener provecho. Su cosecha los avergonzará por la ira ardiente del Señor».
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
14 Así dice el Señor contra todos mis vecinos malvados que han puesto las manos sobre la herencia que di a mi pueblo Israel: «Voy a arrancarlos de su tierra, y arrancaré al pueblo de Judá de entre ellos.
14 Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 Después de arrancarlos, volveré a tenerles compasión y devolveré a cada uno a su herencia y a su tierra.
15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 Si se dedican a aprender los caminos de mi pueblo y a jurar por mi nombre, diciendo: “Tan cierto como que vive el Señor”, así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, entonces tendrán un lugar firme entre mi pueblo.
16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
17 Pero si no escuchan, arrancaré a esa nación y la destruiré», dice el Señor.
17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says Yahweh.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Malachi 3:15; Psalm 92:7; Psalm 37:1; Psalm 73:3–28; Psalm 37:35
- 2 Isaiah 29:13; Titus 1:16; Matthew 15:8; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 45:4
- 3 2 Kings 20:3; Jeremiah 17:18; Psalm 139:1–4; James 5:5; Psalm 17:3
- 4 Jeremiah 9:10; Psalm 107:34; Jeremiah 4:25; Hosea 4:3; Jeremiah 23:10
- 5 1 Peter 4:12; Proverbs 24:10; Hebrews 12:3–4; Psalm 69:1–2; Jeremiah 49:19
- 6 Proverbs 26:25; Psalm 12:2; Jeremiah 9:4; Micah 7:5–6; Genesis 37:4–11
- 7 Isaiah 2:6; Psalm 78:59–60; Jeremiah 11:15; Hosea 9:15; Lamentations 2:1–22
- 8 Amos 6:8; Hosea 9:15; Zechariah 11:8; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 51:38
- 9 Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 7:33; 2 Kings 24:2; Revelation 19:17–18; Ezekiel 23:22–25
- 10 Jeremiah 23:1; Isaiah 5:1–7; Isaiah 63:18; Psalm 80:8–16; Jeremiah 3:19
- 11 Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 23:10; Jeremiah 14:2; Jeremiah 12:4–8; Zechariah 7:5
- 12 Jeremiah 47:6; Amos 9:4; Ezekiel 14:17; Isaiah 34:6; Revelation 19:16–21
- 13 Haggai 1:6; Deuteronomy 28:38; Leviticus 26:16; Micah 6:15; Isaiah 55:2
- 14 Jeremiah 3:18; Zechariah 2:8; Zephaniah 2:8–10; Jeremiah 49:7; Zechariah 10:6–12
- 15 Jeremiah 49:6; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 49:39; Deuteronomy 30:3; Amos 9:14
- 16 Jeremiah 4:2; Joshua 23:7; Zephaniah 1:5; Jeremiah 3:17; Zechariah 2:11
- 17 Isaiah 60:12; Psalm 2:8–12; Daniel 7:4–8; Jeremiah 12:14–17; Zechariah 14:16–19
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Respecting such it is said in another place by the prophet, "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns;" because they teach what is good, and do what is evil.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
and the Lord Himself says in the Prophets, Mine heritage became unto Me as a lion in the forest; it gave its voice against Me; therefore have I hated it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)