Jeremiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Jeremiah 17 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 «El pecado de Judá está escrito con una pluma de hierro. Con la punta de una piedra preciosa está grabado en sus corazones de piedra y en los cuernos de sus altares, como señal para ellos.
1 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
2 Sus altares y sus columnas de madera están bajo cada árbol frondoso, en las colinas altas y en los montes del campo.
2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
3 Daré tus riquezas y todas tus provisiones como botín de guerra, sin pago alguno, por tus pecados en toda tu tierra.
3 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
4 Tendrás que soltar la herencia que te di. Te haré servir a tus enemigos en una tierra que no conoces, porque han encendido mi ira como un fuego que arderá para siempre».
4 You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”
5 Así dice el Señor: «Maldito sea quien confía en el ser humano, se apoya en la fuerza humana y aparta su corazón del Señor.
5 Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
6 Será como un matorral en las tierras altas y no verá llegar el bien. Vivirá en los lugares secos del desierto, en una tierra salada y sin habitantes.
6 For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
7 Bendito sea quien confía en el Señor y pone su esperanza en él.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
8 Será como un árbol plantado junto al agua, que extiende sus raíces hacia la corriente. No temerá cuando llegue el calor y sus hojas seguirán verdes. En un año de sequía no se preocupará y seguirá dando fruto.
8 For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
9 El corazón es perverso y el ser humano no puede examinarlo a fondo. ¿Quién puede conocerlo?
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
10 Yo, el Señor, examino el corazón y pongo a prueba los pensamientos, para dar a cada uno lo que merece según su conducta y el fruto de sus acciones.
10 “I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
11 Como la perdiz que junta huevos pero no logra tener crías, es quien obtiene riquezas injustamente. Antes de la mitad de su vida, esas riquezas lo abandonarán, y al final quedará como un necio».
11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
12 Nuestro santuario es un trono glorioso, elevado desde el principio.
12 A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 Señor, esperanza de Israel, todos los que te abandonan serán avergonzados. Los que se alejan de ti serán eliminados de la tierra, porque han abandonado al Señor, la fuente de agua viva.
13 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
14 Sáname, Señor, y quedaré sano; sálvame y estaré a salvo, porque tú eres mi esperanza.
14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
15 Ellos me dicen: «¿Dónde está la palabra del Señor? ¡Que se cumpla ya!».
15 Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”
16 Yo no he dicho: «Que les llegue pronto el día de angustia», ni he deseado el día de muerte. Tú sabes lo que han dicho mis labios; todo estaba a la vista ante ti.
16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
17 No seas motivo de terror para mí; tú eres mi refugio en el día de desgracia.
17 Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
18 Que mis atacantes queden avergonzados, pero yo no; que ellos se llenen de terror, pero yo no. Trae sobre ellos el día de desgracia y destrúyelos con una destrucción doble.
18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19 El Señor me dijo: «Ve y ponte a la entrada de la puerta de Benjamín, por donde entran y salen los reyes de Judá, y en todas las puertas de Jerusalén.
19 Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Diles: Escuchen la palabra del Señor, reyes de Judá y todos los habitantes de Jerusalén que entran por estas puertas.
20 Tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21 Así dice el Señor: Cuídense de no llevar cargas el sábado ni introducirlas por las puertas de Jerusalén.
21 Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22 No saquen cargas de sus casas el sábado ni hagan ningún trabajo. Mantengan santo el sábado, como ordené a sus antepasados.
22 Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
23 Pero no prestaron atención ni quisieron escuchar. Se volvieron tercos para no escuchar ni recibir enseñanza.
23 But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
24 Si de verdad me escuchan», dice el Señor, «y no llevan cargas por las puertas de esta ciudad el sábado, sino que lo mantienen santo y no trabajan ese día,
24 It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
25 entonces por las puertas de esta ciudad entrarán reyes y príncipes que se sienten en el trono de David. Vendrán en carros y a caballo, ellos y sus príncipes, con los hombres de Judá y los habitantes de Jerusalén. Esta ciudad permanecerá para siempre.
25 then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.
26 Vendrán de las ciudades de Judá, de los alrededores de Jerusalén, de la tierra de Benjamín, de las tierras bajas, de los montes y del sur. Traerán al templo del Señor holocaustos, sacrificios de animales, ofrendas de harina, incienso y ofrendas de alabanza.
26 They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to Yahweh’s house.
27 Pero si no me escuchan ni mantienen santo el sábado, y llevan cargas por las puertas de Jerusalén ese día, prenderé un fuego en sus puertas que consumirá los palacios de Jerusalén y no se apagará».
27 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:3; Proverbs 7:3; Leviticus 4:25; Job 19:23–24
- 2 2 Chronicles 24:18; Jeremiah 2:20; Judges 3:7; 2 Chronicles 33:3; Isaiah 17:8
- 3 Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 26:18; 2 Kings 24:13; Isaiah 39:4–6; Ezekiel 6:3
- 4 Jeremiah 15:14; Lamentations 5:2; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 7:20; Mark 9:43–49
- 5 Psalm 118:8–9; Psalm 146:3–4; Isaiah 2:22; 2 Chronicles 32:8; Isaiah 31:1–9
- 6 Job 20:17; Psalm 1:4; Deuteronomy 29:23; Job 39:6; Jeremiah 48:6
- 7 Isaiah 26:3–4; Psalm 34:8; Psalm 40:4; Psalm 125:1; Isaiah 30:18
- 8 Psalm 1:3; Isaiah 58:11; Ezekiel 47:12; Ezekiel 31:4–10; Psalm 92:10–15
- 9 Mark 7:21–22; Matthew 15:19; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Proverbs 28:26; Hebrews 3:12
- 10 1 Samuel 16:7; Romans 8:27; Jeremiah 11:20; Revelation 2:23; Hebrews 4:12–13
- 11 Proverbs 28:20; Proverbs 21:6; Jeremiah 22:17; Jeremiah 22:13; Proverbs 15:27
- 12 Psalm 96:6; Jeremiah 3:17; Ezekiel 43:7; Ezekiel 1:26; Jeremiah 14:21
- 13 Revelation 7:17; John 4:14; John 7:37–38; John 4:10; Revelation 22:1
- 14 Psalm 6:2; Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 106:47; Psalm 6:4; Luke 4:18
- 15 Isaiah 5:19; Ezekiel 12:22; Jeremiah 20:7–8; Ezekiel 12:27–28; Amos 5:18
- 16 Acts 20:27; Jeremiah 4:19–20; Acts 20:20; Romans 9:1–3; Ezekiel 33:7–9
- 17 Nahum 1:7; Jeremiah 16:19; Psalm 59:16; Psalm 88:15–16; Job 31:23
- 18 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 40:14; Psalm 25:2–3; Psalm 83:17–18; Jeremiah 20:11
- 19 Jeremiah 7:2; Jeremiah 26:2; Acts 5:20; Jeremiah 36:10; Jeremiah 36:6
- 20 Jeremiah 19:3; Jeremiah 22:2; Ezekiel 2:7; Psalm 49:1–2; Micah 3:1
- 21 Nehemiah 13:15–21; Numbers 15:32–36; John 5:9–12; Deuteronomy 4:15; Deuteronomy 4:9
- 22 Ezekiel 20:12; Exodus 20:8–10; Isaiah 56:2–6; Isaiah 58:13; Deuteronomy 5:12–15
- 23 Proverbs 29:1; Acts 7:51; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 7:24–26
- 24 Deuteronomy 11:13; Jeremiah 17:21–22; 2 Peter 1:5–10; Exodus 15:26; Isaiah 21:7
- 25 Jeremiah 22:4; Isaiah 9:7; Jeremiah 33:15; Jeremiah 33:17; Jeremiah 33:21
- 26 Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13; Zechariah 7:7; Psalm 107:22; Psalm 116:17
- 27 2 Kings 25:9; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 21:14; Ezekiel 22:8; Amos 1:14
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