Jeremiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

Jeremiah 5 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

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BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

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1 «Recorran de prisa las calles de Jerusalén, miren y averigüen. Busquen en sus plazas si hay alguien que sea justo y fiel; entonces perdonaré a la ciudad.

1 “Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

2 Aunque dicen: “Tan cierto como que vive el Señor”, sus juramentos son falsos».

2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

3 Señor, ¿no buscas sinceridad? Los castigaste, pero no les dolió; les enviaste destrucción, pero rechazaron tu enseñanza. Endurecieron el rostro más que una roca y se negaron a volver a ti.

3 O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

4 Entonces dije: «Estos son los pobres; son necios, porque no conocen el camino del Señor ni la conducta que su Dios desea.

4 Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

5 Iré a hablar con los hombres importantes, pues ellos conocen el camino del Señor y la conducta que su Dios desea». Pero todos ellos también habían roto el yugo y las ataduras.

5 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

6 Por eso un león del bosque los matará, un lobo del desierto los destruirá y un leopardo vigilará sus ciudades. Todos los que salgan serán devorados por las fieras, porque sus pecados son muchos y su maldad ha aumentado.

6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

7 «¿Cómo puedo perdonarte esto? Tus hijos me han abandonado y juran por dioses que no son dioses. Los alimenté hasta saciarlos, pero fueron infieles a sus esposas y buscaron placer en casas de prostitutas.

7 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

8 Estaban llenos de deseo, como caballos bien alimentados con grano; cada uno iba tras la esposa de su vecino.

8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

9 ¿No he de castigarlos por esto?», dice el Señor. «¿No he de dar su merecido a una nación como esta?

9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 Ataquen sus viñas y destrúyanlas, pero no las destruyan por completo. Quiten sus ramas, porque no pertenecen al Señor.

10 “Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.

11 El pueblo de Israel y el pueblo de Judá me han sido muy infieles», dice el Señor.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

12 Negaron al Señor y dijeron: «Él no hará nada. No nos vendrá ninguna desgracia ni sufriremos guerra ni hambre.

12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

13 Los profetas se volverán viento; la palabra no está en ellos. Eso les sucederá».

13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

14 Por eso el Señor, el Dios de los ejércitos, dice: «Porque ustedes han dicho esto, haré que mis palabras en tu boca sean fuego, y este pueblo será leña que el fuego consumirá.

14 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

15 Pueblo de Israel, voy a traer contra ti una nación de muy lejos», dice el Señor. «Es una nación fuerte y antigua, cuya lengua no conoces y cuyas palabras no entiendes.

15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

16 Sus flechas causan una muerte segura; todos son guerreros.

16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

17 Tomarán toda la cosecha de tus campos, que debía alimentar a tus hijos e hijas. Tomarán tus ovejas y reses, tus viñas e higueras, y destruirán con la espada las ciudades amuralladas en las que confías.

17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.

18 Pero aun en esos días», dice el Señor, «no permitiré que seas destruido por completo.

18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.

19 Cuando ellos pregunten: “¿Por qué nos ha hecho todo esto el Señor nuestro Dios?”, les responderás: “Así como me abandonaron y sirvieron a dioses extraños en su tierra, servirán a extranjeros en una tierra que no es suya”.

19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

20 Anuncien esto en Jacob y proclámenlo en Judá:

20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

21 Escucha esto, pueblo necio y sin entendimiento, que tiene ojos pero no ve y tiene oídos pero no oye.

21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

22 ¿No me temen?», dice el Señor. «¿No tiemblan ante mí? Yo puse la arena como límite del mar, por una orden eterna que no puede traspasar. Aunque el mar se agite, no lo logrará; aunque sus olas rujan, no podrán pasar ese límite.

22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

23 Pero este pueblo tiene un corazón rebelde que se aparta de mí; se ha soltado y se ha ido.

23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

24 No dicen en su corazón: “Adoremos al Señor nuestro Dios, que da a su tiempo las lluvias de invierno y de primavera y nos asegura las semanas señaladas para la cosecha”.

24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

25 Su maldad ha alejado estas cosas, y sus pecados los han privado del bien.

25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

26 Entre mi pueblo hay malvados que acechan como los que cazan aves: ponen una red y atrapan personas.

26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

27 Como una jaula llena de aves, sus casas están llenas de engaño. Por eso se han vuelto poderosos y ricos.

27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

28 Se han vuelto gordos y fuertes y han llegado muy lejos en su maldad. No defienden la causa del huérfano para que prospere, ni los derechos del pobre.

28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

29 ¿No he de castigarlos por esto?», dice el Señor. «¿No he de dar su merecido a una nación como esta?

29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 Algo asombroso y terrible ha sucedido en esta tierra:

30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

31 los profetas anuncian mentiras, y los sacerdotes gobiernan siguiendo sus instrucciones. A mi pueblo le gusta que sea así. Pero ¿qué harán ustedes al final?».

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

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Quotes verse 5:8 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XL)
Wherefore the prophet David says, "Man, being placed in honour, is made like unto cattle." And again Jeremiah says, "They are become like horses, furious about females; each one neighed after his neighbour's wife." And Isaiah, when preaching in Judea, and reasoning with Israel, termed them "rulers of Sodom" and "people of Gomorrah;" intimating that they were like the Sodomites …
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 5:30 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book IV, Chapters 11–14)
… of the synagogue of the Jews: "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests applaud them with their hands; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" O eloquence, which is the more terrible from its purity, and the more crushing from …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 5:22 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily IV)
"Fear ye not me, saith the Lord....which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea." A grain of sand, the weakest thing possible, curbs the violence of the ocean.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

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