Nehemiah · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Nehemiah 5 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Audio: Reina-Valera Antigua (RVA), read by Joyfull · About the recordings
1 Entonces se levantó un gran clamor del pueblo y de sus esposas contra sus compatriotas judíos.
1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
2 Algunos decían: «Somos muchos, nosotros, nuestros hijos y nuestras hijas. Necesitamos conseguir grano para poder comer y vivir».
2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 Otros decían: «Estamos hipotecando nuestros campos, nuestros viñedos y nuestras casas para conseguir grano porque hay hambre».
3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
4 Otros decían: «Hemos tenido que pedir dinero prestado para pagar los impuestos del rey sobre nuestros campos y viñedos.
4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
5 Nosotros somos de la misma carne que nuestros compatriotas, y nuestros hijos son como sus hijos. Sin embargo, estamos entregando a nuestros hijos y a nuestras hijas para que sean esclavos. Algunas de nuestras hijas ya están esclavizadas, y no podemos hacer nada, porque nuestros campos y viñedos están en manos de otros».
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
6 Cuando oí sus quejas y su clamor, me enojé mucho.
6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
7 Después de pensar bien el asunto, reprendí a los nobles y a los jefes. Les dije: «¡Cada uno de ustedes está cobrando intereses a su propio hermano!». Entonces convoqué una gran reunión contra ellos
7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
8 y les dije: «Hasta donde hemos podido, hemos rescatado a nuestros hermanos judíos que habían sido vendidos a las naciones. ¿Y ahora ustedes venden a sus propios hermanos para que tengamos que volver a comprarlos?». Ellos se quedaron callados y no encontraron qué responder.
8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
9 Continué: «Lo que ustedes hacen no está bien. ¿No deberían vivir en el temor de nuestro Dios para evitar la vergüenza que nuestros enemigos de otras naciones pueden traer sobre nosotros?
9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
10 Yo, mis hermanos y mis hombres también les hemos prestado dinero y grano. Dejemos de cobrar estos intereses.
10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
11 Devuélvanles hoy mismo sus campos, sus viñedos, sus olivares y sus casas, y también la parte que les han cobrado del dinero, el grano, el vino y el aceite».
11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
12 Ellos respondieron: «Se lo devolveremos y no les exigiremos nada más. Haremos lo que dices». Entonces llamé a los sacerdotes e hice que aquellos hombres juraran cumplir su promesa.
12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
13 Luego sacudí los pliegues de mi manto y dije: «Así sacuda Dios de su casa y de sus bienes a todo el que no cumpla esta promesa. Así quede sacudido y sin nada». Toda la asamblea respondió: «Amén», y alabó al Señor. Y el pueblo hizo lo que había prometido.
13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
14 Desde el día en que fui nombrado gobernador de Judá, desde el año veinte hasta el año treinta y dos del rey Artajerjes, durante doce años, ni yo ni mis hermanos comimos de la comida que correspondía al gobernador.
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
15 Los gobernadores anteriores habían cargado al pueblo y le quitaban pan y vino, además de cuarenta siclos de plata. Hasta sus servidores dominaban al pueblo. Pero yo no hice eso, porque temía a Dios.
15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
16 También me dediqué al trabajo de esta muralla. No adquirimos tierras para nosotros, y todos mis hombres se reunían allí para trabajar.
16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
17 Además, ciento cincuenta judíos y jefes comían a mi mesa, sin contar a los que venían a nosotros de las naciones vecinas.
17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
18 Cada día se preparaban para mí un buey, seis ovejas escogidas y aves. Cada diez días se traía gran cantidad de toda clase de vino. A pesar de esto, no exigí la comida que correspondía al gobernador, porque la carga sobre el pueblo ya era muy pesada.
18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
19 Acuérdate de mí, Dios mío, para bien, por todo lo que he hecho por este pueblo.
19 Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 5:7; Deuteronomy 15:7–11; Leviticus 25:35–37; Job 34:28; Job 31:38–39
- 2 Psalm 128:2–4; Malachi 2:2; Genesis 41:57; Psalm 127:3–5; Genesis 43:8
- 3 Leviticus 25:35–39; Malachi 3:8–11; Deuteronomy 15:7; Genesis 47:15–25
- 4 Ezra 4:13; Ezra 4:20; 1 Kings 9:21; Ezra 7:24; Nehemiah 9:37
- 5 2 Kings 4:1; Leviticus 25:39–43; Genesis 37:27; Isaiah 58:7; Exodus 21:1–11
- 6 Nehemiah 13:25; Exodus 11:8; Ephesians 4:26; Numbers 16:15; Nehemiah 13:8
- 7 Leviticus 25:36; Deuteronomy 23:19–20; Exodus 22:25; Ezekiel 22:12; 2 Chronicles 19:6–7
- 8 Leviticus 25:47–49; Deuteronomy 24:7; Matthew 25:15; 2 Corinthians 8:12; 1 Corinthians 8:11
- 9 Leviticus 25:36; Proverbs 18:5; Romans 2:24; 1 Peter 2:12; 2 Samuel 12:14
- 10 2 Corinthians 6:1; Exodus 22:25–27; Ezekiel 18:13; 1 Corinthians 9:12–18; Micah 2:1
- 11 Isaiah 58:6; Leviticus 6:4–5; Luke 3:8; 1 Samuel 12:3; Nehemiah 5:3–4
- 12 Ezra 10:5; Jeremiah 34:8–10; Nehemiah 10:29; Ezra 10:12; 2 Chronicles 6:22–23
- 13 Acts 18:6; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Matthew 10:14; Zechariah 5:3–4; Deuteronomy 27:14–26
- 14 Nehemiah 13:6; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Corinthians 9:4–15; Ezra 4:13–14
- 15 Nehemiah 5:9; Isaiah 50:10; Proverbs 16:6; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Job 31:23
- 16 Galatians 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:5–6; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Acts 20:33–35; Philippians 2:20–21
- 17 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Peter 4:9–10; 2 Samuel 9:7; Romans 12:13; Isaiah 32:8
- 18 1 Kings 4:22–23; Psalm 37:21; Psalm 37:26; Nehemiah 5:14–15
- 19 Nehemiah 13:31; Psalm 106:4; Nehemiah 13:14; Nehemiah 13:22; Jeremiah 29:11
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