Jeremiah · Catholic Public Domain Version
Jeremiah 10 Catholic Public Domain Version
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 Listen to the word that the Lord has spoken concerning you, O house of Israel.
1 OID la palabra que Jehová ha hablado sobre vosotros, oh casa de Israel.
2 Thus says the Lord: “Do not choose to learn according to the ways of the Gentiles. And do not be willing to dread the signs of heaven, which the Gentiles fear.
2 Así dijo Jehová: No aprendáis el camino de las gentes, ni de las señales del cielo tengáis temor, aunque las gentes las teman.
3 For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe.
3 Porque las ordenanzas de los pueblos son vanidad: porque leño del monte cortaron, obra de manos de artífice con azuela.
4 He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart.
4 Con plata y oro lo engalanan; con clavos y martillo lo afirman, para que no se salga.
5 They have been fabricated in the likeness of a palm tree, and they will not speak. They must be carried to be moved, because they do not have the ability to walk. Therefore, do not be willing to fear them, for they can do neither evil nor good.”
5 Como palma lo igualan, y no hablan; son llevados, porque no pueden andar. No tengáis temor de ellos; porque ni pueden hacer mal, ni para hacer bien tienen poder.
6 No hay semejante á ti, oh Jehová; grande tú, y grande tu nombre en fortaleza.
7◆ Who will not fear you, O King of the nations? For honor is yours. Among all the wise of the nations, and within all their kingdoms, there is nothing similar to you.
7 ¿Quién no te temerá, oh Rey de las gentes? porque á ti compete ello; porque entre todos los sabios de las gentes, y en todos sus reinos, no hay semejante á ti.
8◆ Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.
8 Y todos se infatuarán, y entontecerán. Enseñanza de vanidades es el mismo leño.
9◆ Rolled silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. It is the work of a craftsman, and of the hand of a coppersmith. Hyacinth and purple is their clothing. All these things are the work of artists.
9 Traerán plata extendida de Tarsis, y oro de Uphaz; obrará el artífice, y las manos del fundidor; vestiránlos de cárdeno y de púrpura: obra de peritos es todo.
10◆ But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. Before his indignation, the earth will shake. And the Gentiles will not be able to withstand his threats.
10 Mas Jehová Dios es la verdad; él es Dios vivo y Rey eterno: á su ira tiembla la tierra, y las gentes no pueden sufrir su saña.
11 “And so, you shall speak to them in this way: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth and from among those places which are under heaven.
11 Les diréis así: Los dioses que no hicieron los cielos ni la tierra, perezcan de la tierra y de debajo de estos cielos.
12 He made the earth by his power, he prepared the world in his wisdom, and he stretched out the heavens with his understanding.
12 El que hizo la tierra con su potencia, el que puso en orden el mundo con su saber, y extendió los cielos con su prudencia;
13 At his voice, he grants a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he lifts up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He causes the lightning with the rain, and he leads forth the wind from his storehouses.
13 A su voz se da muchedumbre de aguas en el cielo, y hace subir las nubes de lo postrero de la tierra; hace los relámpagos con la lluvia, y saca el viento de sus depósitos.
14 Every man has become a fool concerning knowledge; every artist has been confounded by his graven image. For what he has formed is false, and there is no spirit in these things.
14 Todo hombre se embrutece [y le] falta ciencia; avergüéncese de su vaciadizo todo fundidor: porque mentira es su obra de fundición, y no hay espíritu en ellos;
15 These things are empty, and they are a work deserving of ridicule. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
15 Vanidad son, obra de escarnios: en el tiempo de su visitación perecerán.
16 Jacob’s portion is not like their portion. For his portion is from the One who formed all things. And Israel is the staff of his inheritance. The Lord of hosts is his name.
16 No es como ellos la suerte de Jacob: porque él es el Hacedor de todo, é Israel es la vara de su herencia: Jehová de los ejércitos es su nombre.
17 Gather your shame from the earth, you who are living under siege.”
17 Recoge de las tierras tus mercaderías, la que moras en lugar fuerte.
18 For thus says the Lord: “Behold, in this turn, I will cast the inhabitants of the land far away. And I will afflict them no matter where they may be found.”
18 Porque así ha dicho Jehová: He aquí que esta vez arrojaré con honda los moradores de la tierra, y he de afligirlos, para que [lo] hallen.
19 Woe to me, concerning my destruction! My wound is very grievous. And yet I said: Clearly, this infirmity is mine, and I will carry it.
19 ¡Ay de mí, por mi quebrantamiento! mi llaga es muy dolorosa. Yo empero dije: Ciertamente enfermedad mía es esta, y debo sufrirla.
20 My tent has been destroyed. All my cords have been broken. My sons have gone away from me; they did not remain. There is no one to stretch out my tent any more, nor to set up my curtains.
20 Mi tienda es destruída, y todas mis cuerdas están rotas: mis hijos fueron sacados de mí, y perecieron: no hay ya más quien extienda mi tienda, ni quien levante mis cortinas.
21 For the pastors have acted foolishly, and they have not sought the Lord. Because of this, they have not understood, and all their flock has been dispersed.
21 Porque los pastores se infatuaron, y no buscaron á Jehová: por tanto no prosperaron, y todo su ganado se esparció.
22 Behold, the sound of a voice approaches, a great commotion from the land of the north: so that he may make the cities of Judah into a wilderness and into a dwelling place for serpents.
22 He aquí que voz de fama viene, y alboroto grande de la tierra del aquilón, para tornar en soledad todas las ciudades de Judá, en morada de culebras.
23 I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his own. Neither is it given to man to walk and to direct his own steps.
23 Conozco, oh Jehová, que el hombre no es señor de su camino, ni del hombre que camina es ordenar sus pasos.
24 Correct me, O Lord, yet truly, do so with judgment, and not in your fury. Otherwise, you will reduce me to nothing.
24 Castígame, oh Jehová, mas con juicio; no con tu furor, porque no me aniquiles.
25 Pour out your indignation upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the provinces that have not invoked your name. For they have fed upon Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and they have utterly destroyed his honor.
25 Derrama tu enojo sobre las gentes que no te conocen, y sobre las naciones que no invocan tu nombre: porque se comieron á Jacob, y lo devoraron, y le han consumido, y asolado su morada.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 13:15–17; Jeremiah 42:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hosea 4:1; Revelation 2:29
- 2 Leviticus 20:23; Leviticus 18:3; Luke 21:25–28; Ezekiel 20:32; Deuteronomy 12:30–31
- 3 1 Peter 1:18; Isaiah 44:9–20; Leviticus 18:30; Jeremiah 10:8; Romans 1:21
- 4 Isaiah 46:7; Isaiah 40:19–20; Isaiah 41:6–7; Isaiah 44:12; Psalm 115:4
- 5 Isaiah 46:7; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Psalm 115:5–8; Isaiah 41:23–24; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 6 Psalm 96:4; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 48:1; Deuteronomy 33:26; Isaiah 12:6
- 7 Revelation 15:4; Psalm 22:28; Jeremiah 10:6; Psalm 89:6; Jeremiah 5:22
- 8 Jeremiah 10:14; Zechariah 10:2; Psalm 135:18; Psalm 115:8; Jeremiah 51:17–18
- 9 Psalm 115:4; Daniel 10:5; Isaiah 40:19; 1 Kings 10:22; Ezekiel 27:12
- 10 Deuteronomy 32:4; Isaiah 57:15; Nahum 1:6; Psalm 76:7; Psalm 104:32
- 11 Psalm 96:5; Isaiah 2:18; Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 10:15; Lamentations 3:66
- 12 Genesis 1:1; Job 9:8; Proverbs 3:19; Isaiah 40:22; John 1:3
- 13 Psalm 135:7; Job 38:22; Psalm 18:13; Job 38:34–35; Psalm 29:3–10
- 14 Psalm 135:16–18; Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 46:7–8; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Isaiah 44:18–20
- 15 Isaiah 41:24; Jeremiah 14:22; Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 8:12; Jonah 2:8
- 16 Deuteronomy 32:9; Jeremiah 32:18; Jeremiah 31:35; Psalm 119:57; Jeremiah 10:12
- 17 Ezekiel 12:3–12; Jeremiah 6:1; Micah 2:10; Matthew 24:15; Jeremiah 21:13
- 18 1 Samuel 25:29; Zechariah 1:6; Jeremiah 23:20; Deuteronomy 28:63–64; Jeremiah 15:1–2
- 19 Micah 7:9; Lamentations 3:18–21; Jeremiah 4:31; Lamentations 3:39–40; Jeremiah 14:17
- 20 Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 31:15; Isaiah 54:2; Isaiah 49:20–22; Job 7:8
- 21 Jeremiah 12:10; Ezekiel 34:2–10; Jeremiah 23:1–2; Isaiah 56:10–12; Ezekiel 22:25–30
- 22 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 1:15; Malachi 1:3; Jeremiah 5:15; Jeremiah 6:22
- 23 Proverbs 20:24; Psalm 37:23; Proverbs 16:1; Psalm 119:116–117; Psalm 17:5
- 24 Psalm 38:1; Psalm 6:1; Jeremiah 30:11; Isaiah 40:23; Job 6:18
- 25 Psalm 79:6–7; Jeremiah 8:16; Job 18:21; Psalm 14:4; Zechariah 1:15
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Jeremiah: a shorter book in a different order
The Greek Septuagint of Jeremiah is markedly shorter than the Hebrew text and arranges the book differently: the oracles against the nations come in the middle, after 25:13, not at the end. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that a shorter Hebrew form of Jeremiah really existed. Many scholars think Jeremiah circulated in two editions.
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).
How these were chosen
“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).
Jeremiah also says the same: "The gods that have not made the heavens and earth, let them perish from the earth which is under the heaven." For, from the fact of his having subjoined their destruction, he shows them to be no gods at all.
This shall ye say to them, "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from those that are under the heavens." He is not such a god: for our God is above all gods.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
He said, "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, let them perish from the earth, and from under the heaven." He said not, The gods that have not made the heavens and earth, let them perish from the heaven and from the earth; because they never were in heaven: but what did he say?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)