Jeremiah · Catholic Public Domain Version
Jeremiah 5 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 “Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.
1 DISCURRID por las plazas de Jerusalem, y mirad ahora, y sabed, y buscad en sus plazas si halláis hombre, si hay alguno que haga juicio, que busque verdad; y yo la perdonaré.
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 For even though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in this, too, they swear falsely.”
2 Y si dijeren: Vive Jehová; por tanto jurarán mentira.
2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
3 O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.
3 Oh Jehová, ¿no miran tus ojos á la verdad? Azotástelos, y no les dolió; consumístelos, y no quisieron recibir corrección; endurecieron sus rostros más que la piedra, no quisieron tornarse.
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 But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.
4 Yo empero dije: Por cierto ellos son pobres, enloquecido han, pues no conocen el camino de Jehová, el juicio de su Dios.
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 Therefore, I will go to great men, and I will speak with them. For they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. And behold, these ones have broken the yoke all the more; they have torn apart the bonds.
5 Irme he á los grandes, y hablaréles; porque ellos conocen el camino de Jehová, el juicio de su Dios. Ciertamente ellos también quebraron el yugo, rompieron las coyundas.
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 For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.
6 Por tanto, león del monte los herirá, destruirálos lobo del desierto, tigre acechará sobre sus ciudades; cualquiera que de ellas saliere, será arrebatado: porque sus rebeliones se han multiplicado, hanse aumentado sus deslealtades.
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 “Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.
7 ¿Cómo te he de perdonar por esto? Sus hijos me dejaron, y juraron por lo que no es Dios. Saciélos, y adulteraron, y en casa de ramera se juntaron en compañías.
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 They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
8 Como caballos bien hartos fueron á la mañana, cada cual relinchaba á la mujer de su prójimo.
8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?
9 ¿No había de hacer visitación sobre esto? dijo Jehová. De una gente como ésta ¿no se había de vengar mi alma?
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord’s.
10 Escalad sus muros, y destruid; mas no hagáis consumación: quitad las almenas de sus muros, porque no son de Jehová.
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 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.
11 Porque resueltamente se rebelaron contra mí la casa de Israel y la casa de Judá, dice Jehová.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
12 They have denied the Lord, and they have said, ‘It is not him,’ and, ‘Evil will not overwhelm us. We will not see famine and the sword.’
12 Negaron á Jehová, y dijeron: El no es, y no vendrá mal sobre nosotros, ni veremos cuchillo 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 The prophets have spoken into the wind, and there was no answer with them. Therefore, these things will happen to them.”
13 Antes los profetas serán como viento, y no hay en ellos palabra; así se hará á ellos.
13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
14 Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.
14 Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová Dios de los ejércitos: Porque hablasteis esta palabra, he aquí yo pongo en tu boca mis palabras por fuego, y á este pueblo por leños, y los 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 Behold, O house of Israel, I will lead over you a far away nation, says the Lord, a robust nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you will not know, nor will you understand what they are saying.
15 He aquí yo traigo sobre vosotros gente de lejos, oh casa de Israel, dice Jehová; gente robusta, gente antigua, gente cuya lengua ignorarás, y no entenderás lo que hablare.
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 Their quiver is like an open sepulcher. They are all strong.
16 Su aljaba como sepulcro abierto, todos valientes.
16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
17 And they will consume your grain fields and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vineyards and your figs. And with the sword, they will crush your fortified cities, in which you have placed your trust.
17 Y comerá tu mies y tu pan, [que] habían de comer tus hijos y tus hijas; comerá tus ovejas y tus vacas, comerá tus viñas y tus higueras; y tus ciudades fuertes en que tú confías, tornará en nada á cuchillo.
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 Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you.
18 Empero en aquellos días, dice Jehová, no os acabaré del todo.
18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.
19 And if they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You shall say to them: ‘Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.’
19 Y será que cuando dijereis: ¿Por qué hizo Jehová el Dios nuestro con nosotros todas estas cosas? entonces les dirás: De la manera que me dejasteis á mí, y servisteis á dioses ajenos en vuestra tierra, así serviréis á extraños en tierra ajena.
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 Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:
20 Denunciad esto en la casa de Jacob, y haced que esto se oiga en Judá, diciendo:
20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.
21 Oid ahora esto, pueblo necio y sin corazón, que tienen ojos y no ven, que tienen oídos y no oyen:
21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
22 So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.
22 ¿A mí no temeréis? dice Jehová; ¿no os amedrentaréis á mi presencia, que al mar por ordenación eterna, la cual no quebrantará, puse arena por término? Se levantarán tempestades, mas no prevalecerán; bramarán sus ondas, mas no lo pasarán.
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 But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.
23 Empero este pueblo tiene corazón falso y rebelde; tornáronse y fuéronse.
23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
24 And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’
24 Y no dijeron en su corazón: Temamos ahora á Jehová Dios nuestro, que da lluvia temprana y tardía en su tiempo; los tiempos establecidos de la siega nos guarda.
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 Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.
25 Vuestras iniquidades han estorbado estas cosas; y vuestros pecados apartaron de vosotros el bien.
25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
26 For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
26 Porque fueron hallados en mi pueblo impíos; acechaban como quien pone lazos; pusieron trampa para tomar hombres.
26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
27 Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.
27 Como jaula llena de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de engaño: así se hicieron grandes 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 They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.
28 Engordaron y pusiéronse lustrosos, y sobrepujaron los hechos del malo: no juzgaron la causa, la causa del huérfano; con todo hiciéronse prósperos, y la causa de los pobres no juzgaron.
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 Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?
29 ¿No tengo de visitar sobre esto? dice Jehová; ¿y de tal gente no se vengará mi alma?
29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.
30 Cosa espantosa y fea es hecha en la tierra:
30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
31 The prophets have prophesied lies, and the priests have applauded with their hands, and my people have loved these things. So then, what shall be done at the very end?”
31 Los profetas profetizaron mentira, y los sacerdotes dirigían por manos de ellos; y mi pueblo así lo quiso. ¿Qué pues haréis á su fin?
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?
Cross references (30)
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- 1 Genesis 18:23–32; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Ezekiel 22:30; Psalm 14:3; Psalm 53:2–4
- 2 Titus 1:16; Jeremiah 4:2; Leviticus 19:12; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hosea 4:1–2
- 3 Jeremiah 7:28; Jeremiah 2:30; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Zephaniah 3:7; Isaiah 9:13
- 4 Hosea 4:6; Jeremiah 8:7; Isaiah 28:9–13; Matthew 11:5; Jeremiah 4:22
- 5 Jeremiah 2:20; James 2:5–7; Luke 18:24; Luke 19:14; Acts 4:26–27
- 6 Jeremiah 4:7; Habakkuk 1:8; Ezekiel 22:27; Zephaniah 3:3; Revelation 13:2
- 7 Galatians 4:8; Joshua 23:7; Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 2:11; Zephaniah 1:5
- 8 Jeremiah 13:27; 2 Samuel 11:2–4; Ezekiel 22:11; Deuteronomy 5:18; Exodus 20:14
- 9 Jeremiah 9:9; Jeremiah 5:29; Isaiah 1:24; Lamentations 4:22; Nahum 1:2
- 10 Jeremiah 4:27; Hosea 1:9; Amos 9:8; Matthew 22:7; Psalm 78:61–62
- 11 Jeremiah 3:20; Isaiah 48:8; Jeremiah 3:6–11; Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7
- 12 2 Chronicles 36:16; Isaiah 28:14–15; Jeremiah 43:2–3; Ezekiel 12:22–28; Jeremiah 23:14–17
- 13 Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 14:13; Job 8:2; Jeremiah 20:8–11; Jeremiah 18:18
- 14 Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 1:9; Hosea 6:5; Revelation 11:5–6; Zechariah 1:6
- 15 Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 4:16; Isaiah 33:19; Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 5:26
- 16 Isaiah 5:28; Psalm 5:9; Romans 3:13
- 17 Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:33; Hosea 8:14; Jeremiah 50:7; Jeremiah 4:26
- 18 Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 4:27; Romans 11:1–5; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13
- 19 1 Kings 9:8–9; Deuteronomy 28:47–48; Jeremiah 22:8–9; Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 16:13
- 21 Acts 28:26; Ezekiel 12:2; Isaiah 6:9–10; Romans 11:8; John 12:40
- 22 Job 38:10–11; Psalm 104:9; Job 26:10; Proverbs 8:29; Deuteronomy 28:58
- 23 Jeremiah 6:28; Deuteronomy 21:18; Hebrews 3:12; Psalm 95:10; Hosea 11:7
- 24 Psalm 147:8; Genesis 8:22; Joel 2:23; Jeremiah 14:22; Acts 14:17
- 25 Isaiah 59:2; Psalm 107:34; Psalm 107:17; Deuteronomy 28:23–24; Jeremiah 2:17–19
- 26 Proverbs 1:11; Psalm 64:5; Jeremiah 18:22; Ezekiel 22:2–12; Psalm 10:9–10
- 27 Jeremiah 9:6; Amos 8:4–6; Proverbs 1:11–13; Micah 1:12; Revelation 18:2
- 28 Isaiah 1:23; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalm 73:12; Zechariah 7:10; Jeremiah 7:6
- 29 Jeremiah 5:9; Malachi 3:5; James 5:4; Jeremiah 9:9
- 30 Jeremiah 23:14; Hosea 6:10; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:12
- 31 Ezekiel 13:6; Jeremiah 14:14; Micah 2:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; 2 Timothy 4:3–4
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