Jeremiah 7 Free Bible Version
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1 This is the Lord's message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
1 PALABRA que fué de Jehová á Jeremías, diciendo:
2 Go and stand in the entrance to the Lord's Temple, and deliver this message: Listen to what the Lord has to say, all of you from Judah who are coming in through these gates to worship the Lord.
2 Ponte á la puerta de la casa de Jehová, y predica allí esta palabra, y di: Oid palabra de Jehová, todo Judá, los que entráis por estas puertas para adorar á Jehová.
3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says: Change your ways and do what's right, and I'll let you go on living here.
3 Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Mejorad vuestros caminos y vuestras obras, y os haré morar en este lugar.
4 Don't believe in those who try and deceive you by repeating, “The Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here, the Temple of the Lord is here.”
4 No fiéis en palabras de mentira, diciendo: Templo de Jehová, templo de Jehová, templo de Jehová es éste.
5 If you sincerely change your ways and do what's right, if you treat each other fairly,
5 Mas si mejorareis cumplidamente vuestros caminos y vuestras obras; si con exactitud hiciereis derecho entre el hombre y su prójimo,
6 if you stop mistreating foreigners and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering innocent people and stop hurting yourselves by worshiping other gods,
6 Ni oprimiereis al peregrino, al huérfano, y á la viuda, ni en este lugar derramareis la sangre inocente, ni anduviereis en pos de dioses ajenos para mal vuestro;
7 then I'll let you go on living here in the country that I gave to your forefathers forever and ever.
7 Os haré morar en este lugar, en la tierra que dí á vuestros padres para siempre.
8 But look at you! You go on believing in these deceptions, these worthless words.
8 He aquí vosotros os confiáis en palabras de mentira, que no aprovechan.
9 Are you really going to continue stealing, murdering, committing adultery, and lying, burning incense to Baal, and worshiping other gods that you know nothing about,
9 ¿Hurtando, matando, y adulterando, y jurando falso, é incensando á Baal, y andando tras dioses extraños que no conocisteis,
10 and then come and stand before me in my own Temple and say, “We're safe, so we can continue doing all these offensive things”?
10 Vendréis y os pondréis delante de mí en esta casa sobre la cual es invocado mi nombre, y diréis: Librados somos: para hacer todas estas abominaciones?
11 Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.
11 ¿Es cueva de ladrones delante de vuestros ojos esta casa, sobre la cual es invocado mi nombre? He aquí que también yo veo, dice Jehová.
12 So why don't you go to Shiloh where I first made myself a place for me to live with you, and see what I did to it because of the evil my people Israel did?
12 Andad empero ahora á mi lugar que fué en Silo, donde hice que morase mi nombre al principio, y ved lo que le hice por la maldad de mi pueblo Israel.
13 I've warned you time and again about all these things you've done but you've refused to listen, declares the Lord. I've called out to you but you didn't want to answer me.
13 Ahora pues, por cuanto habéis vosotros hecho todas estas obras, dice Jehová, y bien que os hablé, madrugando para hablar, no oísteis, y os llamé, y no respondisteis;
14 So now I'm going to do to my Temple, what I did to Shiloh. This is the Temple you put your faith in, the place I gave to you and your forefathers.
14 Haré también á esta casa sobre la cual es invocado mi nombre, en la que vosotros confiáis, y á este lugar que dí á vosotros y á vuestros padres, como hice á Silo:
15 I will throw you out of my presence, just as I expelled all your Israelite relatives, all the descendants of Ephraim.
15 Que os echaré de mi presencia como eché á todos vuestros hermanos, á toda la generación de Ephraim.
16 You, Jeremiah, are not to pray for these people. Don't cry out to me in prayer for them, don't plead with me on their behalf, because I won't listen to you.
16 Tú pues, no ores por este pueblo, ni levantes por ellos clamor ni oración, ni me ruegues; porque no te oiré.
17 Can't you see how they're behaving in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
17 ¿No ves lo que estos hacen en las ciudades de Judá y en las calles de Jerusalem?
18 The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry and hurt.
18 Los hijos cogen la leña, y los padres encienden el fuego, y las mujeres amasan la masa, para hacer tortas á la reina del cielo y para hacer ofrendas á dioses ajenos, por provocarme á ira.
19 But is it really me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves?
19 ¿Provocaránme ellos á ira, dice Jehová, y no más bien [obran] ellos mismos para confusión de sus rostros?
20 So this is what the Lord God says: Watch! My furious anger will be poured out on this country, on people and animals, on the orchards and the crops in the field. It will burn and nobody will be able to put it out.
20 Por tanto, así ha dicho el Señor Jehová: He aquí que mi furor y mi ira se derrama sobre este lugar, sobre los hombres, sobre los animales, y sobre los árboles del campo, y sobre los frutos de la tierra; y encenderáse, y no se apagará.
21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You can add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat all the meat yourselves!
21 Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Añadid vuestros holocaustos sobre vuestros sacrificios, y comed carne.
22 When I led your forefathers out of Egypt I didn't just give them instructions about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
22 Porque no hablé yo con vuestros padres, ni les mandé el día que los saqué de la tierra de Egipto, acerca de holocaustos y de víctimas:
23 This is the commandment I gave them: Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow everything I have commanded you to do, so that all will go well for you.
23 Mas esto les mandé, diciendo: Escuchad mi voz, y seré á vosotros por Dios, y vosotros me seréis por pueblo; y andad en todo camino que os mandare, para que os vaya bien.
24 But they refused to listen or pay attention. Instead they followed the desires of their own stubborn and evil thinking, so they ended up going backward and not forward.
24 Y no oyeron ni inclinaron su oído; antes caminaron en [sus] consejos, en la dureza de su corazón malvado, y fueron hacia atrás y no hacia adelante,
25 From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, I have sent you time after time my servants the prophets.
25 Desde el día que vuestros padres salieron de la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy. Y os envié á todos los profetas mis siervos, cada día madrugando y enviándolos:
26 But you refused to listen or pay them attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your forefathers!
26 Mas no me oyeron ni inclinaron su oído; antes endurecieron su cerviz, é hicieron peor que sus padres.
27 When you tell them all this, they won't listen to you. When you call out to them, they won't answer.
27 Tú pues les dirás todas estas palabras, mas no te oirán; aun los llamarás, y no te responderán.
28 So you have to tell them, “This is the nation that refused to listen to what the Lord their God said, and would not accept the Lord's discipline. Truth has died out; people don't even talk about it.
28 Les dirás por tanto: Esta es la gente que no escuchó la voz de Jehová su Dios, ni tomó corrección; perdióse la fe, y de la boca de ellos fué cortada.
29 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation who made him angry.”
29 Trasquila tu cabello, y arrójalo, y levanta llanto sobre las alturas; porque Jehová ha aborrecido y dejado la nación de su ira.
30 For the people of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have placed their offensive idols in my own Temple, making it unclean.
30 Porque los hijos de Judá han hecho lo malo ante mis ojos, dice Jehová; pusieron sus abominaciones en la casa sobre la cual mi nombre fué invocado, amancillándola.
31 They have built pagan shrines at Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could sacrifice their sons and daughters by burning them in the fire. This is something I never commanded. I never even thought of such a thing!
31 Y han edificado los altos de Topheth, que es en el valle del hijo de Hinnom, para quemar al fuego sus hijos y sus hijas, cosa que yo no les mandé, ni subió en mi corazón.
32 So watch out! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when instead of Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom this place will be called the Valley of Killing. People will bury their dead in Topheth until it's full.
32 Por tanto, he aquí vendrán días, ha dicho Jehová, que no se diga más, Topheth, ni valle del hijo de Hinnom, sino Valle de la Matanza; y serán enterrados en Topheth, por no haber lugar.
33 The dead bodies of these people will be food for birds of prey and wild animals, and there won't be anyone to scare them away.
33 Y serán los cuerpos muertos de este pueblo para comida de las aves del cielo y de las bestias de la tierra; y no habrá quien las espante.
34 I will put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and bridegroom from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the country will be turned into a wasteland.
34 Y haré cesar de las ciudades de Judá, y de la calles de Jerusalem, voz de gozo y voz de alegría, voz de esposo y voz de esposa; porque la tierra será en desolación.
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Shiloh
Shiloh housed the tabernacle and ark through the era of the judges. Hannah prayed and Samuel ministered here; its later ruin became a prophetic warning.
Cited in the guide: Joshua 18:1; 1 Samuel 1:3; Jeremiah 7:12
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Jeremiah 26:2; Revelation 3:22; Jeremiah 22:1–2; Amos 7:16; Ezekiel 2:4–5
- 3 Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 26:13; Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 1:16–19
- 4 Micah 3:11; Matthew 3:9–10; Zephaniah 3:11; Jeremiah 29:31; Ezekiel 13:19
- 5 Jeremiah 7:3; Isaiah 1:19; 1 Kings 6:12–13; Jeremiah 4:1–2; Isaiah 16:3
- 6 Exodus 22:21–24; Zechariah 7:9–12; Jeremiah 13:10; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:28
- 7 Deuteronomy 4:40; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 18:7–8; Jeremiah 3:18; 2 Chronicles 33:8
- 8 Isaiah 28:15; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 23:26; Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 4:10
- 9 Exodus 20:3; Jeremiah 7:6; James 4:1–4; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 11:13
- 10 Jeremiah 32:34; Ezekiel 23:39; Ezekiel 23:37; Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 34:15
- 11 Isaiah 56:7; Luke 19:45–46; Matthew 21:13; Mark 11:17; John 2:16
- 12 Joshua 18:1; 1 Samuel 4:10–11; Jeremiah 26:6; Psalm 78:60–64; Judges 18:31
- 13 Isaiah 65:12; Proverbs 1:24; 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Jeremiah 7:25; Hosea 11:2
- 14 Psalm 78:60; 2 Kings 25:9; Jeremiah 7:4; Jeremiah 7:10; Deuteronomy 28:52
- 15 Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 52:3; Hosea 13:16; 2 Kings 17:23; Hosea 9:16–17
- 16 Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 14:11–12; Jeremiah 15:1; Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 14:14–20
- 17 Ezekiel 8:6–18; Ezekiel 14:23; Jeremiah 6:27
- 18 Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 44:17–19; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Deuteronomy 4:19
- 19 Jeremiah 9:19; Jeremiah 2:19; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Daniel 9:7–8; Jeremiah 20:11
- 20 Jeremiah 42:18; Lamentations 2:3–5; Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 17:27; Lamentations 4:11
- 21 Hosea 8:13; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 1:11–15; Amos 5:21–23
- 22 Hosea 6:6; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 51:16–17; Matthew 9:13; Psalm 40:6
- 23 Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 5:33; Exodus 19:5–6; Jeremiah 42:6; Hebrews 5:9
- 24 Psalm 81:11–12; Deuteronomy 29:19; Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 8:5; Jeremiah 32:33
- 25 2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 25:4; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 7:13; Matthew 21:34–36
- 26 Jeremiah 16:12; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 7:24
- 27 Isaiah 50:2; Jeremiah 26:2; Jeremiah 1:7; Isaiah 65:12; Zechariah 7:13
- 28 Isaiah 59:14–15; Jeremiah 32:33; Proverbs 1:7; Isaiah 1:4–5; Zephaniah 3:2
- 29 Job 1:20; Micah 1:16; Jeremiah 6:30; Jeremiah 16:6; Ezekiel 19:1
- 30 Ezekiel 7:20; Jeremiah 32:34; Daniel 9:27; 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Kings 21:4
- 31 2 Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 32:35; 2 Kings 17:17; Leviticus 18:21; Psalm 106:37–38
- 32 Jeremiah 19:11; Jeremiah 19:6; 2 Kings 23:10; Leviticus 26:30; Jeremiah 7:31
- 33 Jeremiah 12:9; Deuteronomy 28:26; Revelation 19:17–18; Jeremiah 8:1–2; Jeremiah 16:4
- 34 Revelation 18:23; Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Jeremiah 25:10; Leviticus 26:33
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This is in accordance with what Jeremiah says, "The Lord hath rejected and cast off the nation which does these things; for the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord." And again in like manner does Jeremiah speak: "I set watchmen over you; hearken to the sound of the trumpet; and they said, We will …