Jeremiah · Geneva Bible (1599)
Jeremiah 4 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 O Israel, if thou returne, returne vnto me, saith the Lord: and if thou put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remoue.
1 SI te has de convertir, oh Israel, dice Jehová, conviértete á mí; y si quitares de delante de mí tus abominaciones, no andarás de acá para allá.
2 And thou shalt sweare, The Lord liueth in trueth, in iudgement, and in righteousnesse, and the nations shall be blessed in him, and shall glorie in him.
2 Y jurarás, [diciendo], Vive Jehová, con verdad, con juicio, y con justicia: y bendecirse han en él las gentes, y en él se gloriarán.
3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Iudah, and to Ierusalem,
3 Porque así dice Jehová á [todo] varón de Judá y de Jerusalem: Haced barbecho para vosotros, y no sembréis sobre espinas.
4 Breake vp your fallowe ground, and sowe not among the thornes: be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskinnes of your hearts, ye men of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem, lest my wrath come foorth like fire, and burne, that none can quenche it, because of the wickednesse of your inuentions.
4 Circuncidaos á Jehová, y quitad los prepucios de vuestro corazón, varones de Judá y moradores de Jerusalem; no sea que mi ira salga como fuego, y se encienda y no haya quien apague, por la malicia de vuestras obras.
5 Declare in Iudah, and shewe forth in Ierusalem, and say, Blowe the trumpet in the lande: cry, and gather together, and say, Assemble your selues, and let vs goe into strong cities.
5 Denunciad en Judá, y haced oir en Jerusalem, y decid: Sonad trompeta en la tierra. Pregonad, juntad, y decid: Reuníos, y entrémonos en las ciudades fuertes.
6 Set vp the standart in Zion: prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction.
6 Alzad bandera en Sión, juntaos, no os detengáis; porque yo hago venir mal del aquilón, y quebrantamiento grande.
7 The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.
7 El león sube de su guarida, y el destruidor de gentes ha partido; salido ha de su asiento para poner tu tierra en soledad; tus ciudades serán asoladas, y sin morador.
8 Wherefore girde you with sackecloth: lament, and howle, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is not turned backe from vs.
8 Por esto vestíos de saco, endechad y aullad; porque la ira de Jehová no se ha apartado de nosotros.
9 And in that day, saith the Lord, the heart of the King shall perish, and the heart of the princes and the Priestes shall be astonished, and the Prophets shall wonder.
9 Y será en aquel día, dice Jehová, que desfallecerá el corazón del rey, y el corazón de los príncipes, y los sacerdotes estarán atónitos, y se maravillarán los profetas.
10 Then saide I, Ah, Lord God, surely thou hast deceiued this people and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace, and the sworde perceth vnto the heart.
10 Y dije: ¡Ay, ay, Jehová Dios! verdaderamente en gran manera has engañado á este pueblo y á Jerusalem, diciendo, Paz tendréis; pues que el cuchillo ha venido hasta el alma.
11 At that time shall it bee saide to this people and to Ierusalem, A dry winde in the hie places of the wildernes commeth towarde ye daughter of my people, but neither to fanne nor to clense.
11 En aquel tiempo se dirá de este pueblo y de Jerusalem: Viento seco de las alturas del desierto vino á la hija de mi pueblo, no para aventar, ni para limpiar.
12 A mightie winde shall come vnto me from those places, and nowe will I also giue sentence vpon them.
12 Viento más vehemente que estos vendrá á mí: y ahora yo hablaré juicios con ellos.
13 Beholde, he shall come vp as the cloudes, and his charets shalbe as a tempest: his horses are lighter then eagles. Woe vnto vs, for wee are destroyed.
13 He aquí que subirá como nube, y su carro como torbellino: más ligeros con sus caballos que las águilas. ¡Ay de nosotros, porque dados somos á saco!
14 O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednes, that thou maiest be saued: how long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee?
14 Lava de la malicia tu corazón, oh Jerusalem, para que seas salva. ¿Hasta cuándo dejarás estar en medio de ti los pensamientos de iniquidad?
15 For a voyce declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
15 Porque la [voz se oye] del que trae las nuevas desde Dan, y del que hace oir la calamidad desde el monte de Ephraim.
16 Make ye mention of the heathen, and publish in Ierusalem, Beholde, the skoutes come from a farre countrey, and crie out against the cities of Iudah.
16 Decid á las gentes; he aquí, haced oir sobre Jerusalem: Guardas vienen de tierra lejana, y darán su voz sobre las ciudades de Judá.
17 They haue compassed her about as the watchmen of the fielde, because it hath prouoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.
17 Como las guardas de las heredades, estuvieron sobre ella en derredor, porque se rebeló contra mí, dice Jehová.
18 Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.
18 Tu camino y tus obras te hicieron esto, ésta tu maldad: por lo cual amargura penetrará hasta tu corazón.
19 My bely, my bely, I am pained, euen at the very heart: mine heart is troubled within me: I cannot be still: for my soule hath heard the sounde of the trumpet, and the alarme of the battell.
19 ¡Mis entrañas, mis entrañas! Me duelen las telas de mi corazón: mi corazón ruge dentro de mí; no callaré; porque voz de trompeta has oído, oh alma mía, pregón de guerra.
20 Destruction vpon destruction is cryed, for the whole lande is wasted: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtaines in a moment.
20 Quebrantamiento sobre quebrantamiento es llamado; porque toda la tierra es destruída: en un punto son destruídas mis tiendas, en un momento mis cortinas.
21 Howe long shall I see the standert, and heare the sounde of the trumpet?
21 ¿Hasta cuándo tengo de ver bandera, tengo de oir voz de trompeta?
22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
22 Porque mi pueblo es necio; no me conocieron los hijos ignorantes y los no entendidos; sabios para mal hacer, y para bien hacer no supieron.
23 I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.
23 Miré la tierra, y he aquí que estaba asolada y vacía; y los cielos, y no había en ellos luz.
24 I behelde the mountaines: and loe, they trembled and all the hilles shooke.
24 Miré los montes, y he aquí que temblaban, y todos los collados fueron destruídos.
25 I behelde, and loe, there was no man, and all the birdes of the heauen were departed.
25 Miré, y no parecía hombre, y todas las aves del cielo se habían ido.
26 I behelde, and loe, the fruitfull place was a wildernesse, and all the cities thereof were broken downe at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce wrath.
26 Miré, y he aquí el Carmelo desierto, y todas sus ciudades eran asoladas á la presencia de Jehová, á la presencia del furor de su ira.
27 For thus hath the Lord saide, The whole lande shall be desolate: yet will I not make a full ende.
27 Porque así dijo Jehová: Toda la tierra será asolada; mas no haré consumación.
28 Therefore shall the earth mourne, and the heauens aboue shall be darkened, because I haue pronounced it: I haue thought it, and will not repent, neither will I turne backe from it.
28 Por esto se enlutará la tierra, y los cielos arriba se oscurecerán, porque hablé, pensé, y no me arrepentí, ni me tornaré de ello.
29 The whole citie shall flee, for the noyse of the horsemen and bowemen: they shall goe into thickets, and clime vp vpon the rockes: euery citie shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
29 Del estruendo de la gente de á caballo y de los flecheros huyó toda la ciudad; entráronse en las espesuras de los bosques, y subiéronse en peñascos; todas las ciudades fueron desamparadas, y no quedó en ellas morador alguno.
30 And when thou shalt be destroyed, what wilt thou doe? Though thou clothest thy selfe with skarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of golde, though thou paintest thy face with colours, yet shalt thou trimme thy selfe in vaine: for thy louers will abhorre thee and seeke thy life.
30 Y tú, destruída, ¿qué harás? Bien que te vistas de grana, aunque te adornes con atavíos de oro, aunque pintes con antimonio tus ojos, en vano te engalanas; menospreciáronte los amadores, buscarán tu alma.
31 For I haue heard a noyse as of a woman trauailing, or as one labouring of her first child, euen the voyce of the daughter Zion that sigheth and stretcheth out her handes: woe is me nowe: for my soule fainteth because of the murtherers.
31 Porque voz oí como de mujer que está de parto, angustia como de primeriza; voz de la hija de Sión que lamenta y extiende sus manos, [diciendo]: ¡Ay ahora de mí! que mi alma desmaya á causa de los matadores.
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 2:12; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 43:9; Genesis 35:2; Jeremiah 3:1
- 2 Isaiah 65:16; Genesis 22:18; Jeremiah 9:24; 1 Corinthians 1:31; 2 Corinthians 10:17
- 3 Hosea 10:12; Luke 8:14; Luke 8:7; Galatians 6:7–8; Mark 4:18–19
- 4 Deuteronomy 10:16; Romans 2:28–29; Deuteronomy 30:6; Colossians 2:11; Jeremiah 9:26
- 5 Jeremiah 8:14; Joshua 10:20; Jeremiah 6:1; Hosea 8:1; Amos 3:6
- 6 Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 1:13–15; Jeremiah 51:27; Jeremiah 6:22; Jeremiah 4:21
- 7 Isaiah 6:11; Ezekiel 26:7–10; Isaiah 1:7; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 5:6
- 8 Jeremiah 6:26; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 32:11
- 9 Isaiah 22:3–5; Isaiah 29:9–10; Ezekiel 13:9–16; Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 37:19
- 10 Jeremiah 5:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; Isaiah 37:35; Jeremiah 14:13–14; Romans 1:28
- 11 Hosea 13:15; Ezekiel 17:10; Isaiah 41:16; Luke 3:17; Jeremiah 8:19
- 12 Jeremiah 1:16; Ezekiel 5:8; Ezekiel 6:11–13; Ezekiel 7:8–9
- 13 Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 66:15; Lamentations 4:19; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 5:28
- 14 James 4:8; Isaiah 55:7; Acts 8:22; Romans 1:21; Luke 11:39
- 15 Jeremiah 8:16; Judges 18:29; Joshua 17:15; Joshua 20:7; Jeremiah 6:1
- 16 Ezekiel 21:22; Jeremiah 5:15; Isaiah 39:3; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 31:10
- 17 Jeremiah 5:23; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Ezekiel 2:3–7; Luke 19:43–44; Isaiah 30:9
- 18 Psalm 107:17; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 2:17; Proverbs 1:31; Jeremiah 6:19
- 19 Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 22:4; Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 9:10
- 20 Psalm 42:7; Joel 1:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Ezekiel 7:25–26; Matthew 10:28
- 21 2 Chronicles 36:6–7; 2 Chronicles 35:25; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 4:5–6; 2 Chronicles 36:3
- 22 1 Corinthians 14:20; Romans 16:19; Jeremiah 5:21; Romans 3:11; Hosea 4:6
- 23 Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24–25; Joel 3:15–16; Isaiah 13:10; Genesis 1:2
- 24 Ezekiel 38:20; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 10:10; Nahum 1:5–6; Judges 5:4–5
- 25 Zephaniah 1:2–3; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 9:10; Hosea 4:3
- 26 Psalm 107:34; Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 14:2–6; Isaiah 7:20–25; Jeremiah 12:4
- 27 Jeremiah 46:28; Jeremiah 5:18; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 30:11; Romans 9:27–29
- 28 Numbers 23:19; Jeremiah 12:4; Isaiah 50:3; Hosea 4:3; Joel 2:30–31
- 29 Isaiah 2:19–21; Jeremiah 4:7; Revelation 6:15–17; Isaiah 30:17; Jeremiah 39:4–6
- 30 Lamentations 1:2; 2 Kings 9:30; Lamentations 1:19; Isaiah 10:3; Ezekiel 16:36–41
- 31 Isaiah 1:15; Lamentations 1:17; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 18:21; Lamentations 2:21
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… fatherless, and negligent of the cause of the widows." And Jeremiah, in like manner: "They," he says, "who rule my people did not know me; they are senseless and imprudent children; they are wise to do evil, but to do well they have no knowledge."