Jeremiah · Literal Standard Version
Jeremiah 6 Literal Standard Version
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1 “Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, || From the midst of Jerusalem, || And blow a horn in Tekoa, || And lift up a flame over Beth-Haccerem, || For evil has been seen from the north, || And great destruction.
1 HUID, hijos de Benjamín, de en medio de Jerusalem, y tocad bocina en Tecoa, y alzad por señal humo sobre Beth-hacchêrem: porque del aquilón se ha visto mal, y quebrantamiento grande.
2 I have cut off the lovely and delicate one, || The daughter of Zion.
2 A [mujer] hermosa y delicada comparé á la hija de Sión.
3 Shepherds and their droves come to her, || They have struck tents by her all around, || They have each fed [in] his own station.”
3 A ella vendrán pastores y sus rebaños; junto á ella en derredor pondrán sus tiendas; cada uno apacentará á su parte.
4 “Sanctify the battle against her, || Rise, and we go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day has turned, || For the shades of evening are stretched out,
4 Denunciad guerra contra ella: levantaos y subamos hacia el mediodía. ¡Ay de nosotros! que va cayendo ya el día, que las sombras de la tarde se han extendido.
5 Rise, and we go up by night, || And we destroy her palaces.”
5 Levantaos, y subamos de noche, y destruyamos sus palacios.
6 For thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Cut down her wood, || And pour out a mound against Jerusalem, || She [is] the city to be inspected, || She [is] full of oppression in her midst.
6 Porque así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: Cortad árboles, y extended baluarte junto á Jerusalem: esta es la ciudad que toda ella ha de ser visitada; violencia hay en medio de ella.
7 As the digging of a well, is [for] its waters, || So she has dug [for] her wickedness, || Violence and spoil is heard in her, || Sickness and striking [are] continually before My face.
7 Como la fuente nunca cesa de manar sus aguas, así nunca cesa de manar su malicia; injusticia y robo se oye en ella; continuamente en mi presencia, enfermedad y herida.
8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, || Lest My soul be alienated from you, || Lest I make you a desolation, || A land [that is] not inhabited.”
8 Corrígete, Jerusalem, porque no se aparte mi alma de ti, porque no te torne desierta, tierra no habitada.
9 Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “They surely glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel, || Put your hand back, as a gatherer to the baskets.”
9 Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: Del todo rebuscarán como á vid el resto de Israel: torna tu mano como vendimiador á los cestos.
10 To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, || And they are not able to attend. Behold, a word of YHWH has been to them for a reproach, || They do not delight in it.
10 ¿A quién tengo de hablar y amonestar, para que oigan? He aquí que sus orejas son incircuncisas, y no pueden escuchar; he aquí que la palabra de Jehová les es cosa vergonzosa, no la aman.
11 And I have been filled with the fury of YHWH || (I have been weary of containing), “To pour [it] on the suckling in the street, || And on the assembly of youths together, || For even husband with wife are captured, || [The] elderly with one full of days,
11 Por tanto estoy lleno de saña de Jehová, trabajado he por contenerme; derramaréla sobre los niños en la calle, y sobre la reunión de los jóvenes juntamente; porque el marido también será preso con la mujer, el viejo con el lleno de días.
12 And their houses have been turned to others, || Fields and wives together, || For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” || A declaration of YHWH.
12 Y sus casas serán traspasadas á otros, sus heredades y también sus mujeres; porque extenderé mi mano sobre los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová.
13 “For from their least to their greatest, || Everyone is gaining dishonest gain, || And from prophet even to priest, || Everyone is dealing falsely,
13 Porque desde el más chico de ellos hasta el más grande de ellos, cada uno sigue la avaricia; y desde el profeta hasta el sacerdote, todos son engañadores.
14 And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, || Saying, Peace, peace! And there is no peace.
14 Y curan el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo con liviandad, diciendo, Paz, paz; y no hay paz.
15 They were ashamed when they did abomination! Indeed, they are not at all ashamed, || Indeed, they have not known blushing, || Therefore they fall among those falling, || In the time I have inspected them, || They stumble,” said YHWH.
15 ¿Hanse avergonzado de haber hecho abominación? No por cierto, no se han avergonzado, ni aun saben tener vergüenza: por tanto caerán entre los que caerán; caerán cuando los visitaré, dice Jehová.
16 Thus said YHWH: “Stand by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, || Where [is] this—the good way? And go in it, || And find rest for yourselves. And they say, We do not go.
16 Así dijo Jehová: Paraos en los caminos, y mirad, y preguntad por las sendas antiguas, cuál sea el buen camino, y andad por él, y hallaréis descanso para vuestra alma. Mas dijeron: No andaremos.
17 And I have raised up watchmen for you, || Attend to the voice of the horn. And they say, We do not attend.
17 Desperté también sobre vosotros atalayas, [que dijesen]: Escuchad á la voz de la trompeta. Y dijeron ellos: No escucharemos.
18 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, || That which [is] on them.
18 Por tanto oid, gentes, y conoce, oh conjunto de ellas.
19 Hear, O earth, behold, I am bringing evil on this people, || The fruit of their plans, || For they gave no attention to My words, || And My law—they kick against it.
19 Oye, tierra. He aquí yo traigo mal sobre este pueblo, el fruto de sus pensamientos; porque no escucharon á mis palabras, y aborrecieron mi ley.
20 Why [is] this to Me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, || And the sweet cane from a far-off land, || Your burnt-offerings [are] not for acceptance, || And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.”
20 ¿A qué viene para mí este incienso de Seba, y la buena caña olorosa de tierra lejana? Vuestros holocaustos no son á mi voluntad, ni vuestros sacrificios me dan gusto.
21 Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I give stumbling blocks to this people, || And fathers and sons have stumbled against them together, || The neighbor and his friend perish.”
21 Por tanto Jehová dice esto: He aquí yo pongo á este pueblo tropiezos, y caerán en ellos los padres y los hijos juntamente, el vecino y su cercano perecerán.
22 Thus said YHWH: “Behold, a people has come from a north country, || And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.
22 Así ha dicho Jehová: He aquí que viene pueblo de tierra del aquilón, y gente grande se levantará de los cantones de la tierra.
23 They take hold of bow and javelin, || It [is] fierce, and they have no mercy, || Their voice sounds as a sea, || And they ride on horses, || Set in array as a man of war, || Against you, O daughter of Zion.”
23 Arco y escudo arrebatarán; crueles son, que no tendrán misericordia; sonará la voz de ellos como la mar, y montarán á caballo como hombres dispuestos para la guerra, contra ti, oh hija de Sión.
24 We have heard its sound, our hands have been feeble, || Distress has seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
24 Su fama oimos, y nuestras manos se descoyuntaron; apoderóse de nosotros angustia, dolor como de mujer que pare.
25 Do not go forth to the field, || And do not walk in the way, || For the enemy has a sword, || Fear [is] all around.
25 No salgas al campo, ni andes por camino; porque espada de enemigo [y] temor [hay] por todas partes.
26 O daughter of my people, || Gird on sackcloth, || And roll yourself in ashes, || Make mourning [as for] an only one, || A most bitter lamentation, || For the spoiler suddenly comes against us.
26 Hija de mi pueblo, cíñete de saco, y revuélcate en ceniza; hazte luto como por hijo único, llanto de amarguras: porque presto vendrá sobre nosotros el destruidor.
27 “I have given you a watchtower, || A fortress among My people, || And you know, and have tried their way.
27 Por fortaleza te he puesto en mi pueblo, por torre: conocerás pues, y examinarás el camino de ellos.
28 All of them are turned aside by apostates, || Walking slanderously—bronze and iron, || All of them are corrupters.
28 Todos ellos príncipes rebeldes, andan con engaño; son cobre y hierro: todos ellos son corruptores.
29 The bellows have been burned, || The lead has been consumed by fire, || A refiner has refined in vain, || And the wicked have not been drawn away.
29 Quemóse el fuelle, del fuego se ha consumido el plomo: por demás fundió el fundidor, pues los malos no son arrancados.
30 They have called them rejected silver, || For YHWH has kicked against them!”
30 Plata desechada los llamarán, porque Jehová los desechó.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nehemiah 3:14; Jeremiah 6:22; 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Chronicles 11:6; Judges 1:21
- 2 Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Isaiah 3:16–17; Lamentations 2:1
- 3 Luke 19:43; Jeremiah 39:1–3; 2 Kings 24:10–12; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Nahum 3:18
- 4 Jeremiah 15:8; Zephaniah 2:4; Joel 3:9; Jeremiah 8:20; Song of Songs 2:17
- 5 Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 52:13; Hosea 8:14; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 9:21
- 6 Jeremiah 32:24; Deuteronomy 20:19–20
- 7 Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 7:11; Jeremiah 20:8; Isaiah 57:20; James 3:10–12
- 8 Ezekiel 23:18; Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 35:13–15; Zephaniah 3:7
- 9 Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 16:16; Obadiah 5–6; Jeremiah 52:28–30; Revelation 14:18
- 10 Acts 7:51; Jeremiah 7:26; Hebrews 11:7; John 7:7; Exodus 6:12
- 11 Jeremiah 20:9; Jeremiah 9:21; Job 32:18–19; Micah 3:8; Acts 4:20
- 12 Jeremiah 8:10; Isaiah 5:25; Lamentations 3:3; Zephaniah 1:13; Lamentations 5:3
- 13 Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 8:10; Micah 3:11; Jeremiah 22:17; Micah 3:2–3
- 14 Ezekiel 13:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 4:10; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 14:13
- 15 Jeremiah 8:12; Matthew 15:14; Jeremiah 3:3; Philippians 3:19; Proverbs 29:1
- 16 Isaiah 30:21; Deuteronomy 32:7; Jeremiah 18:15; Matthew 11:28–29; Jeremiah 7:23
- 17 Jeremiah 25:4; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 21:11; Zechariah 7:11; Habakkuk 2:1
- 18 Psalm 50:4–6; Micah 6:5; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 4:10; Deuteronomy 29:24–28
- 19 Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 8:9; Acts 8:22; Micah 6:2
- 20 Isaiah 1:11; Amos 5:21–22; Micah 6:6–8; Psalm 40:6; Psalm 50:7–13
- 21 Isaiah 8:14; Ezekiel 3:20; Jeremiah 13:16; Isaiah 9:14–17; Ezekiel 9:5–7
- 22 Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 50:41–43; Jeremiah 1:14–15; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 5:15
- 23 Isaiah 13:18; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 30:14; Ezekiel 23:22–25
- 24 Jeremiah 50:43; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 21:3; Jeremiah 4:19–21
- 25 Jeremiah 49:29; Jeremiah 14:18; Psalm 31:13; Jeremiah 20:10; Job 18:11
- 26 Zechariah 12:10; Jeremiah 4:8; Lamentations 4:6; Isaiah 30:13; Jeremiah 9:17–22
- 27 Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 9:7; Ezekiel 3:8–10; Ezekiel 20:4
- 28 Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 18:18; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Revelation 19:2
- 29 Proverbs 17:3; Isaiah 49:4; 1 Peter 4:12; Zechariah 13:9; Ezekiel 24:13
- 30 Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Psalm 119:119; Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 14:19
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