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1 Señor, tú siempre me haces justicia cuando te presento mis quejas. Deja que te presente ahora una más: ¿Por qué prosperan tanto los malvados? ¿Por qué son tan felices los traidores?
1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
2 Tú los plantas, ellos agarran suelo y sus iniciativas prosperan. Sus ganancias se multiplican y ellos se enriquecen. Dicen: «¡Gracias a Dios!», pero en su corazón no te lo atribuyen a ti.
2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
3 En cuanto a mí respecta, tú conoces mi corazón, bien sabes cuánto anhelo serte fiel. ¡Sin embargo, soy pobre, oh Señor! ¡Señor, llévalos arrastrados como ovejas silenciosas al matadero! ¡Júzgalos, oh Dios!
3 But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 ¿Hasta cuando tendrá esta tierra tuya que soportar la conducta de ellos? ¡Aun la hierba del campo tiene que pagar las consecuencias por las perversidades que ellos cometen! Las bestias y aves silvestres han huido, dejando desierta la tierra. Sin embargo, el pueblo dice: «Dios no nos llevará a juicio. Estamos completamente a salvo».
4 How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
5 El Señor me respondió: Si el competir en la carrera con simples hombres —los de Anatot— te ha cansado, ¿cómo vas a competir contra caballos, contra el rey, su corte y todos sus malvados sacerdotes? Si en tierra pareja tropiezas y caes, ¿qué harás en las selvas del río Jordán?
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
6 Y es que tu prueba será tan dura que hasta tus hermanos, tu propia familia, se pondrán en tu contra. ¡No confíes en ellos por más amables que sean las palabras que te dirijan!
6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
7 Luego el Señor dijo: He abandonado a mi pueblo, mi propiedad; en manos de sus enemigos he entregado lo que más amo.
7 “I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Es que mi pueblo ha rugido en mi contra como león del bosque, y entonces los he tratado como si no los amara.
8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
9 Mi pueblo se ha convertido en una presa deseada, de tal manera que sobre él se cierne una multitud de buitres y bestias salvajes que quieren devorarlo.
9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.
10 Muchos gobernantes extranjeros han asolado a mi pueblo como si fuera un viñedo maltratado, pisoteando las vides y transformando su belleza en estéril desierto.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 Lo han desolado; escucho sus amargos lamentos. Toda la tierra de Israel está desolada y nadie se duele por ello.
11 They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
12 Ejércitos destructores saquean la tierra. El Señor se vale de ellos como si fueran una espada y con ella causa gran destrozo. ¡No hay donde ocultarse de la destrucción; nadie escapará!
12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
13 Mi pueblo sembró trigo y cosechó espinos; trabajaron afanosamente, pero sin provecho. Tendrán cosecha tan raquítica que se avergonzarán de ella, y es que sobre ellos pesa la tremenda cólera del Señor.
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
14 Y ahora el Señor dice así a las naciones perversas, las que rodean la tierra que Dios dio a su pueblo Israel: ¡Miren, de su tierra los echaré así como Judá será echada de la suya!
14 Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 Pero después volveré y tendré compasión de todos ellos, y los traeré de regreso a su tierra, cada uno a su provincia de origen, la que le pertenece.
15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 Y si estas naciones paganas aprenden pronto las costumbres de mi pueblo y me tienen por Dios suyo en vez de Baal, cuyo culto enseñaron ellos a mi pueblo, entonces serán fuertes en medio de mi pueblo.
16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
17 Pero toda nación que se niegue a obedecerme será nuevamente expulsada y aniquilada, dice el Señor.
17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says Yahweh.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Malachi 3:15; Psalm 92:7; Psalm 37:1; Psalm 73:3–28; Psalm 37:35
- 2 Isaiah 29:13; Titus 1:16; Matthew 15:8; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 45:4
- 3 2 Kings 20:3; Jeremiah 17:18; Psalm 139:1–4; James 5:5; Psalm 17:3
- 4 Jeremiah 9:10; Psalm 107:34; Jeremiah 4:25; Hosea 4:3; Jeremiah 23:10
- 5 1 Peter 4:12; Proverbs 24:10; Hebrews 12:3–4; Psalm 69:1–2; Jeremiah 49:19
- 6 Proverbs 26:25; Psalm 12:2; Jeremiah 9:4; Micah 7:5–6; Genesis 37:4–11
- 7 Isaiah 2:6; Psalm 78:59–60; Jeremiah 11:15; Hosea 9:15; Lamentations 2:1–22
- 8 Amos 6:8; Hosea 9:15; Zechariah 11:8; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 51:38
- 9 Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 7:33; 2 Kings 24:2; Revelation 19:17–18; Ezekiel 23:22–25
- 10 Jeremiah 23:1; Isaiah 5:1–7; Isaiah 63:18; Psalm 80:8–16; Jeremiah 3:19
- 11 Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 23:10; Jeremiah 14:2; Jeremiah 12:4–8; Zechariah 7:5
- 12 Jeremiah 47:6; Amos 9:4; Ezekiel 14:17; Isaiah 34:6; Revelation 19:16–21
- 13 Haggai 1:6; Deuteronomy 28:38; Leviticus 26:16; Micah 6:15; Isaiah 55:2
- 14 Jeremiah 3:18; Zechariah 2:8; Zephaniah 2:8–10; Jeremiah 49:7; Zechariah 10:6–12
- 15 Jeremiah 49:6; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 49:39; Deuteronomy 30:3; Amos 9:14
- 16 Jeremiah 4:2; Joshua 23:7; Zephaniah 1:5; Jeremiah 3:17; Zechariah 2:11
- 17 Isaiah 60:12; Psalm 2:8–12; Daniel 7:4–8; Jeremiah 12:14–17; Zechariah 14:16–19
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What the Fathers said
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“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).
Respecting such it is said in another place by the prophet, "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns;" because they teach what is good, and do what is evil.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
and the Lord Himself says in the Prophets, Mine heritage became unto Me as a lion in the forest; it gave its voice against Me; therefore have I hated it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)