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1 En otra ocasión me habló nuevamente el Señor y me dijo:
1 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 No debes casarte ni tener hijos ni hijas en este lugar,
2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
3 porque de los niños y niñas que nazcan en esta ciudad, sus madres y padres
3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
4 morirán a causa de guerras y hambrunas. Nadie llevará luto por ellos ni los enterrarán, sino que sus cadáveres yacerán por tierra para pudrirse y abonar el campo. Sus pellejos serán destrozados por buitres y fieras.
4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
5 No te enlutes ni llores por ellos, pues yo les he retirado mi protección y mi paz; les he retirado mi benignidad y misericordia, dice el Señor.
5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
6 Tanto los grandes como los pequeños morirán en esta tierra, insepultos y sin haber quien los llore. Sus amigos no se harán heridas ni se raparán la cabeza en señal de dolor, como es la costumbre.
6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
7 Nadie confortará con alimento a los dolientes ni les enviarán una copa de vino como señal de dolor y solidaridad por la muerte de padres y madres.
7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 Como señal de los tristes días que están por venir, tampoco aceptes invitaciones a sus banquetes y fiestas.
8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
9 Porque el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: En tus días, ante tus propios ojos, haré que desaparezca la alegría de este pueblo, incluso los alegres cantos y las fiestas de boda.
9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 Y cuando digas estas cosas al pueblo y te pregunten: «¿Por qué ha decidido el Señor tan terribles males contra nosotros?, ¿qué hemos hecho para merecerlo?, ¿cuál es nuestra conducta errónea contra el Señor Dios nuestro?»,
10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
11 diles que la respuesta del Señor es esta: Porque sus antepasados me abandonaron. Adoraron a otros dioses y les fueron muy devotos y fieles, y desobedecieron todas mis instrucciones.
11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
12 ¡Pero ustedes han sido aun peores que sus antepasados! Se sienten muy satisfechos practicando maldades y no quieren seguir mis consejos.
12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
13 Por lo tanto yo los echaré de esta tierra y serán llevados a la fuerza a tierras extrañas en donde ni ustedes ni sus antepasados estuvieron antes, y allá rendirán homenaje a sus ídolos. ¡Y no esperen que los perdone!
13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
14 Pero vendrá un día maravilloso, dice el Señor, cuando el tema de toda conversación será que desde los países norteños a donde como castigo los había enviado como esclavos, los traeré de nuevo a su propio país. Ya no será su más importante recuerdo el de cuando liberé a sus antepasados de Egipto, sino que la liberación de su cautiverio del norte será el acontecimiento más celebrado. Aquel portentoso milagro casi no volverá a mencionarse. Sí, los traeré de regreso, dice el Señor, a esta misma tierra que di a sus antepasados.
14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
15 Not in this translation
15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Ahora envío a llamar a muchos pescadores para que los pesquen de lo profundo en donde se ocultan de mi gran cólera, dice el Señor. Envío a buscar cazadores para que los persigan como a venados en el bosque o cabras monteses en riscos inaccesibles. Adondequiera que corran huyendo de mi juicio, los hallaré y los castigaré.
16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17 Porque para nada los pierdo de vista y estoy atento a todas las maldades que cometen. Es inútil que intenten ocultarse de mí.
17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
18 Les daré doble castigo por sus actos malvados, porque han corrompido mi tierra con sus detestables ídolos y todas sus malas acciones.
18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
19 Oh Señor, tú que eres para mí como fortaleza y baluarte en mi debilidad, como mi refugio en los días que estoy angustiado, pueblos de muchas partes del mundo acudirán a ti diciendo: «Nuestros antepasados fueron insensatos, pues adoraban ídolos vanos que para nada les aprovecharon.
19 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
20 ¿Podrán los seres humanos hacer dioses? ¡Qué van a ser dioses los que ellos hicieron!».
20 Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”
21 Y cuando con esa actitud acudan a mí, entonces yo les mostraré mi poder y energía y haré que por fin comprendan que sólo yo soy Dios, y que mi nombre es el Señor.
21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 1:4; Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:1
- 2 1 Corinthians 7:26–27; Luke 23:29; Genesis 19:14; Luke 21:23; Matthew 24:19
- 3 Jeremiah 16:5; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 6:21
- 4 Jeremiah 25:33; Psalm 83:10; Jeremiah 9:22; Zephaniah 1:17; Jeremiah 34:20
- 5 Ezekiel 24:16–23; Isaiah 27:11; Jeremiah 15:1–4; Deuteronomy 31:17; Jeremiah 16:6–7
- 6 Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 41:5; Leviticus 19:28; Jeremiah 48:37
- 7 Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Deuteronomy 26:14; Job 42:11; Proverbs 31:6–7
- 8 Ecclesiastes 7:2–4; Jeremiah 15:17; Isaiah 22:12–14; Amos 6:4–6; Luke 17:27–29
- 9 Hosea 2:11; Ezekiel 26:13; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 25:10; Isaiah 24:7–12
- 10 Jeremiah 5:19; Deuteronomy 29:24–25; 1 Kings 9:8–9; Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 2:35
- 11 Psalm 106:35–41; Ezekiel 11:21; Nehemiah 9:26–29; Jeremiah 22:9; 1 Peter 4:3
- 12 Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 7:26; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 7:24
- 13 Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 4:26–28; Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 17:4; 2 Chronicles 7:20
- 14 Jeremiah 23:7–8; Deuteronomy 15:15; Exodus 20:2; Hosea 3:4–5; Micah 6:4
- 16 Habakkuk 1:14–15; Amos 4:2; Micah 7:2; Revelation 6:15–17; Amos 9:1–3
- 17 Proverbs 15:3; Proverbs 5:21; Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 90:8; Job 34:21–22
- 18 Isaiah 40:2; Numbers 35:33–34; Jeremiah 17:18; Jeremiah 2:7; Revelation 18:6
- 19 Isaiah 25:4; Nahum 1:7; Jeremiah 17:17; Isaiah 2:2–3; Isaiah 44:10
- 20 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 37:19; Galatians 4:8; Acts 19:26; Isaiah 36:19
- 21 Psalm 9:16; Jeremiah 33:2; Psalm 83:18; Amos 5:8; Exodus 15:3
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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).
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