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1 ¡Son unos desgraciados los pastores que dejan que sus ovejas se pierdan o las dejan abandonadas ante el peligro!, dice el Señor
1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
2 En vez de llevar mi rebaño a lugar seguro, lo han abandonado y lo han arriado hacia la destrucción. Ahora sobre ustedes descargaré mi gran cólera por el mal que les han causado. Voy a pasar revista de nuevo a sus malas obras para darles el castigo que se merecen.
2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
3 Y recogeré el resto de mi rebaño de todas partes donde anden desperdigados y los traeré a su propio aprisco, y nuevamente tendrán pasto abundante y se multiplicarán.
3 “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.
4 Y los pondré al cuidado de pastores responsables, y nunca más tendrán por qué vivir atemorizadas. Ni una sola se perderá, dice el Señor.
4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.
5 Porque llegará un día, dice el Señor, en que pondré como rey en el trono del rey David una Rama justa. Será un Rey que gobierne con sabiduría y rectitud, que hará que la justicia sea la norma de todas las personas en la tierra.
5 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
6 Se le conocerá como Señor Justicia Nuestra. En aquel tiempo Judá e Israel habitarán en paz y con seguridad.
6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
7 En aquel tiempo, al prestar juramento ya no se dirá: «¡Por el Señor que rescató de Egipto al pueblo de Israel!»,
7 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that they will no more say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
8 sino que se dirá: «Por el Señor que desde los países del norte donde los había desterrado trajo a los israelitas de regreso a su patria Israel».
8 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.”
9 Tengo el corazón lleno de dolor, me siento debilitado y confundido como un borracho que es tardo en reaccionar por causa del espantoso destino que les espera a los falsos profetas, porque el Señor ha pronunciado contra ellos palabras terribles de castigo.
9 Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
10 El país está lleno de adulterio y la tierra hasta parece maldita, completamente reseca. Las personas sólo piensan en cometer maldades, siempre actuando tramposamente.
10 “For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
11 Tanto profetas como sacerdotes son hombres malvados y mentirosos, ¡y hasta cuando están en el templo!, dice el Señor.
11 for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
12 Por lo tanto, tendrán que pasar experiencias horribles; los perseguirán cuesta abajo por despeñaderos oscuros y traicioneros, y caerán. Cuando llegue el tiempo que he decidido recibirán el castigo que les corresponde por todos sus pecados.
12 Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
13 Yo sabía que los profetas de Samaria eran increíblemente perversos, porque profetizaban mediante Baal e inducían a mi pueblo a actuar perversamente.
13 “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 ¡Pero peores aún son los profetas de Jerusalén! Las cosas que hacen son horribles; cometen adulterio y se deleitan en sus malas acciones. Animan y aplauden a los malhechores en vez de advertirles de las consecuencias de sus malas acciones. Esos profetas son totalmente depravados, como lo eran los hombres de Sodoma y Gomorra.
14 In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
15 Por tanto, el Señor de los ejércitos dice respecto a estos falsos profetas: Les daré a comer amargura y veneno a beber, pues por causa de ellos la maldad se ha propagado por todas partes.
15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
16 Esta es mi advertencia a mi pueblo, dice el Señor de los ejércitos: No escuchen a esos falsos profetas cuando les profeticen, llenándolos de falsas esperanzas. Son unos embaucadores, inventan todo cuanto dicen, no son portavoces míos.
16 Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
17 Continuamente dicen a estos rebeldes que me desprecian: «No tengan ningún cuidado, todo va bien», y a quienes viven como ellos quieren les dicen: «El Señor ha dicho que tendrán paz».
17 They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’
18 Pero, ¿pueden nombrar siquiera a uno de estos profetas que tenga tanta intimidad con el Señor que oiga lo que dice? ¿Se ha preocupado siquiera uno de ellos en escuchar?
18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
19 Miren, el Señor envía un gran torbellino que arrastrará a esos locos.
19 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.
20 La terrible cólera del Señor no se aplacará hasta que haya ejecutado todo el castigo planeado. Más adelante comprenderán mejor lo que les estoy diciendo.
20 Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
21 Yo no he enviado a estos profetas, pero ellos se apresuraron a hablar en mi nombre; no les he dado mensaje alguno, pero ellos dicen que sus mensajes son de mi parte.
21 I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
22 Si fueran míos, tratarían de apartar a mi pueblo de sus malos caminos.
22 But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 ¿Soy yo acaso un Dios que esté solamente en un sitio y no pueda ver lo que están haciendo?
23 “Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?
24 ¿Podrá alguien ocultarse de mí? ¿No estoy yo acaso en todas partes, en el cielo y en la tierra?
24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
25 «Escuchen el sueño que anoche me envió Dios», dicen. Y se ponen a inventar mentiras en nombre mío.
25 “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
26 ¿Hasta cuándo durará esto? Si son «profetas», lo son de engaño, inventores de cuanto dicen.
26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
27 Al narrar estos falsos sueños pretenden que mi pueblo me olvide así como me olvidaron sus antepasados, quienes se volvieron a los ídolos de Baal.
27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
28 Cuenten estos falsos profetas sus sueños, y que mis genuinos mensajeros proclamen fielmente cada palabra mía. ¡Ustedes se darán cuenta entonces que hay mucha diferencia entre la paja y el trigo!
28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
29 ¿No quema mi palabra como si fuera fuego?, pregunta el Señor. ¿No es como un poderoso mazo que despedaza la roca?
29 “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 Por eso estoy contra estos «profetas» que reciben sus mensajes unos de otros,
30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
31 estos profetas que endulzan sus mensajes con mentiras y dicen: «Este mensaje procede de Dios».
31 Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
32 Sus sueños inventados son descaradas mentiras que inducen a mi pueblo a cometer maldades. Yo no los envié y no tienen mensaje alguno para mi pueblo, dice el Señor.
32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
33 Cuando alguien del pueblo o uno de sus «profetas» o sacerdotes te pregunten: «Anda Jeremías, ¿qué tristes noticias del Señor tienes hoy?», les responderás: «¿Qué tristes noticias? ¡Ustedes son las tristes noticias, porque el Señor los ha reprobado!».
33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
34 Y en lo tocante a los falsos profetas, sacerdotes y común del pueblo que hacen chistes respecto a «las tristes noticias del Señor», los castigaré a ellos y a sus familias por esas palabras.
34 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ I will even punish that man and his household.
35 Pueden preguntarse unos a otros: «¿Cuál es el mensaje de Dios? ¿Qué dice?».
35 You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh said?’
36 Pero no usen el mote de «tristes noticias de Dios», porque lo que hay de triste son ustedes y sus mentiras. Están tergiversando mis palabras, que soy un Dios que ama la vida, y andan inventando «mensajes de Dios» que yo no he dado, dice el Señor.
36 You will mention the message from Yahweh no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
37 Respetuosamente pueden preguntarle a Jeremías: «¿Cuál es el mensaje del Señor? ¿Qué te ha dicho?».
37 You will say to the prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ and, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
38 Pero si le preguntan por «las tristes noticias de Dios» habiendo advertido yo contra tales burlas, entonces yo, el Señor Dios, me libraré de la carga que me son ustedes. Los arrojaré de mi presencia, junto con esta ciudad que di a ustedes y a sus antepasados,
38 Although you say, ‘The message from Yahweh,’ therefore Yahweh says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from Yahweh,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from Yahweh,”
39 Not in this translation
39 therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
40 y sentirán mucha vergüenza por todo lo que les pasará y se ganarán una reputación de infames para siempre.
40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”
Cross references (38)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 10:21; Zechariah 11:15–17; Ezekiel 34:2–10; Ezekiel 13:3; Matthew 9:36
- 2 Jeremiah 21:12; Micah 7:4; Exodus 32:34; Jeremiah 23:34; Jeremiah 5:29
- 3 Amos 9:14–15; Jeremiah 32:37; Isaiah 43:5–6; Jeremiah 29:14; Jeremiah 30:3
- 4 Jeremiah 3:14–15; 1 Peter 1:5; Acts 20:28–29; John 10:27–30; Jeremiah 46:27–28
- 5 Luke 1:32–33; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 9:7; Zechariah 6:12–13
- 6 1 Corinthians 1:30; Philippians 3:9; Jeremiah 33:16; Matthew 1:21–23; Isaiah 7:14
- 7 Jeremiah 16:14–15; Jeremiah 23:3; Isaiah 43:18–19; Jeremiah 31:31–34
- 8 Amos 9:14–15; Isaiah 43:5–6; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 39:28; Zephaniah 3:20
- 9 Habakkuk 3:16; Lamentations 3:15; Isaiah 51:21; Daniel 8:27; Psalm 60:3
- 10 Psalm 107:34; Hosea 4:2–3; Jeremiah 5:7–8; Jeremiah 9:2; Jeremiah 9:10
- 11 Jeremiah 6:13; Zephaniah 3:4; Matthew 21:12–13; Jeremiah 32:34; Ezekiel 23:39
- 12 Jeremiah 13:16; Psalm 35:6; Jeremiah 11:23; Proverbs 4:19; John 12:35
- 13 Jeremiah 2:8; Isaiah 9:16; Hosea 9:7–8; 1 Kings 18:18–21; 2 Chronicles 33:9
- 14 Jeremiah 29:23; Isaiah 1:9–10; Ezekiel 22:25; Genesis 18:20; Jeremiah 14:14
- 15 Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:15; Psalm 69:21; Lamentations 3:5
- 16 Jeremiah 14:14; Ezekiel 13:6; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Galatians 1:8–9; Jeremiah 27:9–10
- 17 Micah 3:11; Jeremiah 13:10; Amos 9:10; Deuteronomy 29:19; Jeremiah 5:12
- 18 Jeremiah 23:22; Psalm 25:14; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Amos 3:7; John 15:15
- 19 Jeremiah 30:23; Jeremiah 25:32; Amos 1:14; Isaiah 21:1; Proverbs 10:25
- 20 Jeremiah 30:24; Isaiah 55:11; Genesis 49:1; Proverbs 21:30; Zechariah 1:6
- 21 Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 27:15; Jeremiah 23:32; Jeremiah 29:31; Jeremiah 28:15
- 22 Zechariah 1:4; Jeremiah 23:18; Jeremiah 25:5; Ezekiel 13:22; Jeremiah 35:15
- 23 Psalm 139:1–10; Jonah 1:3–4; Ezekiel 20:32–35; Psalm 113:5; 1 Kings 20:23
- 24 Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 139:7; Psalm 90:8; Isaiah 29:15; Amos 9:2–3
- 25 Jeremiah 23:32; Joel 2:28; Jeremiah 29:8; Jeremiah 23:28; Numbers 12:6
- 26 1 Timothy 4:1–2; Jeremiah 14:14; 2 Peter 2:13–16; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
- 27 Judges 8:33–34; Judges 3:7; Acts 13:8; Judges 10:6; 2 Kings 21:3
- 28 1 Timothy 1:12; 2 Corinthians 2:17; Luke 12:42; Proverbs 14:5; Matthew 24:45
- 29 Hebrews 4:12; Jeremiah 5:14; Luke 24:32; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
- 30 Deuteronomy 18:20; Ezekiel 13:8; Jeremiah 14:14–15; Psalm 34:16; Ezekiel 13:20
- 31 Jeremiah 23:17; 2 Chronicles 18:10–12; Isaiah 30:10; 2 Chronicles 18:5; 2 Chronicles 18:19–21
- 32 Zephaniah 3:4; Ezekiel 13:7–18; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 29:31; Jeremiah 7:8
- 33 Malachi 1:1; Jeremiah 12:7; Nahum 1:1; Hosea 9:12; Deuteronomy 32:19–20
- 34 Zechariah 13:3; Lamentations 2:14
- 35 Jeremiah 31:34; Jeremiah 33:3; Jeremiah 42:4; Hebrews 8:11
- 36 Isaiah 3:8; 2 Peter 3:16; Jeremiah 10:10; Psalm 64:8; Psalm 120:3
- 38 2 Chronicles 11:13–14
- 40 Jeremiah 20:11; Ezekiel 5:14–15; Jeremiah 42:18; Deuteronomy 28:37; Jeremiah 24:9
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