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1 Después que fueron llevados cautivos por Nabucodonosor a Babilonia el rey Jeconías, la reina madre, los dignatarios de la corte, los jefes de las tribus y los obreros calificados,
1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2 Jeremías les escribió una carta desde Jerusalén, dirigida a los consejeros judíos, a los sacerdotes y profetas y a todo el pueblo.
2 (after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem),
3 Envió la carta con Elasá, hijo de Safán, y con Guemarías, hijo de Jilquías, cuando ellos fueron a Babilonia como embajadores del rey Sedequías ante Nabucodonosor. Y la carta decía así:
3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said:
4 «El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, envía este mensaje a todos los cautivos que ha desterrado de Jerusalén a Babilonia:
4 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 »Edifiquen casas y piensen en quedarse; planten viñas, porque se quedarán allí muchos años.
5 “Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Cásense y tengan hijos e hijas, y luego búsquenles consorte y tengan muchos nietos y nietas. ¡Multiplíquense! ¡No mermen!
6 Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
7 Y trabajen por la prosperidad y paz de Babilonia. Oren por ella, porque si Babilonia tiene paz, la tendrán ustedes.
7 Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
8 »El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice también: No permitan que los falsos profetas y agoreros que hay entre ustedes los engañen. No hagan caso de los sueños que inventan,
8 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
9 porque profetizan mentiras en mi nombre. Yo no los envié, dice el Señor.
9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.
10 La verdad es esta: Pasarán en Babilonia setenta años. Pero entonces vendré y haré por ustedes todas las cosas buenas que he prometido y los conduciré de regreso a su patria.
10 For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 Pues conozco los planes que para ustedes tengo, dice el Señor. Son planes de bien y no de mal, para darles un futuro y una esperanza.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
12 En aquellos días cuando oren, yo escucharé.
12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 Me hallarán cuando me busquen, si con toda sinceridad me buscan.
13 You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
14 »Sí, dice el Señor, me hallarán y yo pondré fin a su esclavitud y restauraré su fortuna y los reuniré de entre las naciones a donde los esparcí y los traeré de regreso a su casa y a su patria.
14 I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you,” says Yahweh. “I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
15 »Pero ahora, debido a que aceptan a los falsos profetas entre ustedes y aseguran que el Señor los envió,
15 Because you have said, “Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”
16 enviaré guerra, hambre y peste sobre el pueblo que ha quedado aquí en Jerusalén —sobre sus parientes que no fueron llevados prisioneros a Babilonia y sobre el rey que ahora ocupa el trono de David— y los haré como higos podridos, que no se pueden comer.
16 Yahweh says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity,
17 Not in this translation
17 Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.
18 Los esparciré por la superficie de la tierra y en toda nación en donde yo les ponga recibirán ofensas, silbidos y burlas,
18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
19 porque se negaron a escucharme aunque les hablé una y otra vez mediante mis profetas.
19 because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.
20 »Por lo tanto, escuchen la palabra del Señor todos los judíos cautivos allá en Babilonia.
20 Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
21 El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice esto acerca de sus falsos profetas Acab, hijo de Colaías, y Sedequías, hijo de Maseías, que usando mi nombre les dicen mentiras: ¡Miren, en manos de Nabucodonosor los entrego para que los ejecute en público!
21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.
22 Su destino se convertirá en símbolo de todo mal, de modo que cuando alguien quiera maldecir a otro le dirá: “¡El Señor permita te acontezca como a Sedequías y a Acab, a quienes el rey de Babilonia quemó vivos!”.
22 A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
23 Porque estos hombres han hecho algo terrible en mi pueblo. Han cometido adulterio con las esposas de sus vecinos y han mentido usando mi nombre. Lo sé bien, porque he visto todo cuanto hacen, dice el Señor».
23 because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
24 «Y díganle esto a Semaías, el nejelamita (que significa “soñador”):
24 Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
25 El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: Le has escrito una carta a Sofonías, hijo de Maseías, el sacerdote, y has enviado copias a todos los demás sacerdotes y a todos los habitantes de Jerusalén.
25 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
26 Y en esta carta le decías a Sofonías: “El Señor te ha nombrado para reemplazar a Joyadá como sacerdote en Jerusalén. Y en tu responsabilidad está arrestar a cualquier loco que diga ser profeta, y ponerlo en el cepo.
26 “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
27 ¿Por qué no has hecho algo respecto a Jeremías, ese falso profeta de Anatot?
27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
28 Porque él nos ha escrito a los que estamos en Babilonia diciendo que nuestro cautiverio será largo, y que deberíamos construir casa permanente y planear quedarnos muchos años y sembrar árboles frutales, pues estaremos aquí para comer su fruto por mucho tiempo”».
28 because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’”
29 Sofonías le llevó la carta a Jeremías y se la leyó.
29 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.
30 Entonces el Señor le dio este mensaje a Jeremías:
30 Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
31 Envía una carta abierta a todos los desterrados en Babilonia y diles esto: El Señor dice que por haberles «profetizado» Semaías de Nejelán sin que yo lo enviara, y por haberlos inducido a creer sus mentiras,
31 “Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,”
32 yo lo castigaré a él y a su familia. Ninguno de sus descendientes vivirá para poder ver el bien que tengo reservado para mi pueblo, porque él les ha inducido a ustedes a rebelarse contra el Señor.
32 therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.”’”
People & places in this chapter
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Ahab
Son of Kolaiah, a prophet in Babylon prophesying lies in the LORD's name, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:21; Jeremiah 29:22
Elasah
Son of Shaphan who, with Gemariah son of Hilkiah, carried Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:3
Gemariah
Son of Hilkiah whom Zedekiah sent to Nebuchadnezzar and who carried Jeremiah's letter to the exiles.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:3
Hilkiah
Named as the father of Gemariah, who carried Jeremiah's letter to Babylon.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:3
Kolaiah
Named as the father of Ahab, a false prophet among the exiles.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:21
Maaseiah
Named as the father of Zedekiah, a false prophet among the exiles.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:21
Maaseiah
Named as the father of Zephaniah the priest.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25; Jeremiah 37:3
Shemaiah
A Nehelamite among the exiles who sent letters to Jerusalem and was condemned by the LORD through Jeremiah.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:24; Jeremiah 29:31; Jeremiah 29:32
Zedekiah
Son of Maaseiah, a prophet in Babylon prophesying lies in the LORD's name, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire.
Cited in the guide: Jeremiah 29:21; Jeremiah 29:22
Zephaniah
The priest, son of Maaseiah, whom Zedekiah sent to ask Jeremiah to pray and to whom a letter from Shemaiah was addressed. When Jerusalem fell he was taken as 'the second priest'…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 25:18; Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 29:25
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 29:25–29; Esther 9:20; Acts 15:23; Hebrews 13:22; Revelation 2:1–3
- 2 Jeremiah 22:24–28; 2 Chronicles 36:9–10; Jeremiah 27:20; 2 Kings 24:12–16; 2 Kings 20:18
- 3 1 Chronicles 6:13; Jeremiah 36:25; 2 Chronicles 34:20; Ezekiel 8:11; 2 Kings 22:8
- 4 Jeremiah 24:5; Isaiah 59:1–2; Isaiah 45:7; Amos 3:6; Isaiah 10:5–6
- 5 Jeremiah 29:28; Jeremiah 29:10; Ezekiel 28:26
- 6 Judges 12:9; Genesis 24:51; Genesis 21:21; Genesis 24:3–4; Genesis 29:19
- 7 1 Timothy 2:1–2; Ezra 6:10; Ezra 7:23; 1 Peter 2:13–17; Daniel 4:27
- 8 Ephesians 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 27:9; Revelation 13:14
- 9 Jeremiah 27:15; Jeremiah 29:31; Jeremiah 29:23
- 10 Daniel 9:2; Jeremiah 24:6–7; Zechariah 7:5; Jeremiah 32:42–44; Jeremiah 25:12
- 11 Isaiah 55:8–12; Psalm 33:11; Micah 4:12; Psalm 40:5; Job 23:13
- 12 Matthew 7:7–8; Jeremiah 33:3; Psalm 50:15; Psalm 145:19; Psalm 10:17
- 13 Deuteronomy 4:29–31; Psalm 119:2; Matthew 7:7; Psalm 119:10; Jeremiah 24:7
- 14 Ezekiel 36:1–38; Jeremiah 30:3; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Romans 10:20; Micah 4:12
- 15 Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3; Jeremiah 28:1–17; Jeremiah 29:8–9
- 16 Jeremiah 38:2–3; Jeremiah 38:17–23; Ezekiel 6:1–9; Ezekiel 22:31; Jeremiah 24:2
- 18 Jeremiah 42:18; 2 Chronicles 29:8; Jeremiah 15:4; Jeremiah 34:17; Jeremiah 24:9
- 19 Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 35:14–16; Jeremiah 34:17; Jeremiah 25:3–7
- 20 Jeremiah 24:5; Micah 4:10; Ezekiel 3:11; Ezekiel 3:15
- 21 Jeremiah 14:14–15; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 29:8–9
- 22 Isaiah 65:15; Daniel 3:6; Daniel 3:21; Genesis 48:20; Ruth 4:11
- 23 Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 23:14; Hebrews 4:13; Jeremiah 29:21; Proverbs 5:21
- 24 Jeremiah 29:31–32
- 25 Jeremiah 37:3; Jeremiah 52:24; Jeremiah 29:29; Jeremiah 21:1–2; Nehemiah 6:17
- 26 Jeremiah 20:1–2; 2 Kings 9:11; John 10:20; Hosea 9:7; Acts 26:24
- 27 John 11:47–53; Jeremiah 29:26; Acts 4:17–21; Jeremiah 43:2–3; Matthew 27:63
- 28 Jeremiah 29:5; Jeremiah 29:10; Jeremiah 29:1
- 29 Jeremiah 29:25
- 31 Jeremiah 29:9; Jeremiah 14:14–15; Ezekiel 13:8–16; Ezekiel 13:22–23; Jeremiah 29:23–24
- 32 Jeremiah 28:16; 2 Kings 7:19–20; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 22:30; 2 Kings 7:2
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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… when predicting the captivity that was to befall the ancient people of God, and giving them the divine command to go obediently to Babylonia, and thus serve their God, counselled them also to pray for Babylonia, saying, "In the peace thereof shall ye have peace," --the temporal peace which the good and the wicked together enjoy.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)