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1 ¡Corran arriba y abajo por todas las calles de Jerusalén; busquen con cuidado por todas partes para ver si pueden hallar siquiera una persona justa y honrada! Si encuentran aunque sea una, no destruiré la ciudad.
1 “Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
2 ¡Y es que ustedes mienten hasta cuando juran!
2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
3 Señor, tú no aceptas sino la verdad. Castigándolos has tratado de hacer que reflexionen y sean honrados, pero no quieren cambiar. Los has arruinado, pero no escarmientan y se niegan a dejar su conducta malvada. Con el rostro como dura piedra por su terquedad, están empecinados en no arrepentirse.
3 O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
4 Entonces dije yo: «Pero, ¿qué puede esperarse de los sencillos e ignorantes? No conocen las instrucciones de Dios. ¿Cómo podrán obedecerle?
4 Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.
5 Iré ahora a sus jefes, a los hombres prominentes y les hablaré, pues ellos conocen bien las instrucciones del Señor y las consecuencias que una conducta malvada acarrea». ¡Pero resulta que también ellos habían rechazado por completo a su Dios!
5 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
6 Entonces lanzaré sobre ellos la tremenda furia de sus enemigos quienes los atacarán como si fueran el león de la selva, los lobos del desierto y el leopardo que ronda en busca de presa, listo a dar el zarpazo a la primera presa que encuentre. Y todo esto como consecuencia de su desobediencia hacia mí y por haberse alejado de las instrucciones que le he dado.
6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
7 ¿Cómo perdonarlos? Porque hasta sus niños se han apartado, y adoran dioses que no lo son. Di de comer a mi pueblo hasta que estuvo satisfecho, y su agradecimiento fue entregarse al adulterio escandalosamente y armar francachelas en los burdeles de la ciudad.
7 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
8 Son como garañones bien nutridos y lascivos, cada cual relinchando en busca de yegua ajena.
8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 ¿No los habré de castigar por esto? ¿Tendré que fingir que no me doy cuenta de nada de lo que hacen?
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Ataquen la ciudad y causen mucho daño, pero no la destruyan del todo. Desciende a los viñedos y destrúyelos, pero deja con vida unos cuantos esparcidos. Arranca los sarmientos de cada vid, pues no son del Señor.
10 “Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.
11 ¡Vaya que se han dado sus mañas para intentar engañarme los pueblos de Israel y Judá!, dice el Señor.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
12 No me han tomado en cuenta para nada, y dicen: «¡Él no nos inquietará! ¡Ningún mal nos sobrevendrá! ¡No habrá hambre ni guerra!
12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.
13 Los profetas de Dios», dicen ellos, «son simples charlatanes: muchas palabras y nada de autoridad divina. La condena con que amenazan caerá sobre ellos, no sobre nosotros».
13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”
14 Por lo tanto, esto es lo que Dios, el Señor de los ejércitos, dice a sus profetas: Por murmuraciones así tomaré sus palabras y predicciones y haré que se cumplan en sus vidas con el efecto que causa un terrible incendio, el cual los consumirá como si fueran simples trozos de madera.
14 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
15 Miren, traeré contra ustedes una nación lejana, oh Israel, dice el Señor, nación poderosa, nación antigua cuya lengua no entiendes.
15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
16 Mortíferas son sus armas, todos sus hombres son grandes guerreros.
16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
17 Y ellos devorarán tus cosechas y el pan de tus hijos e hijas, se apropiarán de tus rebaños de ovejas y tu ganado; sí, y también se comerán tus uvas e higos; y saquearán tus ciudades, las que tú considerabas muy seguras por tener fuertes murallas y torreones defensivos.
17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
18 Pero no los destruiré a ustedes por completo, dice el Señor.
18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.
19 Y cuando su pueblo pregunte: «¿Por qué nos hace esto el Señor, nuestro Dios?» les responderán: «Ustedes lo rechazaron y se entregaron a otros dioses en su tierra, y ahora tendrán que ser esclavos de extranjeros en sus tierras».
19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
20 Anuncia esto a Judá y a Israel:
20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Escucha lo que digo, pueblo tonto e insensato, de ojos ciegos y oídos sordos.
21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
22 ¿No me tienen respeto alguno?, pregunta el Señor Dios. ¿Cómo es que ni siquiera tiemblan en mi presencia? Mi poder es tan grande que yo fui quien establecí sus límites a los mares del mundo y ellos por más que se embravezcan y rujan, no podrán traspasarlos. ¿No es de ser temido y respetado un Dios así de poderoso?
22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
23 Pero mi pueblo tiene una voluntad rebelde, se ha apartado de mí y se ha desviado a la idolatría. Aunque yo soy quien les da lluvia cada año en primavera y otoño y les envía el tiempo de las cosechas, no me tienen temor ni respeto.
23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
24 Not in this translation
24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
25 Y por eso les he retirado estas admirables bendiciones. Su conducta reprobable contra mí les ha privado de aquellos bienes.
25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
26 Hay entre mi pueblo hombres perversos que acechan víctimas como lo hace un cazador oculto. Arman trampas y redes con mucha habilidad. ¿Y qué es lo que atrapan? ¡Personas!
26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
27 Como gallinero lleno de pollos, sus hogares están llenos de perversas tramas. ¿Y el resultado?
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
28 Ahora son grandes y ricos, bien alimentados y relucientes, y no hay límite para sus maldades. ¡Pero niegan la justicia a los huérfanos y sus derechos a los pobres!
28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
29 ¿He de estarme con los brazos cruzados tolerando esta situación?, pregunta el Señor. ¿No he de castigar a un país que vive en esta situación?
29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 Algo espantoso ha ocurrido en este país:
30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
31 los profetas anunciando mentiras y los sacerdotes muy contentos apoyándolos. Y al pueblo parece que le gusta esta situación. ¡¿Dónde irá a parar toda esta locura?!
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Cross references (29)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Genesis 18:23–32; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Ezekiel 22:30; Psalm 14:3; Psalm 53:2–4
- 2 Titus 1:16; Jeremiah 4:2; Leviticus 19:12; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hosea 4:1–2
- 3 Jeremiah 7:28; Jeremiah 2:30; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Zephaniah 3:7; Isaiah 9:13
- 4 Hosea 4:6; Jeremiah 8:7; Isaiah 28:9–13; Matthew 11:5; Jeremiah 4:22
- 5 Jeremiah 2:20; James 2:5–7; Luke 18:24; Luke 19:14; Acts 4:26–27
- 6 Jeremiah 4:7; Habakkuk 1:8; Ezekiel 22:27; Zephaniah 3:3; Revelation 13:2
- 7 Galatians 4:8; Joshua 23:7; Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 2:11; Zephaniah 1:5
- 8 Jeremiah 13:27; 2 Samuel 11:2–4; Ezekiel 22:11; Deuteronomy 5:18; Exodus 20:14
- 9 Jeremiah 9:9; Jeremiah 5:29; Isaiah 1:24; Lamentations 4:22; Nahum 1:2
- 10 Jeremiah 4:27; Hosea 1:9; Amos 9:8; Matthew 22:7; Psalm 78:61–62
- 11 Jeremiah 3:20; Isaiah 48:8; Jeremiah 3:6–11; Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7
- 12 2 Chronicles 36:16; Isaiah 28:14–15; Jeremiah 43:2–3; Ezekiel 12:22–28; Jeremiah 23:14–17
- 13 Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 14:13; Job 8:2; Jeremiah 20:8–11; Jeremiah 18:18
- 14 Jeremiah 23:29; Jeremiah 1:9; Hosea 6:5; Revelation 11:5–6; Zechariah 1:6
- 15 Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 4:16; Isaiah 33:19; Isaiah 28:11; Isaiah 5:26
- 16 Isaiah 5:28; Psalm 5:9; Romans 3:13
- 17 Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:33; Hosea 8:14; Jeremiah 50:7; Jeremiah 4:26
- 18 Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 4:27; Romans 11:1–5; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13
- 19 1 Kings 9:8–9; Deuteronomy 28:47–48; Jeremiah 22:8–9; Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 16:13
- 21 Acts 28:26; Ezekiel 12:2; Isaiah 6:9–10; Romans 11:8; John 12:40
- 22 Job 38:10–11; Psalm 104:9; Job 26:10; Proverbs 8:29; Deuteronomy 28:58
- 23 Jeremiah 6:28; Deuteronomy 21:18; Hebrews 3:12; Psalm 95:10; Hosea 11:7
- 25 Isaiah 59:2; Psalm 107:34; Psalm 107:17; Deuteronomy 28:23–24; Jeremiah 2:17–19
- 26 Proverbs 1:11; Psalm 64:5; Jeremiah 18:22; Ezekiel 22:2–12; Psalm 10:9–10
- 27 Jeremiah 9:6; Amos 8:4–6; Proverbs 1:11–13; Micah 1:12; Revelation 18:2
- 28 Isaiah 1:23; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalm 73:12; Zechariah 7:10; Jeremiah 7:6
- 29 Jeremiah 5:9; Malachi 3:5; James 5:4; Jeremiah 9:9
- 30 Jeremiah 23:14; Hosea 6:10; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:12
- 31 Ezekiel 13:6; Jeremiah 14:14; Micah 2:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11; 2 Timothy 4:3–4
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