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1 Luego le dijo el Señor a Jeremías:
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 Ve a la entrada del templo del Señor y dale al pueblo este mensaje: ¡Oh Judá, escucha este mensaje del Señor! Escúchenlo ustedes, los que vienen aquí a rendir homenaje a Dios.
2 “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”
3 El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel dice: Aun ahora, si abandonan su mala conducta los dejaré permanecer en su tierra.
3 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Pero no se dejen engañar por quienes mienten diciendo que por estar aquí el templo del Señor, Dios jamás permitirá que Jerusalén sea destruida.
4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
5 Pueden quedarse sólo con estas condiciones: Si abandonan sus malvados pensamientos y actos, y se relacionan entre sí en toda justicia
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
6 y dejan de explotar a los huérfanos, las viudas y los extranjeros. Y déjense de homicidios, y de rendirles homenaje a los ídolos, como para su mal hacen ahora.
6 if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
7 Así, y sólo así, les dejaré permanecer en esta tierra que di a sus antepasados para siempre.
7 then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
8 ¡No se engañen! Dejen de confiar en mensajes engañosos y sin fundamento.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
9 ¿De veras piensan que pueden robar, matar, cometer adulterio, mentir y rendir homenaje a Baal y a todos esos nuevos dioses suyos,
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
10 y luego venir acá, ponerse ante mí en mi templo y canturrear «¡Salvos somos!», para volver inmediatamente a sus maldades?
10 then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
11 ¿Será mi templo ante sus ojos sólo cueva de ladrones? ¡Pues para mí no es otra cosa ahora que cueva de ladrones!
11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
12 Vayan a Siló, la ciudad que primero honré con mi nombre, y vean lo que le hice por culpa de la maldad de mi pueblo Israel.
12 “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 Y ahora, dice el Señor, lo mismo haré aquí por todo este mal que ustedes han hecho. Una y otra vez les hablé de ello; con mucha insistencia les llamaba, pero no quisieron oír ni responder a mis advertencias. Por ello destruiré este templo como hice con Siló; este templo que lleva mi nombre, del que creen recibir garantía de seguridad, y este sitio que di a ustedes y a sus antepasados.
13 Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;
14 Not in this translation
14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
15 ¡Y los echaré de mi presencia tal como lo hice con sus hermanos, los del pueblo de Efraín!
15 I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
16 No ores más por este pueblo, Jeremías. No llores por ellos ni ores ni supliques que yo les ayude, pues no te atenderé.
16 “Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
17 ¿Acaso no ves todos los delitos que están haciendo por todas las ciudades de Judá y en las calles de Jerusalén?
17 Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 Tengo mucho motivo para estar enojado. Observa a los niños recogiendo leña, a los padres haciendo fuego y a las mujeres amasando para hacer tortas como ofrenda para la Reina del Cielo y para los demás ídolos.
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19 ¿Es a mí a quien perjudican?, pregunta el Señor. ¡A sí mismos es a quien más dañan, para vergüenza suya!
19 Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
20 Así que el Señor Dios dice: ¡Mi ira, sí, mi cólera derramaré sobre este sitio: personas, animales, árboles y plantas serán consumidos por el fuego de mi ira, que nadie podrá apagar!
20 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”
21 El Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: ¡Alejen de mí sus ofrendas y sacrificios!
21 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
22 No eran ofrendas y sacrificios lo que de sus antepasados quería cuando los saqué de Egipto. No era esa la razón de mi mandamiento.
22 For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
23 Lo que les dije fue: ¡Sigan mis instrucciones y yo seré su Dios y ustedes serán mi pueblo; basta que hagan lo que les indico y todo les saldrá bien!
23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
24 Pero no quisieron escuchar; siguieron haciendo lo que les daba la gana, siguiendo sus pensamientos tercos y malvados. Retrocedieron en vez de avanzar.
24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Desde el día que sus antepasados salieron de Egipto hasta ahora, he continuado enviándoles mis profetas día tras día.
25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
26 Pero no quisieron escucharles, ni siquiera trataron de poner atención. ¡Son duros, empecinados y rebeldes, peor que sus antepasados!
26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
27 Diles cuánto yo les haré, pero no esperes que escuchen. Grita tus advertencias, pero no esperes que respondan.
27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
28 Diles: ¡Esta es la nación que se niega a obedecer al Señor Dios suyo y rehúsa recibir enseñanza; la que persevera practicando la maldad!
28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
29 ¡Oh Jerusalén, rápate la cabeza en señal de vergüenza y llora solitaria sobre los montes, porque el Señor ha rechazado y abandonado a este pueblo, quien ha provocado su enojo!
29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 Porque el pueblo de Judá ha actuado de muy mala manera, dice el Señor. Han colocado sus feos ídolos en mi propio templo, deshonrándolo.
30 “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
31 Y han edificado el altar llamado Tofet en el valle de Ben Hinón y allí han hecho morir quemados a sus hijitos e hijitas como sacrificio a sus dioses; ¡algo tan espantoso ni siquiera me hubiera pasado jamás por el pensamiento, y mucho menos lo habría yo ordenado!
31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
32 Pronto llegará el tiempo, dice el Señor, cuando el nombre del valle se cambiará de «Tofet» o «Valle de Ben Hinón» a «Valle de la Matanza», pues habrá tantos cadáveres sin sepultar que faltará espacio para todas las tumbas y tendrán que arrojar los cuerpos en fosas comunes.
32 Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it will no more be called ‘Topheth’ or ‘The valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’; for they will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.
33 Los cadáveres de mi pueblo serán carroña para las aves y las fieras, pues no quedará ni siquiera quien las espante.
33 The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.
34 Yo acabaré con la alegría y los cantos festivos en las calles de Jerusalén y en las ciudades de Judá, así como con la jubilosa voz de los recién casados, porque la desgracia llenará toda la ciudad y los hogares.
34 Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
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Shiloh
Shiloh housed the tabernacle and ark through the era of the judges. Hannah prayed and Samuel ministered here; its later ruin became a prophetic warning.
Cited in the guide: Joshua 18:1; 1 Samuel 1:3; Jeremiah 7:12
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Jeremiah 26:2; Revelation 3:22; Jeremiah 22:1–2; Amos 7:16; Ezekiel 2:4–5
- 3 Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 26:13; Proverbs 28:13; Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 1:16–19
- 4 Micah 3:11; Matthew 3:9–10; Zephaniah 3:11; Jeremiah 29:31; Ezekiel 13:19
- 5 Jeremiah 7:3; Isaiah 1:19; 1 Kings 6:12–13; Jeremiah 4:1–2; Isaiah 16:3
- 6 Exodus 22:21–24; Zechariah 7:9–12; Jeremiah 13:10; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:28
- 7 Deuteronomy 4:40; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 18:7–8; Jeremiah 3:18; 2 Chronicles 33:8
- 8 Isaiah 28:15; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 23:26; Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 4:10
- 9 Exodus 20:3; Jeremiah 7:6; James 4:1–4; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 11:13
- 10 Jeremiah 32:34; Ezekiel 23:39; Ezekiel 23:37; Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 34:15
- 11 Isaiah 56:7; Luke 19:45–46; Matthew 21:13; Mark 11:17; John 2:16
- 12 Joshua 18:1; 1 Samuel 4:10–11; Jeremiah 26:6; Psalm 78:60–64; Judges 18:31
- 13 Isaiah 65:12; Proverbs 1:24; 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Jeremiah 7:25; Hosea 11:2
- 15 Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 52:3; Hosea 13:16; 2 Kings 17:23; Hosea 9:16–17
- 16 Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 14:11–12; Jeremiah 15:1; Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 14:14–20
- 17 Ezekiel 8:6–18; Ezekiel 14:23; Jeremiah 6:27
- 18 Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 44:17–19; 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Deuteronomy 4:19
- 19 Jeremiah 9:19; Jeremiah 2:19; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Daniel 9:7–8; Jeremiah 20:11
- 20 Jeremiah 42:18; Lamentations 2:3–5; Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 17:27; Lamentations 4:11
- 21 Hosea 8:13; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 1:11–15; Amos 5:21–23
- 22 Hosea 6:6; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 51:16–17; Matthew 9:13; Psalm 40:6
- 23 Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 5:33; Exodus 19:5–6; Jeremiah 42:6; Hebrews 5:9
- 24 Psalm 81:11–12; Deuteronomy 29:19; Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 8:5; Jeremiah 32:33
- 25 2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 25:4; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 7:13; Matthew 21:34–36
- 26 Jeremiah 16:12; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 7:24
- 27 Isaiah 50:2; Jeremiah 26:2; Jeremiah 1:7; Isaiah 65:12; Zechariah 7:13
- 28 Isaiah 59:14–15; Jeremiah 32:33; Proverbs 1:7; Isaiah 1:4–5; Zephaniah 3:2
- 29 Job 1:20; Micah 1:16; Jeremiah 6:30; Jeremiah 16:6; Ezekiel 19:1
- 30 Ezekiel 7:20; Jeremiah 32:34; Daniel 9:27; 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Kings 21:4
- 31 2 Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 32:35; 2 Kings 17:17; Leviticus 18:21; Psalm 106:37–38
- 32 Jeremiah 19:11; Jeremiah 19:6; 2 Kings 23:10; Leviticus 26:30; Jeremiah 7:31
- 33 Jeremiah 12:9; Deuteronomy 28:26; Revelation 19:17–18; Jeremiah 8:1–2; Jeremiah 16:4
- 34 Revelation 18:23; Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Jeremiah 25:10; Leviticus 26:33
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