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1 ¡Hay tanto dolor que parece que no me alcanzarán todas las lágrimas para llorar por tanta desgracia! ¡Ay, ya las lágrimas no me alcanzan para llorar por tantos muertos de mi pueblo!
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 ¡Quisiera poder retirarme al desierto y no tener que estar viendo tantas infidelidades de parte de mi pueblo! ¡Todos se han vuelto adeptos de ídolos, me han traicionado!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 ¡Todos son grandes mentirosos, para nada se preocupan de hablar con la verdad! Nada les importa la justicia y van de mal en peor. Nada les importo yo, dice el Señor.
3 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
4 ¡Cuídate de tu vecino! ¡Cuídate de tu hermano! Cada cual se aprovecha del otro y siempre andan hablando mal de todo el mundo.
4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
5 Se han vuelto especialistas en la mentira y el chisme, ¡y no tienen otra cosa en la cabeza que hacer maldades!
5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 Están bien instalados en su mundo de mentiras, ahí se sienten como en su propia casa y de plano rehúsan acudir a mí, dice el Señor.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
7 Por lo tanto, esto dice el Señor de los ejércitos: Los haré pasar por grandes pruebas para comprobar su calidad, así como se hace con los metales para librarlos de las impurezas. ¿Qué otra cosa puedo hacer con ellos?
7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
8 Porque siempre andan dañando con sus palabras mentirosas, como cuando saludan a un vecino diciéndole «que tengas paz», pero en su interior están pensando cómo dañarlo.
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
9 ¿No habré de castigarlos por toda esta situación?, pregunta el Señor, ¿no habré de corregir con toda autoridad a este pueblo?
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10 Entonces se soltarán llorando por todos lados, hasta en los lugares desiertos, porque hay mucha desgracia, muerte de gente, de aves y ganados.
10 I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
11 Convertiré a Jerusalén en un montón de casas ruinosas, en guarida de chacales. Ciudades fantasmas serán las de Judá, sin nadie que habite en ellas.
11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
12 ¿Quién tiene suficiente inteligencia para entender todo esto? ¿Dónde está el mensajero del Señor que pueda explicar lo que pasó? ¿Por qué está tan desolado el país, al punto de que nadie se atreve a viajar por él?
12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13 La razón es que mi pueblo ha ignorado mis instrucciones y no ha obedecido lo que le mandé, responde el Señor.
13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
14 Lejos de eso, han hecho cuanto les ha dado la gana y han adorado ídolos como ese mentado Baal, como les enseñaron sus antepasados.
14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
15 Por tanto, esto es lo que dice el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: Miren, yo les daré a comer amargura y a beber veneno.
15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
16 Los esparciré por la superficie de la tierra para que sean extranjeros en tierras lejanas; y aun allá los perseguirán los enemigos con sus espadas desenvainadas hasta que hayan acabado con los israelitas por completo.
16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
17 El Señor de los ejércitos dice: ¡Envíen a llamar a las lloronas de oficio! ¡Pronto! ¡Comiencen a llorar! ¡Derramen lágrimas sin parar!
17 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
18 Not in this translation
18 Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 Escuchen a Jerusalén llorando desesperada: «¡Estamos arruinados! ¡Nos ha sobrevenido el desastre! ¡Tenemos que abandonar nuestra patria y nuestros hogares!».
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 ¡Escuchen, oh mujeres llorosas, las palabras del Señor! Enséñenles a gemir a sus hijas y vecinas, enséñenles los cantos funerarios porque los van a necesitar.
20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
21 Porque traicioneramente la muerte se ha metido por la ventana en sus hogares, ha quitado la vida a la flor de su juventud. Ya no hay niños y niñas jugando en las calles, ya no hay jóvenes que se reúnan en las plazas.
21 For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
22 Diles esto, dice el Señor: Los cadáveres serán esparcidos por los campos como si fueran estiércol, como se hace con las gavillas tras la siega, y nadie los sepultará.
22 Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
23 El Señor dice: No se enorgullezca el sabio en su sabiduría, ni el poderoso en su poder, ni el rico en su riqueza.
23 Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
24 Sientan orgullo sólo de esto: de conocerme bien y comprender que yo soy el Señor que exige vivir de manera justa y actuar siempre con rectitud, de saber que mi amor es firme, y que así me gusta ser.
24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
25 Dentro de algún tiempo, dice el Señor, castigaré a cuantos han realizado la circuncisión en su cuerpo pero no en su espíritu: egipcios, edomitas, amonitas, moabitas, árabes y también tú, pueblo de Judá. Porque todas esas naciones paganas también se circuncidan. Pero a menos que la circuncisión que realizan en su cuerpo se corresponda con su dedicación de toda su vida a mí, su circuncisión no pasa de ser un rito pagano como el de esas naciones.
25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
26 Not in this translation
26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 13:17; Isaiah 22:4; Lamentations 2:11; Jeremiah 8:21–22; Jeremiah 6:26
- 2 Jeremiah 5:7–8; Jeremiah 23:10; Hosea 4:2; Hosea 7:4; Jeremiah 12:1
- 3 Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 9:8; Judges 2:10; Isaiah 59:13–15; Romans 3:13
- 4 Micah 7:5–6; Proverbs 26:24–25; Psalm 12:2–3; Jeremiah 6:28; Proverbs 10:18
- 5 Habakkuk 2:13; Isaiah 57:10; Micah 6:12; Job 15:5; Isaiah 59:13–15
- 6 Jeremiah 13:10; Hosea 4:6; Romans 1:28; Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 1:24
- 7 Isaiah 1:25; Malachi 3:3; Jeremiah 6:27; Isaiah 48:10; Zechariah 13:9
- 8 Psalm 28:3; Proverbs 26:24–26; Psalm 64:3–4; Psalm 120:3; Jeremiah 9:3
- 9 Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah 5:9; Isaiah 1:24
- 10 Jeremiah 12:4; Hosea 4:3; Ezekiel 29:11; Ezekiel 33:28; Jeremiah 7:29
- 11 Isaiah 25:2; Jeremiah 10:22; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 13:22; Jeremiah 51:37
- 12 Hosea 14:9; Psalm 107:43; Deuteronomy 32:29; Psalm 107:34; Revelation 1:3
- 13 Jeremiah 22:9; 2 Chronicles 7:19; Ezra 9:10; Proverbs 28:4; Psalm 119:53
- 14 Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Peter 1:18; Romans 1:21–24
- 15 Jeremiah 8:14; Psalm 80:5; Lamentations 3:15; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15
- 16 Ezekiel 5:12; Deuteronomy 28:64; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2; Jeremiah 44:27
- 17 Amos 5:16–17; Ecclesiastes 12:5; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Mark 5:38; Matthew 9:23
- 19 Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 7:16–18; Deuteronomy 28:29; Micah 1:8–9; Lamentations 5:2
- 20 Luke 23:27–30; Isaiah 32:9–13; Job 22:22; Isaiah 3:16; Jeremiah 9:17–18
- 21 Jeremiah 6:11; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Jeremiah 15:7; Ezekiel 9:5–6; Ezekiel 21:14–15
- 22 Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 25:33; Zephaniah 1:17; Jeremiah 16:4; Psalm 83:10
- 23 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; Isaiah 5:21; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Romans 1:22; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20
- 24 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 1:31; Micah 6:8; Micah 7:18
- 25 Galatians 5:2–6; Romans 2:25–26; Romans 2:8–9; Ezekiel 32:19–32; Amos 3:2
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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).
… "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, neither let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in the Lord, in diligently seeking Him, and doing judgment and righteousness" ), being especially mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake, teaching …
And to show how those from among the Gentiles were foretold as more true and more believing, we will cite what was said by Isaiah the prophet; for he spoke as follows "Israel is uncircumcised in heart, but the Gentiles are uncircumcised in the flesh." So many things therefore, as these, when they are seen with the eye, are enough …
… evil heart, and went backwards, and not forwards." And again, when He declares by the same man, "But let him that glorieth, glory in this, to understand and know that I am the Lord, who doth exercise loving-kindness, and righteousness, and judgment in the earth;" He adds, "For in these things I delight, says the Lord," but not in sacrifices, …