Jeremiah · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)

Jeremiah 2 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)

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1 La Palabra de Yavé vino a mí:

1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2 Vé y proclama a oídos de Jerusalén: Yavé dice: Yo recuerdo con respecto a ti la devoción de tu juventud, el amor de tu desposorio, de tu andar detrás de Mí en el desierto, en tierra no sembrada.

2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

3 Israel era santo para Yavé, primicias de su cosecha. Todos los que comieron de ellas fueron culpables. La aflicción cayó sobre ellos, dice Yavé.

3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”

4 Oigan la Palabra de Yavé, oh casa de Jacob y todas las familias de la Casa de Israel.

4 Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

5 Yavé dice: ¿Qué injusticia hallaron en Mí sus antepasados por la cual se alejaron de Mí, siguieron tras la vanidad y se envanecieron?

5 Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

6 No preguntaron: ¿Dónde está Yavé, Quien nos sacó de la tierra de Egipto y nos condujo por el desierto, por tierra deshabitada y de sombra de muerte, tierra sedienta y sombría, tierra por la cual nadie cruza y en la cual nadie vive?

6 They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

7 Yo los introduje en una tierra fructífera para que comieran sus frutos y delicias. Pero cuando ustedes entraron, contaminaron mi tierra y convirtieron mi heredad en una repugnancia.

7 I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

8 Los sacerdotes no preguntaban: ¿Dónde está Yavé? Los que manejan la Ley no me conocieron. Los magistrados también cometieron transgresión contra Mí. Los profetas profetizaban por baal y seguían tras lo que no aprovecha.

8 The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

9 Por tanto, aún contenderé contra ustedes, y pelearé contra sus nietos, dice Yavé.

9 “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

10 Pasen a las costas de Quitim y miren. Envíen a Cedar y consideren atentamente, y vean si sucedió algo semejante a esto:

10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

11 ¿Alguna nación cambió sus ʼelohim? Aunque ellos no son ʼelohim, pues mi pueblo cambió su gloria por lo que no aprovecha.

11 Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

12 ¡Asómbrense, oh cielos y horrorícense por esto! Tiemblen muchísimo, dice Yavé.

12 “Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.

13 Porque mi pueblo hizo dos males: Me abandonaron a Mí, fuente de aguas vivas, y cavaron para ellos cisternas rotas que no retienen el agua.

13 “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

14 ¿Israel es esclavo? ¿Es un criado nacido en casa? ¿Por qué entonces fue una presa?

14 Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?

15 Los leoncillos rugieron contra él, levantaron su rugido y convirtieron su tierra en una desolación. Sus ciudades están quemadas y sin habitante.

15 The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

16 Aun los hijos de Menfis y de Tafnes te raparon la coronilla.

16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

17 ¿No te sucedió todo esto porque abandonaste a Yavé tu ʼElohim cuando Él te guiaba por el camino?

17 “Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

18 Ahora, ¿por qué tomas el camino a Egipto? ¿Para beber del Nilo? ¿Qué buscas en el camino a Asiria? ¿Beber las aguas del Éufrates?

18 Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

19 Tus propias perversidades te castigarán, y tus apostasías te reprenderán. Por tanto, reconoce cuán malo y amargo es que hayas abandonado a Yavé tu ʼElohim, y que el temor a Mí no está en ti, dice Yavé de las huestes.

19 “Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

20 Desde antaño quebraste el yugo, rompiste tus ataduras y dijiste: ¡No quiero servir! Y sobre toda colina alta, y debajo de todo árbol frondoso te echabas como prostituta.

20 “For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

21 Yo te planté como vid escogida con cepas genuinas. ¿Cómo, pues, te convertiste en una vid extraña?

21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

22 Aunque te laves con lejía y uses mucho jabón, la mancha de tu pecado permanece delante de Mí, dice Yavé.

22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

23 ¿Cómo puedes decir: No estoy contaminada ni fui tras los baales? Observa tu camino en el valle, y reconoce lo que hiciste. Tú eres una joven dromedaria desbocada que enreda sus caminos.

23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

24 Eres un asna montés acostumbrada al desierto que en el ardor de su deseo olfatea el viento. ¿Quién podrá reprimirla cuando está en celo? Los que la buscan no tienen que fatigarse, pues la hallarán en su ardor.

24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

25 Guarda tus pies de andar descalzos, y tu garganta de la sed. Pero dijiste: ¡No hay remedio de ninguna clase! A extraños amé, y tras ellos seguiré.

25 “Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

26 Como se avergüenza el ladrón cuando es sorprendido, así se avergonzará la Casa de Israel, sus reyes y sus magistrados, sus sacerdotes y sus profetas,

26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

27 los que dicen al leño: ¡Tú eres mi padre! Y a la piedra: ¡Tú me diste a luz! Ciertamente me dieron la espalda y no la cara, pero en el tiempo de su angustia me dicen: ¡Levántate y líbranos!

27 who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

28 Pero, ¿dónde están los ʼelohim que te hiciste? Que se levanten y te salven ellos en el tiempo de tu aflicción. Pues como el número de tus ciudades, oh Judá, así fue el número de tus ʼelohim.

28 “But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

29 ¿Por qué contienden conmigo, si todos se rebelaron contra Mí? dice Yavé.

29 “Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

30 En vano azoté a los hijos de ustedes. Ellos no recibieron corrección. La espada de ustedes devoró a sus profetas, como un león destructor.

30 “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

31 ¡Oh generación, atiende la Palabra de Yavé! ¿Yo fui para Israel como un desierto? ¿O una tierra de oscuridad? ¿Por qué dice mi pueblo: Somos libres, nunca más regresaremos a Ti?

31 Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?

32 ¿Olvida una doncella sus adornos o una novia su atavío? Pues mi pueblo me olvidó un sinnúmero de días.

32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

33 ¡Qué bien dispones tu camino para buscar amor! Por tanto, aun a las mujeres perversas enseñaste tus caminos.

33 How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

34 Aun en tus ropas se halló la sangre de los pobres, de los inocentes. No los sorprendiste en algún delito. Sin embargo, en todas estas cosas

34 Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

35 dices: Soy inocente. Ciertamente su ira se apartó de mí. Mira, Yo entro en juicio contra ti, porque dijiste: No pequé.

35 “Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

36 ¿Por qué hablas tanto al cambiar tu camino? También serás avergonzada por Egipto, como fuiste avergonzada por Asiria.

36 Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

37 También saldrás de allí con las manos sobre la cabeza. Porque Yavé rechazó a aquellos en quienes tú confías, y no prosperarás con ellos.

37 You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.

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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).

Quotes verse 2:13 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter XXII)
Those, therefore, who do not partake of Him, are neither nourished into life from the mother's breasts, nor do they enjoy that most limpid fountain which issues from the body of Christ; but they dig for themselves broken cisterns out of earthly trenches, and drink putrid water out of the mire, fleeing from the faith of the Church lest they …
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 2:27 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book II)
She then started up with a pious fear and trembling; and, although I had not yet been baptized, she feared those crooked ways in which they walk who turn their back to Thee, and not their face.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Quotes verse 2:10 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVII)
This God also did unto the Jews, when He said, "Go ye forth unto the Isles of Chittim, and send unto Kedar, and know if nations will change their gods; which yet are no gods." And to the brutes likewise He sends us oftentimes, saying on this wise, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and emulate her ways:" and "go …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 2:21 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture II)
For that we sin of our own free will the Prophet says plainly in a certain place: Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, wholly true: how art thou turned to bitterness, (and become) the strange vine?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Quotes verse 2:12 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XI–XIII)
… of my mouth;" and Isaiah, "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;" and Jeremiah describes astonishment in heaven at the tidings of the unholy deeds of the people: "The heaven was astonished at this, and was horribly afraid, because my people committed two evils." And so the apostle, knowing the angels to be set over men as tutors and …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

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