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

Jeremiah 5 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)

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1 Recorran las calles de Jerusalén. Miren e infórmense. Busquen en sus plazas para ver si hallan un solo hombre y si hallan alguno que practique justicia, que busque la verdad, y Yo la perdonaré.

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 Pues aunque dicen: Vive Yavé, ciertamente juran falsamente.

2 Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

3 Oh Yavé, ¿no buscan tus ojos la verdad? Los castigaste, pero no les dolió. Los consumiste, pero se negaron a recibir corrección. Endurecieron sus rostros más que la roca. Rehúsan regresar.

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 yo dije: Ciertamente éstos son pobres. Enloquecieron, porque no conocen el camino de Yavé, el juicio de su ʼElohim.

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 a los grandes y les hablaré, porque ellos conocen el camino de Yavé, el juicio de su ʼElohim. Pero todos ellos quebraron el yugo. Rompieron las correas.

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 Por tanto, el león de la selva los matará. El lobo del desierto los destruirá. El leopardo acecha sus ciudades. Cualquiera que salga de ellas será despedazado, porque sus transgresiones son muchas. Sus apostasías son numerosas.

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 ¿Por qué te debo perdonar esto? Tus hijos me abandonaron y juran por los que no son ʼelohim. Cuando Yo los alimento hasta la saciedad, ellos cometen adulterio. Corren en tropel a la casa de la prostituta.

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 Como caballos bien alimentados, cada cual relincha tras la esposa de su prójimo.

8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

9 ¿No debo castigar estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿No debo vengarme de una nación como ésta?

9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 Suban a las terrazas de su viña y destruyan, pero no la destruyan por completo. Quiten sus ramas, porque no son de Yavé.

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 Porque la Casa de Israel y la Casa de Judá me trataron de manera muy traidora, dice Yavé.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

12 Negaron a Yavé: ¡Él no existe! No vendrá sobre nosotros la calamidad, ni veremos espada ni hambre.

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 son como el viento, y la Palabra no está en ellos. ¡Que así se les haga a ellos!

13 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

14 Por tanto, Yavé ʼElohim de las huestes dice: Porque dijeron esta palabra, convierto mi Palabra en fuego en tu boca y a este pueblo en leña, y los consumirá.

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 En verdad Yo traigo contra ustedes, oh Casa de Israel, dice Yavé, una nación lejana, perenne, antigua, cuya lengua no conocen, ni pueden entender lo que dice.

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 Su caja portátil para flechas es un sepulcro abierto. Todos ellos son valientes.

16 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

17 Devorarán tu cosecha de granos y tu pan. Devorarán a tus hijos y a tus hijas. Comerán tus rebaños y manadas de ganado vacuno. Devorarán tus viñas y tus higueras. Destruirán a espada tus ciudades fortificadas en las cuales fijas tu confianza.

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 ni aun en aquellos días, dice Yavé, los destruiré por completo.

18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.

19 Sucederá que, cuando preguntes: ¿Por qué trae Yavé nuestro ʼElohim estas cosas sobre nosotros? les responderás: Como ustedes me abandonaron y sirvieron a ʼelohim extraños en su tierra, así servirán a los extraños en una tierra ajena.

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 Proclamen esto en la casa de Jacob y que se oiga en Judá:

20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

21 Oiga ahora esto, pueblo insensato e insensible, que tiene ojos, pero no mira, que tiene oídos, pero no escucha.

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 temerán a Mí? dice Yavé. ¿No temblarán ante mi Presencia, Yo, Quien puso la arena de límite al mar, como estatuto perpetuo que no puede traspasar? Aunque se agiten sus ondas, no pueden prevalecer. Aunque rujan sus olas, no lo traspasan.

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 este pueblo tiene un corazón obstinado y rebelde. Apostataron y se fueron.

23 “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

24 No dicen en su corazón: Temamos ahora a Yavé nuestro ʼElohim, Quien nos da la lluvia temprana y tardía en su tiempo, y nos cumple los tiempos establecidos para la cosecha.

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 Las iniquidades de ustedes alejaron estas cosas. Sus pecados apartaron de ustedes el bien.

25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

26 Porque en medio de mi pueblo se hallan hombres perversos. Acechan como acechan los que ponen trampas. Atrapan hombres.

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 una jaula llena de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de engaño. Así se engrandecieron y fueron ricos.

27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

28 Engordaron y están lustrosos. También se excedieron en obras de perversidad. No defienden la causa del huérfano para que prospere. No respetaron el derecho de 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 ¿Y no voy a castigar Yo estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿De una nación como ésta no se vengará mi alma?

29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 Cosa espantosa y horrible sucedió en la tierra:

30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

31 Los profetas profetizan mentira y los sacerdotes dirigen guiados por ellos, y así lo quiere mi pueblo. ¿Qué, pues, harán cuando llegue su fin?

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?

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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 5:8 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XL)
Wherefore the prophet David says, "Man, being placed in honour, is made like unto cattle." And again Jeremiah says, "They are become like horses, furious about females; each one neighed after his neighbour's wife." And Isaiah, when preaching in Judea, and reasoning with Israel, termed them "rulers of Sodom" and "people of Gomorrah;" intimating that they were like the Sodomites …
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 5:30 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book IV, Chapters 11–14)
… of the synagogue of the Jews: "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests applaud them with their hands; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" O eloquence, which is the more terrible from its purity, and the more crushing from …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 5:22 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily IV)
"Fear ye not me, saith the Lord....which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea." A grain of sand, the weakest thing possible, curbs the violence of the ocean.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

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