Jeremiah · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Jeremiah 9 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 ¡Oh, que mi cabeza fuera agua y mis ojos fuentes de lágrimas para llorar de día y de noche por los asesinados de la hija 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 ¡Quién me diera una posada de caminantes en el desierto para abandonar a mi pueblo y apartarme de ellos! Porque todos ellos son adúlteros, congregación de traidores.
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 Disponen su lengua como arco. Lanzan mentiras y no se fortalecieron para la verdad en la tierra. Porque proceden de mal en mal y no me conocen, dice Yavé.
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 ¡Cuídese cada uno de su prójimo! No tenga confianza en algún hermano, porque todo hermano suplanta, y todo prójimo anda con calumnias.
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 Cada uno engaña a su prójimo y no habla verdad. Adiestraron su lengua para la mentira, y se pervierten hasta el cansancio.
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 Su morada está en medio del engaño, y rehúsan conocerme a causa del engaño, dice Yavé.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
7 Por tanto, Jerusalén es una pila de escombros y una guarida de chacales, y las ciudades de Judá, una desolación sin habitante. Yavé de las huestes dice: Ciertamente Yo los fundiré y los probaré. ¿De cuál otra manera procedo con la hija de mi pueblo?
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 Su lengua es flecha mortal que habla engaño. Con su boca hablan de paz con su prójimo, pero dentro de él ponen emboscada.
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 debo castigar estas cosas? dice Yavé. De una nación como ésta, ¿no se vengará mi alma?
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10 Por las montañas levantaré mi lamento y mi llanto por los pastizales del desierto porque están desolados. No hay quien pase, ni se oye el bramido del ganado. Desde las aves del cielo hasta las bestias huyeron. Todos se fueron.
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 una pila de escombros y una guarida de chacales, y a las ciudades de Judá en una desolación sin habitante.
11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
12 ¿Quién es un hombre sabio que entienda esto? ¿Y a quién habló la boca de Yavé para que lo declare? ¿Por qué pereció la tierra? Fue asolada como un desierto, y no hay quien pase por ella.
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 Yavé dijo: Porque abandonaron la Ley que puse delante de ellos. No escucharon mi voz, ni andan según ella,
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 sino andan tras la dureza de su corazón y tras los baales, lo cual 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, Yavé de las huestes, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: Ciertamente Yo daré a comer ajenjo a este pueblo y les daré a beber agua con hiel.
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 dispersaré entre naciones que ellos no conocieron ni sus antepasados. Enviaré la espada tras ellos hasta exterminarlos.
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 Yavé de las huestes dice: Atiendan y llamen a las plañideras para que vengan. Envíen a llamar a las que son expertas para que vengan.
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 Que se apresuren y prorrumpan en lamento por nosotros para que nuestros ojos se deshagan en lágrimas y nuestros párpados destilen agua.
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 Porque en Sion fue oída una voz de lamento: ¡Cómo somos arruinados! Somos sometidos a gran vergüenza porque abandonamos la tierra, pues nuestras residencias fueron destruidas.
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, la Palabra de Yavé! ¡Reciba su oído la Palabra de su boca! Enseñen lamentaciones a sus hijas, cantos fúnebres, cada una a su vecina.
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 la muerte subió por nuestras ventanas. Entró en nuestros palacios. Arrebató a los niños en la calle y a los jóvenes 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 Dí: Yavé dice: Los cadáveres caerán como abono sobre la superficie del campo, como manojo detrás del que cosecha, pero nadie los recogerá.
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 Yavé dice: No se alabe el sabio en su sabiduría, ni el valiente en su valentía, ni el rico en sus riquezas.
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 Sino alábese en esto el que se alabe: En entenderme y conocerme, que Yo soy Yavé, Quien practica misericordia, juicio y justicia en la tierra, porque quiero estas cosas, dice Yavé.
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 En verdad, vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando castigaré a todo circuncidado y a todo incircunciso:
25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
26 A Egipto, a Judá y a Edom, a los hijos de Amón y a Moab, a todos los que se rapan las sienes y a los habitantes del desierto. Porque todas las naciones son incircuncisas, y toda la Casa de Israel es incircuncisa de corazón.
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 (26)
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
- 18 Jeremiah 9:1; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 9:20; Lamentations 2:11
- 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
- 26 Leviticus 26:41; Jeremiah 4:4; Ezekiel 44:7; Isaiah 19:24–25; Romans 2:28–29
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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).
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