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Jeremiah 16 Free Bible Version (Spanish)

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1 Un mensaje del Señor que vino a mí, diciendo:
1 Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 No te cases ni tengas hijos aquí.
2 “You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
3 Esto es lo que dice el Señor sobre los niños que nacen aquí, y sobre sus madres y padres, es decir, sus padres aquí en este país:
3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
4 Morirán de enfermedades mortales. Nadie los llorará. Sus cuerpos no serán enterrados, sino que yacerán en el suelo como el estiércol. Serán destruidos por la guerra y el hambre, y sus cuerpos serán alimento para las aves de rapiña y los animales salvajes.
4 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
5 Esto es lo que dice el Señor: No entres en una casa donde la gente esté celebrando una comida fúnebre. No los visites para llorar ni para darles el pésame, porque les he quitado mi paz, mi amor fiel y mi misericordia, declara el Señor.
5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
6 Todos, desde el más importante hasta el más insignificante, morirán en este país. No se les enterrará ni se les llorará; no habrá ritos para los muertos, como el inmolarse o afeitarse la cabeza.
6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.
7 No se celebrarán recepciones fúnebres para consolar a los que lloran; ni siquiera se ofrecerá una bebida reconfortante ante la pérdida de un padre o una madre.
7 Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
8 No entres en una casa donde la gente está de fiesta ni te sientes con ellos a comer y beber.
8 “You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
9 Esto es lo que dice el Señor Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: Voy a poner fin aquí mismo, mientras tú observas, a cualquier sonido de celebración y alegría, a las voces alegres de los novios.
9 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 Cuando les expliques todo esto, te preguntarán: “¿Por qué ha ordenado el Señor que nos ocurra un desastre tan terrible? ¿Qué hemos hecho mal? ¿Qué pecado hemos cometido contra el Señor, nuestro Dios?”
10 It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
11 Contéstales: Es porque sus antepasados me abandonaron, declara el Señor. Se fueron y siguieron a otros dioses, sirviéndolos y adorándolos. Me abandonaron y no cumplieron mis leyes.
11 then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
12 Ustedes, sin embargo, han hecho aún más mal que sus antepasados. Miren cómo todos ustedes siguieron su propio y obstinado pensamiento malvado en lugar de obedecerme.
12 You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
13 Así que voy a expulsarlos de este país y a exiliarlos a un país desconocido para ustedes y sus antepasados. Allí servirán a otros dioses día y noche, porque yo no los ayudaré en nada.
13 Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
14 ¡Pero escuchen! Se acerca el tiempo, declara el Señor, en que la gente ya no hará votos, diciendo. “Por la vida del Señor, que sacó a los israelitas de Egipto”.
14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
15 En cambio, dirán: “Por la vida del Señor, que hizo regresar a los israelitas del país del norte y de todos los demás países donde los había exiliado”. Los haré regresar al país que les di a sus antepasados.
15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Pero por el momento voy a enviar por muchos pescadores y ellos los pescarán, declara el Señor. Luego voy a enviar a muchos cazadores, y los cazarán en todas las montañas y colinas, incluso desde sus escondites en las rocas.
16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17 Yo veo todo lo que hacen. No pueden esconderse de mí, y sus pecados tampoco están ocultos para mí.
17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
18 Primero voy a pagarles el doble por su maldad y su pecado, porque han ensuciado mi tierra con los cuerpos sin vida de sus repugnantes ídolos, llenando mi país especial con sus ofensivas imágenes paganas.
18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
19 Señor, tú eres mi fuerza y mi fortaleza, mi lugar seguro en el tiempo de angustia. Vendrán a ti naciones de toda la tierra, y dirán: “¡La religión de nuestros antepasados era una total mentira! Los ídolos que adoraban eran inútiles, no servían para nada.
19 Yahweh, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
20 ¿Cómo puede la gente hacerse dioses para sí misma? Estos no son dioses!”
20 Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”
21 ¡Ahora verán! Les mostraré, y entonces reconocerán mi poder y mi fuerza. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el Señor!
21 “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
Cross references (21)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Jeremiah 1:4; Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:1
  2. 2 1 Corinthians 7:26–27; Luke 23:29; Genesis 19:14; Luke 21:23; Matthew 24:19
  3. 3 Jeremiah 16:5; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 6:21
  4. 4 Jeremiah 25:33; Psalm 83:10; Jeremiah 9:22; Zephaniah 1:17; Jeremiah 34:20
  5. 5 Ezekiel 24:16–23; Isaiah 27:11; Jeremiah 15:1–4; Deuteronomy 31:17; Jeremiah 16:6–7
  6. 6 Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 41:5; Leviticus 19:28; Jeremiah 48:37
  7. 7 Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Deuteronomy 26:14; Job 42:11; Proverbs 31:6–7
  8. 8 Ecclesiastes 7:2–4; Jeremiah 15:17; Isaiah 22:12–14; Amos 6:4–6; Luke 17:27–29
  9. 9 Hosea 2:11; Ezekiel 26:13; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 25:10; Isaiah 24:7–12
  10. 10 Jeremiah 5:19; Deuteronomy 29:24–25; 1 Kings 9:8–9; Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 2:35
  11. 11 Psalm 106:35–41; Ezekiel 11:21; Nehemiah 9:26–29; Jeremiah 22:9; 1 Peter 4:3
  12. 12 Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 7:26; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 7:24
  13. 13 Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 4:26–28; Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 17:4; 2 Chronicles 7:20
  14. 14 Jeremiah 23:7–8; Deuteronomy 15:15; Exodus 20:2; Hosea 3:4–5; Micah 6:4
  15. 15 Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 32:37; Jeremiah 24:6; Amos 9:14; Ezekiel 39:28
  16. 16 Habakkuk 1:14–15; Amos 4:2; Micah 7:2; Revelation 6:15–17; Amos 9:1–3
  17. 17 Proverbs 15:3; Proverbs 5:21; Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 90:8; Job 34:21–22
  18. 18 Isaiah 40:2; Numbers 35:33–34; Jeremiah 17:18; Jeremiah 2:7; Revelation 18:6
  19. 19 Isaiah 25:4; Nahum 1:7; Jeremiah 17:17; Isaiah 2:2–3; Isaiah 44:10
  20. 20 Psalm 115:4–8; Isaiah 37:19; Galatians 4:8; Acts 19:26; Isaiah 36:19
  21. 21 Psalm 9:16; Jeremiah 33:2; Psalm 83:18; Amos 5:8; Exodus 15:3

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Quotes verse 16:19 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVIII, Chapters 33–35)

    … we now see fulfilled, he thus spoke: "O Lord my God, and my refuge in the day of evils, to Thee shall the nations come from the utmost end of the earth, saying, Truly our fathers have worshipped lying images, wherein there is no profit." But that the Jews, by whom He behoved even to be slain, were not going …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 16:19 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXV)

    Therefore nations that are converted to Christ afterwards, and taking to heart the impieties of their parents, and saying now what the prophet Jeremias himself said, "Truly a lie our fathers have worshipped, vanity which hath not profited them" --when, I say, they now say this, they renounce the opinions and blasphemies of their unjust parents....There have led us away …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 16:19 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XCIV)

    … if the heathen who came from the ends of the earth, in the words of Jeremias, "The Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our forefathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit:" if the heathen forsook their idols, to come to the God of Israel; ought Israel …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)