Jeremiah · Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Jeremiah 9 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Cómo quisiera que mi cabeza fuera un manantial de agua, y mis ojos una fuente de lágrimas. Entonces lloraría día y noche por todo mi pueblo que ha sido asesinado.
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 Ojalá tuviera un refugio temporal en el desierto; renunciaría a mi pueblo y lo abandonaría, porque todos son adúlteros, una banda 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 Sus palabras son como flechas lanzadas desde un arco. La mentira se impone a la verdad en todo el país. Van de mal en peor y se olvidan de mí, declara 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 ¡Cuidado con tus amigos! ¡Ni siquiera confíes en tu hermano! Todo hermano es engañoso, y todo amigo calumnia a los demás.
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 Todos traicionan a sus amigos; nadie dice la verdad. Se han convertido en expertos mentirosos; se cansan de hacer el mal.
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 Todos se explotan mutuamente, y en medio de todas sus mentiras no quieren conocerme, declara el Señor.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
7 Así que esto es lo que dice el Señor Todopoderoso: Mira, voy a probarlos y a purificarlos como el metal en un horno. ¿Qué más puedo hacer por lo que ha hecho 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 Sus palabras son flechas que matan; siempre dicen mentiras. Por fuera son amables con sus amigos, pero por dentro conspiran contra ellos.
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 castigarlos por todo esto? declara el Señor. ¿No debo tomar represalias por lo que ha hecho esta nación?
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10 Lloraré y me lamentaré por los montes, cantaré un canto fúnebre sobre los pastos del campo, porque han quedado tan quemados que nadie puede pasar por ellos, y no hay ganado que haga ruido. Las aves han volado y los animales salvajes han huido.
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 Voy a convertir a Jerusalén en un montón de escombros, en un lugar donde viven los chacales. Destruiré las ciudades de Judá, y las dejaré vacías.
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 tan sabio como para entender esto? ¿Le ha dicho el Señor esto a alguien para que pueda explicar lo que ha sucedido? ¿Por qué la tierra ha sido destruida y quemada hasta quedar como un desierto, para que nadie pueda pasar 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 El Señor respondió: Es porque han dejado de cumplir mis leyes que les puse enfrente. No las han seguido; no han hecho lo que les dije.
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 Por el contrario, han seguido su propia y obstinada manera de pensar, y han ido a adorar a los baales, tal como sus antepasados les enseñaron.
14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
15 Así que esto es lo que dice el Señor Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: ¡Cuidado! Voy a dar a esta gente ajenjo para comer y agua envenenada para beber.
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 Estoy a punto de dispersarlos entre naciones desconocidas para ellos y para sus antepasados, y enviaré enemigos con espadas para que los persigan hasta que los haya aniquilado.
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 Esto es lo que dice el Señor Todopoderoso: Estén atentos a lo que sucede. Convoquen a las mujeres dolientes profesionales, y pidan lo mejor de ellas.
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 Haz que vengan cuanto antes y canten un canto fúnebre sobre nosotros, para que lloremos a mares, para que nuestras lágrimas fluyan como torrentes.
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 El sonido del llanto viene de Sión: “¡Estamos completamente devastados! Estamos totalmente avergonzados, porque hemos tenido que abandonar nuestro país, porque nuestras casas han sido demolidas”.
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 Mujeres, escuchen el mensaje del Señor, oigan lo que tiene que decir. Enséñenle a sus hijas a llorar y a cantar cantos de tristeza.
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 La muerte se ha colado por nuestras ventanas; ha entrado en nuestras fortalezas. Ha matado a los niños que juegan en las calles y a los jóvenes que se reúnen 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 Díganle a todos que esto es lo que dice el Señor: Los cadáveres quedarán donde caen como el estiércol en los campos, tirados allí como tallos de grano recién cortado detrás del segador, sin que nadie los recoja.
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 Esto es lo que dice el Señor: El sabio no debe jactarse de su sabiduría. El fuerte no debe presumir de su fuerza. El rico no debe presumir de 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 El que quiera vanagloriarse, que se jacte de que me conoce y me entiende de verdad, reconociendo que soy el Señor que actúa con amor fiel, que muestra equidad y que hace lo correcto en toda la tierra, porque esto es lo más importante para mí, declara el Señor.
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 Cuidado, porque se acerca el momento, declara el Señor, en que castigaré a todos los que sólo se circuncidan físicamente.
25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
26 Egipto, Judá, Edom, Amón, Moab y todos los pueblos del desierto que se cortan el pelo a los lados de la cabeza: todas estas naciones son incircuncisas, y todos los israelitas son incircuncisos espirituales.
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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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 …
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