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1 Israel, if you want to come back, then come back to me, declares the Lord. If you get rid of these disgusting idols I see, and don't wander away,
1 SI te has de convertir, oh Israel, dice Jehová, conviértete á mí; y si quitares de delante de mí tus abominaciones, no andarás de acá para allá.
1 “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
2 and if when you make your vows, you do so only to me, sincerely, truly, and honestly, then the nations will be blessed by me, and they will praise me.
2 Y jurarás, [diciendo], Vive Jehová, con verdad, con juicio, y con justicia: y bendecirse han en él las gentes, y en él se gloriarán.
2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
3 This is what the Lord is saying to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed ground, and don't sow among the thorns.
3 Porque así dice Jehová á [todo] varón de Judá y de Jerusalem: Haced barbecho para vosotros, y no sembréis sobre espinas.
3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
4 Dedicate yourselves to the Lord; be totally committed to him, people of Judah and Jerusalem. Otherwise, my anger will blaze like fire, burning so hard that no one can put it out because of the evil you've done.
4 Circuncidaos á Jehová, y quitad los prepucios de vuestro corazón, varones de Judá y moradores de Jerusalem; no sea que mi ira salga como fuego, y se encienda y no haya quien apague, por la malicia de vuestras obras.
4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Announce this warning throughout Judah and Jerusalem! Tell them: Blow the trumpet everywhere in the country! Shout out, “Hurry! Let's run to the fortified towns for protection!”
5 Denunciad en Judá, y haced oir en Jerusalem, y decid: Sonad trompeta en la tierra. Pregonad, juntad, y decid: Reuníos, y entrémonos en las ciudades fuertes.
5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
6 Raise the danger flag; go to Zion! Find somewhere safe! Don't hesitate! I'm bringing enemies from the north who will cause terrible destruction.
6 Alzad bandera en Sión, juntaos, no os detengáis; porque yo hago venir mal del aquilón, y quebrantamiento grande.
6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
7 A lion has left his hiding place; a destroyer of nations has started out. He has left his den to come and turn your country into a wasteland. Your towns will be demolished, and no one will live there.
7 El león sube de su guarida, y el destruidor de gentes ha partido; salido ha de su asiento para poner tu tierra en soledad; tus ciudades serán asoladas, y sin morador.
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
8 Wear clothes made of sackcloth, weep and wail, crying out, “The Lord's furious anger against us hasn't stopped.”
8 Por esto vestíos de saco, endechad y aullad; porque la ira de Jehová no se ha apartado de nosotros.
8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
9 When that happens declares the Lord, the king and officials will lose heart, the priests will be devastated, and the prophets will be shocked.
9 Y será en aquel día, dice Jehová, que desfallecerá el corazón del rey, y el corazón de los príncipes, y los sacerdotes estarán atónitos, y se maravillarán los profetas.
9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
10 Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, you have completely fooled the people of Jerusalem by telling them, ‘You will have peace,’ while holding a sword to our throats.”
10 Y dije: ¡Ay, ay, Jehová Dios! verdaderamente en gran manera has engañado á este pueblo y á Jerusalem, diciendo, Paz tendréis; pues que el cuchillo ha venido hasta el alma.
10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
11 At that time the people of Jerusalem will be told, “A burning wind from the bare hills of the desert is blowing toward Jerusalem, but not to blow away the chaff or the dust.
11 En aquel tiempo se dirá de este pueblo y de Jerusalem: Viento seco de las alturas del desierto vino á la hija de mi pueblo, no para aventar, ni para limpiar.
11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
12 No, this wind is too strong for that, and it comes from me. Now I'm also going to tell them how I will punish them.”
12 Viento más vehemente que estos vendrá á mí: y ahora yo hablaré juicios con ellos.
12 A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
13 Look, he's rushing in like storm clouds; his chariots are like a whirlwind. His horses fly faster than eagles. “What a disaster! We're ruined!”
13 He aquí que subirá como nube, y su carro como torbellino: más ligeros con sus caballos que las águilas. ¡Ay de nosotros, porque dados somos á saco!
13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
14 Clean the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you can be saved. How long will you hold onto your evil thoughts?
14 Lava de la malicia tu corazón, oh Jerusalem, para que seas salva. ¿Hasta cuándo dejarás estar en medio de ti los pensamientos de iniquidad?
14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15 News is shouted out from Dan, announcing disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
15 Porque la [voz se oye] del que trae las nuevas desde Dan, y del que hace oir la calamidad desde el monte de Ephraim.
15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
16 “Let the nations know! Look what's happening! Announce this to Jerusalem: An army is coming to besiege you from a distant country; shouting war cries against the towns of Judah.
16 Decid á las gentes; he aquí, haced oir sobre Jerusalem: Guardas vienen de tierra lejana, y darán su voz sobre las ciudades de Judá.
16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 They encircle her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord.
17 Como las guardas de las heredades, estuvieron sobre ella en derredor, porque se rebeló contra mí, dice Jehová.
17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
18 You've brought this on yourself by your own attitudes and actions. This is your punishment, and it's so painful, it's like being stabbed in the heart!”
18 Tu camino y tus obras te hicieron esto, ésta tu maldad: por lo cual amargura penetrará hasta tu corazón.
18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
19 “I'm in agony, absolute agony! My heart is breaking! It's beating wildly in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I can't keep quiet because I've heard the trumpet, the signal for battle.
19 ¡Mis entrañas, mis entrañas! Me duelen las telas de mi corazón: mi corazón ruge dentro de mí; no callaré; porque voz de trompeta has oído, oh alma mía, pregón de guerra.
19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 News of one disaster after another comes flooding in, for the whole country is in ruins. My own home is destroyed in a moment, and everything inside.
20 Quebrantamiento sobre quebrantamiento es llamado; porque toda la tierra es destruída: en un punto son destruídas mis tiendas, en un momento mis cortinas.
20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
21 How long do I have to see the flags of war and hear the trumpets of battle?”
21 ¿Hasta cuándo tengo de ver bandera, tengo de oir voz de trompeta?
21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are foolish children who just don't understand. They're experts at doing evil, but they don't know how to do good.”
22 Porque mi pueblo es necio; no me conocieron los hijos ignorantes y los no entendidos; sabios para mal hacer, y para bien hacer no supieron.
22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; I looked to the heavens, and its light was gone.
23 Miré la tierra, y he aquí que estaba asolada y vacía; y los cielos, y no había en ellos luz.
23 I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked at the mountains, and saw that they were shaking; all the hills were swaying to and fro.
24 Miré los montes, y he aquí que temblaban, y todos los collados fueron destruídos.
24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
25 I looked, and nobody was left; all the birds had flown away.
25 Miré, y no parecía hombre, y todas las aves del cielo se habían ido.
25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
26 I looked, and the productive fields were a desert. All the towns were demolished because of the Lord's furious anger.
26 Miré, y he aquí el Carmelo desierto, y todas sus ciudades eran asoladas á la presencia de Jehová, á la presencia del furor de su ira.
26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
27 This is what the Lord says: “The whole country will be devastated, but I won't do so completely.
27 Porque así dijo Jehová: Toda la tierra será asolada; mas no haré consumación.
27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
28 The earth will mourn and the heavens above will go dark. I have spoken; this is what I have ordered. I'm not going to stop or change my mind.”
28 Por esto se enlutará la tierra, y los cielos arriba se oscurecerán, porque hablé, pensé, y no me arrepentí, ni me tornaré de ello.
28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
29 People from every town run away when they hear the enemy horsemen and archers coming. They hide in the forest and among the rocks. All the towns are abandoned; no one lives in them.
29 Del estruendo de la gente de á caballo y de los flecheros huyó toda la ciudad; entráronse en las espesuras de los bosques, y subiéronse en peñascos; todas las ciudades fueron desamparadas, y no quedó en ellas morador alguno.
29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
30 You, Jerusalem, now desolate, what are you going to do? Even though you dress in scarlet clothes, and put on gold jewelry, and paint your eyes with makeup, all your dressing-up is pointless! Your lovers hate you; they want to kill you!
30 Y tú, destruída, ¿qué harás? Bien que te vistas de grana, aunque te adornes con atavíos de oro, aunque pintes con antimonio tus ojos, en vano te engalanas; menospreciáronte los amadores, buscarán tu alma.
30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
31 I hear the cries like a woman in labor, the agonizing moans of a woman giving birth to her first child. These are the cries of the Daughter of Zion gasping for air, holding out her hands, saying, “Please help me—I'm being murdered!”
31 Porque voz oí como de mujer que está de parto, angustia como de primeriza; voz de la hija de Sión que lamenta y extiende sus manos, [diciendo]: ¡Ay ahora de mí! que mi alma desmaya á causa de los matadores.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
Referencias cruzadas (31)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 2:12; Jeremías 3:22; Ezequiel 43:9; Génesis 35:2; Jeremías 3:1
- 2 Isaías 65:16; Génesis 22:18; Jeremías 9:24; 1 Corintios 1:31; 2 Corintios 10:17
- 3 Oseas 10:12; Lucas 8:14; Lucas 8:7; Gálatas 6:7–8; Marcos 4:18–19
- 4 Deuteronomio 10:16; Romanos 2:28–29; Deuteronomio 30:6; Colosenses 2:11; Jeremías 9:26
- 5 Jeremías 8:14; Josué 10:20; Jeremías 6:1; Oseas 8:1; Amós 3:6
- 6 Jeremías 50:2; Jeremías 1:13–15; Jeremías 51:27; Jeremías 6:22; Jeremías 4:21
- 7 Isaías 6:11; Ezequiel 26:7–10; Isaías 1:7; Jeremías 2:15; Jeremías 5:6
- 8 Jeremías 6:26; Isaías 22:12; Isaías 10:4; Isaías 5:25; Isaías 32:11
- 9 Isaías 22:3–5; Isaías 29:9–10; Ezequiel 13:9–16; Isaías 19:16; Jeremías 37:19
- 10 Jeremías 5:12; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:9–12; Isaías 37:35; Jeremías 14:13–14; Romanos 1:28
- 11 Oseas 13:15; Ezequiel 17:10; Isaías 41:16; Lucas 3:17; Jeremías 8:19
- 12 Jeremías 1:16; Ezequiel 5:8; Ezequiel 6:11–13; Ezequiel 7:8–9
- 13 Isaías 19:1; Isaías 66:15; Lamentaciones 4:19; Habacuc 1:8; Isaías 5:28
- 14 Santiago 4:8; Isaías 55:7; Hechos 8:22; Romanos 1:21; Lucas 11:39
- 15 Jeremías 8:16; Jueces 18:29; Josué 17:15; Josué 20:7; Jeremías 6:1
- 16 Ezequiel 21:22; Jeremías 5:15; Isaías 39:3; Jeremías 2:15; Jeremías 31:10
- 17 Jeremías 5:23; 2 Reyes 25:1–4; Ezequiel 2:3–7; Lucas 19:43–44; Isaías 30:9
- 18 Salmo 107:17; Jeremías 2:19; Jeremías 2:17; Proverbios 1:31; Jeremías 6:19
- 19 Habacuc 3:16; Isaías 22:4; Isaías 16:11; Jeremías 9:1; Jeremías 9:10
- 20 Salmo 42:7; Joel 1:15; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:9; Ezequiel 7:25–26; Mateo 10:28
- 21 2 Crónicas 36:6–7; 2 Crónicas 35:25; 2 Crónicas 36:10; Jeremías 4:5–6; 2 Crónicas 36:3
- 22 1 Corintios 14:20; Romanos 16:19; Jeremías 5:21; Romanos 3:11; Oseas 4:6
- 23 Mateo 24:29; Marcos 13:24–25; Joel 3:15–16; Isaías 13:10; Génesis 1:2
- 24 Ezequiel 38:20; Isaías 5:25; Jeremías 10:10; Nahúm 1:5–6; Jueces 5:4–5
- 25 Sofonías 1:2–3; Jeremías 12:4; Jeremías 9:10; Oseas 4:3
- 26 Salmo 107:34; Miqueas 3:12; Jeremías 14:2–6; Isaías 7:20–25; Jeremías 12:4
- 27 Jeremías 46:28; Jeremías 5:18; Jeremías 5:10; Jeremías 30:11; Romanos 9:27–29
- 28 Números 23:19; Jeremías 12:4; Isaías 50:3; Oseas 4:3; Joel 2:30–31
- 29 Isaías 2:19–21; Jeremías 4:7; Apocalipsis 6:15–17; Isaías 30:17; Jeremías 39:4–6
- 30 Lamentaciones 1:2; 2 Reyes 9:30; Lamentaciones 1:19; Isaías 10:3; Ezequiel 16:36–41
- 31 Isaías 1:15; Lamentaciones 1:17; Jeremías 13:21; Jeremías 18:21; Lamentaciones 2:21
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… fatherless, and negligent of the cause of the widows." And Jeremiah, in like manner: "They," he says, "who rule my people did not know me; they are senseless and imprudent children; they are wise to do evil, but to do well they have no knowledge."