Jeremiah 16
1 Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Entonces la Palabra de Yavé vino a mí:
2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
No tomarás esposa para ti. No tendrás hijos ni hijas en este lugar.
3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
Porque con respecto a los hijos e hijas que nazcan en este lugar, a las madres que los den a luz y de los padres que los engendren en esta tierra, Yavé dice:
4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Morirán de muerte cruel. No serán llorados ni sepultados. Serán como abono sobre la superficie de la tierra. Serán consumidos por la espada y el hambre. Sus cadáveres servirán de comida para las aves del cielo y las bestias de la tierra.
5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.
Yavé dice: No entres en casa del duelo, ni vayas a lamentar, ni los consueles, porque retiré de este pueblo mi paz, mi misericordia y mi compasión, dice Yavé.
6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
En esta tierra morirán grandes y pequeños. No serán sepultados ni los llorarán, ni por ellos se harán incisiones, ni se raparán la cabeza,
7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
ni saldrán con pan para consolar a los que estén de luto por ellos, ni les darán la copa de consuelo por su padre o por su madre.
8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.
Tampoco entres en la casa del banquete para sentarte a comer y beber con ellos.
9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
Porque Yavé de las huestes, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: Ciertamente Yo suspendo en este lugar, en los días de ustedes y ante ustedes, toda voz de gozo y toda voz de alegría, la voz del novio y la de la novia.
10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
Acontecerá que cuando anuncies a este pueblo todas estas cosas, te preguntarán: ¿Por qué Yavé pronuncia contra nosotros todo este mal tan grande? ¿Cuáles delitos o pecados cometimos contra Yavé nuestro ʼElohim?
11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
Entonces les dirás: Porque sus antepasados me abandonaron, dice Yavé, fueron tras otros ʼelohim, se postraron ante ellos y les sirvieron. Pero a Mí me abandonaron y no observaron mi Ley.
12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
Ustedes actuaron peor que sus antepasados, porque en verdad cada uno de ustedes sigue lo que le dicta su malvado corazón de tal modo que no me escucha.
13 For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
Los echaré de esta tierra a una tierra que ustedes ni sus antepasados conocieron. Allá servirán a ʼelohim extraños día y noche, porque no les mostraré clemencia.
14 For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.
Pero, ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando ya no se dirá: ¡Vive Yavé, Quien sacó a los hijos de Israel de la tierra de Egipto!
15 But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.
Sino: ¡Vive Yavé, que sacó a los hijos de Israel de la tierra del norte y de todas las tierras adonde los echó! Porque los devolveré a su tierra, la cual di a sus antepasados.
16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Miren, enviaré muchos pescadores que los pesquen, dice Yavé. Después enviaré muchos cazadores que los cacen por las montañas y colinas, y por las hendiduras de las peñas.
17 For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
Porque mis ojos están sobre todos sus caminos. No se me ocultarán, ni su iniquidad está encubierta de mis ojos.
18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
Pero primero les pagaré al doble su iniquidad y su pecado, porque contaminaron mi tierra con los cadáveres de sus ídolos y llenaron mi heredad con sus repugnancias.
19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
Oh Yavé, Fuerza mía y Fortaleza mía, mi Refugio en tiempo de aflicción. A ti vendrán las naciones desde los extremos de la tierra y dirán: En verdad, nuestros antepasados heredaron mentira, vanidad en la cual no hay provecho.
20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
¿El hombre se fabrica ʼelohim? ¡Pero esos no son ʼelohim!
21 For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my power; and they will be certain that my name is the Lord.
Por tanto ciertamente, esta vez les mostraré mi poder y mi fortaleza. Sabrán que mi nombre es Yavé.
