Jeremiah 22
1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,
Así dice Yahvé: “Baja a la casa del rey de Judá, y di allí esta palabra:
2 And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.
Dirás: Escucha la palabra de Yahvé, oh rey de Judá, que te sientas en el trono de David, tú, y tus servidores, y tu pueblo, los que entráis por estas puertas.
3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Así dice Yahvé: Haced lo recto y lo justo, y librad al oprimido de mano del opresor: no maltratéis al extranjero, al huérfano y a la viuda, ni les hagáis violencia; y no derraméis sangre inocente en este lugar.
4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people
Si de veras cumpliereis esta palabra, entrarán por las puertas de esta Casa reyes que se sienten en el trono de David, montados en carrozas y caballos; ellos y sus servidores y su pueblo.
5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.
Pero si no escucháis estas palabras, entonces por Mí mismo juro, dice Yahvé, que esta Casa vendrá a ser desolada.
6 For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.
Porque así dice Yahvé acerca de la casa del rey de Judá: Aunque eras para mí un Galaad y (como) la cima del Líbano; con todo haré de ti un desierto, una ciudad inhabitada.
7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.
He consagrado contra ti destructores, cada uno con sus armas; cortarán tus cedros escogidos y los echarán al fuego.
8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?
Y pasará mucha gente ante esta ciudad, y se dirán unos a otros: «¿Por qué ha tratado Yahvé así a esta gran ciudad?»
9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
Y se dará por respuesta: «Porque abandonaron el pacto de Yahvé, su Dios, y adoraron a otros dioses y los sirvieron».”
10 Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.
No lloréis al difunto, ni hagáis duelo por él; llorad al contrario por el que se ha ido (al cautiverio), porque no volverá más, ni verá la tierra de su nacimiento.
11 For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:
Porque así dice Yahvé en orden a Sellum, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá, el que reinó en lugar de su padre Josías, y salió de este lugar: “No volverá más aquí;
12 But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.
en el lugar adonde le han llevado cautivo, allí morirá, y no verá ya más esta tierra.”
13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
Ay del que edifica su casa sin justicia, y sus salones sin equidad; que hace trabajar a su prójimo sin salario, y no le paga el jornal de su trabajo;
14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
que dice: “Me edificaré una casa grande, con amplias salas”, y hace en ella grandes ventanas, la cubre de cedros y la pinta de bermellón.
15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
¿Acaso tú eres rey para rivalizar en obras de cedro? ¿Por ventura no comió y bebió tu padre y fue feliz haciendo lo recto y justo?
16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
Defendía la causa del pobre y del desvalido; y así le fue bien. ¿No es esto conocerme a Mí? dice Yahvé.
17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Pero tus ojos y tu corazón no buscan más que tu propio interés, el derramar sangre inocente y hacer opresión y violencia.
18 So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Por tanto, así dice Yahvé respecto de Joakim, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá: “No le lamentarán (diciendo): «¡Ay, hermano mío!» «¡Ay, hermana mía!» No le llorarán (clamando): «¡Ay, señor mío!» «¡Ay, su majestad!»
19 They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.
Será enterrado como un asno; le arrastrarán y le arrojarán fuera de las puertas de Jerusalén.”
20 Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction
Sube (oh Jerusalén) al Líbano y clama; en Basan alza tu voz; grita desde Abarim; pues han sido destruidos todos tus amantes.
21 My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.
Yo te hablé en tu prosperidad, y tú dijiste: “No quiero escuchar.” Este ha sido tu proceder desde tu mocedad; no has escuchado mi voz.
22 All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.
El viento llevará a todos tus pastores, y tus amantes irán al cautiverio. Entonces te llenarás de confusión, y de vergüenza a causa de todas tus maldades.
23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
Tú que habitas en el Líbano y anidas en los cedros, ¡cómo gemirás cuando te sobrevengan las angustias, los dolores, como a mujer que da a luz!
24 By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;
“Por mi vida, dice Yahvé; aunque Jeconías, hijo de Joakim, rey de Judá, fuese el anillo de mi mano derecha, de allí te arrancaría,
25 And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
te entregaré a los que buscan tu vida, en poder de los que temes; en manos de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y en poder de los caldeos.
26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.
Te arrojaré a ti y a tu madre que te dio a luz, a otro país, en que no nacisteis, y allí moriréis.
27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.
No volverán al país adonde su alma anhela volver.”
28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?
¿Es, pues, este hombre Jeconías una vasija despreciada y quebrada, algún objeto que nadie quiere? ¿Por qué son arrojados él y su linaje, y llevados a un país que no conocían?
29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!
¡Tierra, tierra, tierra, escucha la palabra de Yahvé!
30 The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.
Así dice Yahvé: “Inscribid a este hombre como estéril, como varón que no ha prosperado durante toda su vida, Pues no logrará que un descendiente suyo se siente en el trono de David para reinar en Judá.”
