Jeremiah 51
1 The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;
Así dice Yahvé: “Ved que voy a suscitar un espíritu destructor contra Babel y contra los moradores de Caldea.
2 And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.
Enviaré a Babilonia aventadores que la aventarán, y que despojen su país y lo rodeen por todas partes en el día de la desdicha.
3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.
Entese el arquero su arco contra el arquero, y contra aquel que se jacta de su coraza. No perdonéis a sus jóvenes, exterminad a todas sus huestes”,
4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
para que caigan muertos en la tierra de los caldeos y traspasados en sus calles.
5 For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Porque Israel y Judá no son viudas (desamparadas) de su Dios, Yahvé de los ejércitos: aunque su país está lleno de culpa contra el Santo de Israel.
6 Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
Huid de en medio de Babilonia, salve cada uno su vida, no sea que perezcáis por la iniquidad de ella; porque, tiempo es de la venganza de Yahvé; Él va a darle su merecido.
7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.
Babilonia era un cáliz de oro en la mano de Yahvé, para embriagar a toda la tierra; de su vino bebieron los pueblos de modo que enloquecieron.
8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
De repente ha caído Babilonia, y ha sido quebrantada; lamentadla, tomad bálsamo para su herida, a ver si sana.
9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
Hemos procurado curar a Babilonia, pero ella no ha sanado. Abandonadla, y vámonos cada cual a su país, pues su crimen alcanza hasta el cielo, y se alza hasta las nubes.
10 The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.
Yahvé ha manifestado nuestra justicia; venid, y narremos en Sión la obra de Yahvé, Dios nuestro.”
11 Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.
Aguzad las saetas, cubríos con los escudos; Yahvé ha excitado el espíritu de los reyes de los medos; porque su plan contra Babilonia es destruirla; es la venganza de Yahvé, la venganza de su Templo.
12 Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
Alzad el estandarte contra los muros de Babilonia, aumentad la vigilancia; poned centinelas, y disponed emboscadas, porque Yahvé ejecuta lo que se ha propuesto, o que ha anunciado contra los habitantes de Babel.
13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
Tú que habitas junto a muchas aguas, rica en tesoros, ha llegado tu fin, (está llena) la medida de tus rapiñas.
14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.
Yahvé de los ejércitos ha jurado por sí mismo: “Te inundaré de hombres como si fuesen langostas, y lanzarán contra ti gritos” (de victoria).
15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
Él hizo la tierra con su poder, fundó el orbe con su sabiduría, y con su inteligencia desplegó los cielos.
16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
A su voz se amontonan las aguas en el cielo; Él hace subir las nubes desde los extremos de la tierra, prepara los relámpagos para la lluvia, y saca de sus depósitos los vientos.
17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Todo hombre es necio, sin inteligencia; avergüéncese todo artífice de sus ídolos, porque mentira son sus imágenes de fundición, y no hay aliento en ellas.
18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Cosas vanas son, obras de engaño; perecerán en el tiempo de su castigo.
19 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
La porción de Jacob no es semejante a ellas, porque Él formó todas las cosas; (Israel) es la tribu de su herencia; Yahvé de los ejércitos es su nombre.
20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
“Tú me serviste de martillo, de arma de guerra; por medio de ti he aplastado pueblos, por medio de ti he destruido reinos;
21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
por medio de ti he aplastado al caballo y a su jinete, por medio de ti he aplastado el carro con el conductor;
22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
por medio de ti he aplastado al hombre y a la mujer, por medio de ti he aplastado al viejo y al niño, por medio de ti he aplastado al joven y a la doncella;
23 With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
por medio de ti he aplastado al pastor y su rebaño, por medio de ti he aplastado al labrador y su yunta, por medio de ti he aplastado a gobernadores y jefes.
24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
Pero retribuiré ante vuestros ojos a Babel y a todos los habitantes de Caldea, todo el mal que hicieron a Sión —oráculo de Yahvé.
25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.
Heme aquí contra ti, oh monte destructor, que has destruido toda la tierra, dice Yahvé. Yo extenderé mi mano contra ti, y te haré rodar desde lo alto de las peñas; y te convertiré en monte consumido por las llamas.
26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.
Y no se tomará de ti piedra angular, ni piedra fundamental, porque serás ruina perpetua, dice Yahvé.
27 Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.
Alzad bandera en la tierra, tocad la trompeta entre los pueblos, convocad contra ella las naciones, llamad los reinos de Ararat, Mení y Asquenaz, nombrad contra ella un Jefe, lanzad los caballos como langostas erizadas.
28 Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.
Consagrad contra ella los pueblos, los reyes de los medos, sus gobernadores y sus jefes, y todos los países de su dominio.
29 And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
Tiembla la tierra y se estremece, pues se cumplen contra Babilonia los planes de Yahvé, de hacer del país de Babilonia un desierto sin habitantes.
30 Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
Los guerreros de Babilonia dejan ya de luchar, permanecen en los baluartes; se acabó su fuerza, han venido a ser como mujeres; han sido quemadas sus casas, están rotos sus cerrojos.
31 One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:
Un correo corre para alcanzar a otro correo, y un mensajero a otro mensajero, para anunciar al rey de Babilonia que su ciudad ha sido tomada desde un cabo a otro;
32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.
que han sido ocupados los vados, que los cañaverales están en llamas y los guerreros llenos de consternación.
33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
Porque así dice Yahvé de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: “La hija de Babel es como una era que se aplana (para la trilla); un poco todavía, y llega para ella el tiempo de la siega”.
34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
“Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, me ha consumido, me ha destruido, me ha dejado como una vasija vacía; cual dragón me ha devorado; se ha llenado el vientre de mis mejores bocados, me ha echado fuera.”
35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
“¡Recaiga sobre Babel la violencia que he sufrido en mi carne”, dice la habitadora de Sión; “¡y mi sangre sobre los habitantes de Caldea!”, dice Jerusalén.
36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
Por eso, así dice Yahvé: “He aquí que Yo defenderé tu causa, y te vengaré; secaré su mar y haré que se agoten sus fuentes.
37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
Babel será un montón de ruinas, morada de chacales; objeto de pasmo y escarnio (tierra) sin habitantes.
38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
Braman a una como leones, rugen cual cachorros de león.
39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
En su fiebre les daré una bebida, los embriagaré, para que se diviertan, y duerman un sueño perpetuo, del cual no se despertarán, dice Yahvé.
40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
Los llevaré al matadero como corderos, como carneros y machos cabríos.”
41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
¡Cómo ha sido tomada Sesac, conquistada la gloria de toda la tierra! ¡Cómo se ha trocado Babel en objeto de horror entre los pueblos!
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
El mar ha inundado a Babilonia, la cubrió la muchedumbre de sus olas.
43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
Sus ciudades han venido a ser un desierto, una tierra seca y árida, tierra inhabitada por la cual no transitará hombre alguno.
44 And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.
“Castigaré a Bel en Babilonia, y arrancaré de su boca lo que ha engullido; ya no concurrirán a él las naciones; pues hasta los muros de Babilonia caerán.
45 My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
Salid de ella, oh pueblo mío, y salve cada cual su vida del furor de la ira de Yahvé.
46 So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
No se amedrente vuestro corazón, ni temáis los rumores que se oirán en la tierra. Un año correrá un rumor, y después, otro año, otro rumor; la violencia dominará en el país, un tirano seguirá a otro.
47 For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.
Por lo tanto, he aquí que vienen días en que castigaré los ídolos de Babel; toda su tierra quedará cubierta de vergüenza, y todos sus muertos yacerán en medio de ella.
48 And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
Celebrarán lo sucedido a Babilonia los cielos y la tierra y cuanto hay en ellos, porque desde el norte vendrán sobre ella los devastadores —oráculo de Yahvé.
49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
Babilonia caerá por los muertos de Israel, así como por Babilonia cayeron los muertos de toda la tierra.
50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
Los que habéis escapado a la espada, partid sin demora. Desde lejos acordaos de Yahvé, y Jerusalén ocupe vuestros corazones.
51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.
«Estamos avergonzados, conocemos nuestra ignominia, la confusión cubre nuestro rostro; pues los extranjeros penetraron en los lugares sagrados de la Casa de Yahvé».
52 For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.
Por esto, he aquí que vienen días, dice Yahvé, en que castigaré sus ídolos, y en todo su país se oirá el gemido de los traspasados.
53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
Aunque Babilonia se levantase hasta el cielo, e hiciese inaccesible su alta fortaleza, de mi parte le vendrán sus devastadores”, dice Yahvé.
54 There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
Alaridos se oyen de Babilonia, quebranto grande de la tierra de los caldeos;
55 For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:
pues devasta Yahvé a Babel y ahoga su voz jactanciosa; braman sus olas como copiosas aguas, retumba el fragor de su voz.
56 For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
Porque vino sobre ella, sobre Babel, el devastador; han sido apresados sus guerreros y rotos sus arcos; pues Dios de retribuciones es Yahvé; dará sin falta la paga.
57 And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
“Embriagaré a sus príncipes y a sus sabios, a sus gobernadores, a sus jefes y a sus valientes; y dormirán un sueño perpetuo, del cual no despertaran”, dice el Rey, cuyo nombre es Yahvé de los ejércitos.
58 The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.
Así dice Yahvé de los ejércitos: “Las anchas murallas de Babel serán totalmente destruidas, y quemadas sus altas puertas. Trabajaron los pueblos por nada, y las naciones se han cansado para el fuego.”
59 The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his rule. Now Seraiah was the chief controller of the house.
Orden que el profeta Jeremías dio a Seraías, hijo de Nerías, hijo de Maasías, cuando este se encaminó a Babilonia, con Sedecías, rey de Judá, en el año cuarto de su reinado. Seraías era camarero mayor.
60 And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.
Escribió Jeremías en un libro todo el mal que había de venir sobre Babilonia, todas estas palabras escritas contra Babilonia.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;
Y dijo Jeremías a Seraías: “Cuando hayas llegado a Babilonia, mira que leas en voz alta todas estas palabras;
62 And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.
y dirás: ¡Oh, Yahvé! Tú has anunciado que destruirás este lugar, de modo que no quede en él habitante, ni hombre ni bestia, sino que sea convertido en desierto perpetuo.
63 And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:
Y después de leer este libro, atarás a él una piedra y lo arrojarás en medio del Éufrates;
64 And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.
y dirás: «Así se sumergirá Babilonia, y no se recobrará del mal que voy a traer sobre ella. Así quedarán destruidos».” Hasta aquí las palabras de Jeremías.
