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 dijo Jehová: He aquí que yo levanto sobre Babilonia, y sobre sus moradores, que de corazón se levantan contra mí, un viento destruidor.
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.
Y enviaré en Babilonia aventadores que la aventen, y vaciarán su tierra; porque serán contra ella de todas partes en el día del mal.
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.
Diré al flechero que entesa su arco, y al que se pone orgulloso con su loriga: No perdonéis a sus mancebos; destruíd todo su ejército.
4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
Y caerán muertos en la tierra de los Caldeos, y alanceados 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 no ha enviudado Israel y Judá de su Dios, Jehová de los ejércitos, aunque su tierra fue llena de pecado al 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, y escapád cada uno su alma, porque no perezcáis a causa de su maldad; porque el tiempo es de venganza de Jehová: darle ha su pago.
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.
Vaso de oro fue Babilonia en la mano de Jehová, que embriaga toda la tierra: de su vino bebieron las naciones, por tanto enloquecerán las naciones.
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.
En un momento cayó Babilonia, y se quebrantó: aullád sobre ella: tomád bálsamo para su dolor: quizá sanará.
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.
Curamos a Babilonia, y no sanó: dejádla, y vámonos cada uno a su tierra; porque llegado ha hasta el cielo su juicio; y alzádose ha 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.
Jehová sacó a luz nuestras justicias: veníd, y contemos en Sión la obra de Jehová nuestro Dios.
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.
Limpiád las saetas, embrazád los escudos: despertado ha Jehová el espíritu de los reyes de Media, porque contra Babilonia es su pensamiento para destruirla; porque venganza es de Jehová, venganza es 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.
Levantád bandera sobre los muros de Babilonia: fortificád la guarda, ponéd guardas: aparejád celadas; porque aun pensó Jehová, y aun puso en efecto lo que dijo sobre los moradores de Babilonia.
13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.
La que moras entre muchas aguas, rica de tesoros, venido ha tu fin, la medida de tu codicia.
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.
Jehová de los ejércitos juró por sí mismo: Si no te hinchiere de hombres como de langostas, y cantarán sobre ti canción de lagareros.
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:
El que hace la tierra con su fortaleza, el que afirma el mundo con su sabiduría, y extiende los cielos con su prudencia.
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.
El que da con voz multitud de aguas del cielo: después él hace subir las nubes de lo postrero de la tierra: hace relámpagos con la lluvia, y saca el viento de sus tesoros.
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 se enloquece a esta sabiduría: todo platero se avergüenza de la escultura, porque mentira es su vaciadizo, que no tienen espíritu.
18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Vanidad son, y obra de escarnios, en el tiempo de su visitación perecerán.
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.
No es como ellos la parte de Jacob; porque él es el formador de todo: e Israel es la vara de su heredad: Jehová 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;
Martillo me sois, o! armas de guerra, y por ti quebrantaré naciones; y por ti desharé 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;
Y por ti quebrantaré caballos y sus caballeros; y por ti quebrantaré carros y los que en ellos suben;
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;
Y por ti quebrantaré varones y mujeres; y por ti quebrantaré viejos y mozos; y por ti quebrantaré mancebos y vírgenes;
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.
Y por ti quebrantaré al pastor y a su manada; por ti quebrantaré labradores y sus yuntas; y por ti quebrantaré duques y príncipes.
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.
Y pagaré a Babilonia, y a todos los moradores de Caldea, todo el mal de ellos, que hicieron en Sión delante de vuestros ojos, dijo Jehová.
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.
He aquí yo contra ti, o! monte destruidor, dijo Jehová, que destruiste toda la tierra; y extenderé mi mano sobre ti, y hacerte he rodar de las peñas, y tornarte he monte quemado.
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 nadie tomará de ti piedra para esquina, ni piedra para cimiento; porque en perpetuos asolamientos serás, dijo Jehová.
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.
Alzád bandera en la tierra, tocád trompeta en las naciones, apercebíd naciones contra ella, juntád contra ella los reinos de Ararat, de Minni, y de Ascenes: señalád contra ella capitán, hacéd subir 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.
Apercebíd contra ella naciones: a reyes de Media, a sus capitanes, y a todos sus príncipes, y a toda la tierra de su señorío.
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.
Y temblará la tierra, y afligirse ha; porque confirmado es contra Babilonia todo el pensamiento de Jehová, para poner la tierra de Babilonia en soledad, y que no haya morador.
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 valientes de Babilonia dejaron de pelear, estuviéronse en los fuertes: faltóles su fortaleza: tornáronse como mujeres: encendieron los enemigos sus casas, quebraron 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:
Correo se encontrará con correo, y mensajero se encontrará con mensajero, para dar las nuevas al rey de Babilonia, que su ciudad es tomada por todas partes:
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.
Y los vados fueron tomados, y los carrizos fueron quemados a fuego, y los hombres de guerra se asombraron.
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 dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: la hija de Babilonia es como parva, tiempo es ya de trillarla: de aquí a un poco le vendrá 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.
Comióme, y desmenuzóme Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia: paróme como vaso vacío: tragóme como dragón: hinchió su vientre de mis delicadezas, y me echó.
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.
Mi robo y mi carne está en Babilonia, dirá la moradora de Sión; y mi sangre en los moradores de Caldea, dirá Jerusalem.
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 tanto así dijo Jehová: He aquí que yo juzgo tu causa, y vengaré tu venganza; y secaré su mar, y haré que quede seca su corriente.
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.
Y será Babilonia en majanos morada de dragones, espanto, y silbo, sin morador.
38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
A una bramarán como leones: bramarán como cachorros de leones.
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 calor les pondré sus banquetes; y haréles que se embriaguen para que se alegren, y duerman eterno sueño, y no despierten, dijo Jehová.
40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
Hacerlos he traer como corderos al matadero, como carneros con machos de cabrío.
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 fue presa Sesac, y fue tomada la que era alabada por toda la tierra? ¿Cómo fue por espanto Babilonia entre las naciones?
42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
Subió la mar sobre Babilonia, de la multitud de sus ondas fue cubierta.
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 fueron asoladas, la tierra seca y desierta, tierra que no morará en ella nadie, ni pasará por ella hijo de hombre,
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.
Y visitaré a Bel en Babilonia, y sacaré de su boca lo que ha tragado; y naciones no vendrán más a él; y el muro de Babilonia caerá.
45 My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
Salíd de en medio de ella, pueblo mío, y escapád cada uno su vida de la ira del furor de Jehová.
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.
Y porque no se enternezca vuestro corazón, y temáis, a causa de la fama que se oirá por la tierra: en un año vendrá la fama, y después en otro año el rumor, y luego vendrá la violencia en la tierra, y el enseñoreador sobre el que enseñorea.
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 tanto he aquí que vienen días que yo visitaré las esculturas de Babilonia, y toda su tierra se avergonzará, y todos sus muertos caerán 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.
Y los cielos, y la tierra, y todo lo que en ellos está, dirán alabanzas sobre Babilonia; porque de la parte del aquilón vendrán sobre ella destruidores, dijo Jehová.
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.
Pues que Babilonia fue causa que cayesen muertos de Israel, también por causa de Babilonia cayeron 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 escapasteis de la espada, andád, no os detengáis: acordáos por muchos días de Jehová, y acordáos de Jerusalem.
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, porque oímos la afrenta: cubrió vergüenza nuestros rostros, porque vinieron extranjeros contra los santuarios de la casa de Jehová.
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 tanto, he aquí, vienen días, dijo Jehová, que yo visitaré sus esculturas, y en toda su tierra gemirá herido de muerte.
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.
Si se subiese Babilonia al cielo, y si fortaleciere en lo alto su fuerza, de mí vendrán a ella destruidores, dijo Jehová.
54 There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:
Sonido de grito de Babilonia, y quebrantamiento 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:
Porque Jehová destruye a Babilonia, y quitará de ella el mucho estruendo; y bramarán sus ondas: como muchas aguas será el sonido de la voz de ellos:
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 contra ella, contra Babilonia, destruidor, y sus valientes fueron presos, el arco de ellos fue quebrado; porque el Dios de pagas Jehová pagará pagando.
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.
Y embriagaré sus príncipes, y sus sabios, sus capitanes, y sus nobles, y sus fuertes; y dormirán sueño eterno, y no despertarán, dice el Rey, Jehová de los ejércitos es su nombre.
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 dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: El muro ancho de Babilonia derribando será derribado, y sus altas puertas serán quemadas a fuego; y trabajarán pueblos y naciones en vano en el fuego, y cansarse han.
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.
Palabra que envió Jeremías profeta a Saraías, hijo de Nerías, hijo de Maasías, cuando iba con Sedecías, rey de Judá, a Babilonia, el cuarto año de su reino; y era Saraías el principal camarero.
60 And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.
Y escribió Jeremías en un libro todo el mal que había de venir sobre Babilonia: todas las palabras que están 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 Saraías: Cuando llegares a Babilonia, y vieres, y leyeres todas estas cosas,
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.
Dirás: Jehová, tú dijiste contra este lugar que lo habías de talar, hasta no quedar en él morador, ni hombre, ni animal, mas que para siempre ha de ser asolado.
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 será que cuando acabares de leer este libro, atarle has una piedra, y echarlo has 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 será anegada Babilonia, y no se levantará del mal que yo traigo sobre ella: y cansarse han. Hasta aquí son las palabras de Jeremías.
