Jeremiah 19
1 Thus says the Lord: “Go, and take a potter’s earthen bottle from the elders of the people and from the elders of the priests.
Yavé dijo: Vé y compra una vasija de arcilla al alfarero. Lleva contigo ancianos del pueblo y ancianos de los sacerdotes.
2 And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is near the entrance to the earthen gate, and there you shall proclaim the words that I will speak to you.
Saldrás al Valle del Hijo de Hinom, que está en la entrada de la Puerta Oriental y proclama allí las palabras que Yo te diré.
3 And you shall say: Listen to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead an affliction over this place, so much so that it will ring in the ears of all who hear about it.
Y dí: Oh reyes de Judá y habitantes de Jerusalén, oigan la Palabra de Yavé. Yavé de las huestes, el ʼElohim de Israel, dice: Ciertamente Yo traigo una desgracia sobre este lugar de tal clase que a todo el que lo oiga le vibrarán los oídos.
4 For they have abandoned me, and they have made this place foreign, and they have offered libations in it to foreign gods, whom neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Porque me abandonaron y enajenaron este lugar. Ofrecieron en él incienso a otros ʼelohim que ellos no conocieron, ni sus antepasados, ni los reyes de Judá. Llenaron este lugar de sangre de inocentes.
5 And they have built the exalted places of Baal, in order to burn their children with fire as a holocaust to Baal, something that I did not instruct or speak of, nor did it enter into my heart.
Edificaron lugares altos a baal para quemar con fuego a sus hijos como holocaustos a baal, cosa que Yo no ordené ni dije, ni me vino a la mente.
6 Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Por tanto ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando ya no se llamará este lugar Tófet, ni Valle del Hijo de Hinom, sino Valle de la Matanza.
7 And I will scatter the counsel of Judah and of Jerusalem in this place. And I will overthrow them with the sword, in the sight of their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives. And I will give their carcasses to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the land as food.
Anularé el consejo de Judá y de Jerusalén en este lugar. Caerán a espada ante sus enemigos y en mano de los que buscan su vida. Daré sus cadáveres como comida a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra.
8 And I will set this city amid stupor and hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and they will hiss over all its wounds.
Convertiré a esta ciudad en espanto y burla. Todo el que pase por ella se asombrará y silbará a causa de todas sus plagas.
9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons and with the flesh of their daughters. And each one of them will eat the flesh of his friend during the blockade and the embargo by which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, will enclose them.
Dispondré que se coman la carne de sus hijos y sus hijas. Cada uno comerá la carne de su prójimo en el asedio y la aflicción, con los cuales los angustiarán sus enemigos y los que buscan sus vidas.
10 And you shall crush the bottle in the sight of the men who will go with you.
Luego quebrarás la vasija ante los ojos de los hombres que vayan contigo
11 And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: In the same way, I will crush this people and this city, just as the potter’s vessel was crushed and cannot be made whole again. And they will be buried at Topheth, because there will be no other place for burial.
y les dirás: Yavé de las huestes dice: De este modo quebraré a este pueblo y a esta ciudad, como se quiebra una vasija de arcilla, que no se puede restaurar. En Tófet serán enterrados, porque no habrá otro lugar para sepultar.
12 So will I do to this place and to its inhabitants, says the Lord. And I will make this city to be like Topheth.
Así haré a este lugar y a sus habitantes, dice Yavé. Convertiré esta ciudad como a Tófet.
13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean, just like the place of Topheth: all the houses on whose roofs they sacrificed to all the armies of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods.”
Las casas de Jerusalén y las casas de los reyes de Judá que están contaminadas serán como Tófet, todas las casas sobre cuyas azoteas ofrecen incienso a todo el ejército del cielo y vierten libaciones a otros ʼelohim.
14 Then Jeremiah arrived from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the atrium of the house of the Lord, and he said to all the people:
Jeremías regresó de Tófet, a donde lo envió Yavé a profetizar. Se puso en pie en el patio de la Casa de Yavé y dijo a todo el pueblo:
15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead over this community, and over all its cities, all the evils that I have spoken against it. For they have hardened their necks, so that they would not heed my words.”
Yavé de las huestes, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: Ciertamente Yo traigo sobre esta ciudad y todas sus aldeas toda calamidad que pronuncié contra ella, porque se volvieron indómitos para no escuchar mis Palabras.
