Jeremiah 19
1 This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go and buy a clay jar from a man who makes them. Then take with you some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests.
Así dijo Jehová: Vé, y compra un barril de barro del ollero, y lleva contigo alguno de los ancianos del pueblo, y de los ancianos de los sacerdotes:
2 Go out [of the city] past the Gate of Broken Pots, to the place [overlooking the dump for broken pottery in] the Ben-Hinnom Valley. Then give them a message.
Y saldrás al valle de Ben-hinnón que está a la entrada de la puerta oriental, y pregonarás allí las palabras que yo te hablaré.
3 Say to them, ‘[This message is for] you kings of Judah and [other] people of Jerusalem. Listen to what Yahweh is saying! The Commander of the armies of angels says that he will cause there to be a terrible disaster in [Jerusalem]. Those who hear about it will be stunned/shocked [IDM].
Dirás pues: Oíd palabra de Jehová, o! reyes de Judá, y moradores de Jerusalem: Así dice Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que yo traigo mal sobre este lugar, tal que quien lo oyere, le retiñan los oídos:
4 [That will happen] because [you Israeli] people have stopped worshiping me, and have caused this place to be a place where [you worship] foreign gods. You burn sacrifices to gods that neither you nor your ancestors nor [even] the kings of Judah ever heard about. And you have filled this place with the blood of innocent people [whom you have killed].
Porque me dejaron, y enajenaron este lugar, y ofrecieron perfumes en él a dioses ajenos, los cuales ellos no habían conocido, ni sus padres, ni los reyes de Judá; e hinchieron este lugar de sangre de inocentes.
5 You have built shrines to honor [your god] Baal, and at those shrines you have [killed] your own children and offered them to be sacrifices to Baal. I never commanded you to do that, I never spoke about doing that, I never even thought about anyone doing that.
Y edificaron altos a Baal, para quemar con fuego sus hijos en holocaustos, al mismo Baal: cosa que no les mandé, ni hablé, ni me vino al pensamiento.
6 So, beware, [because I, ] Yahweh, say that there will be a time when this garbage dump will no longer be called Topheth or Ben-Hinnom Valley; it will be called Slaughter Valley.
Por tanto he aquí que vienen días, dijo Jehová, que este lugar no se llamará más Tofet, y valle de Ben-hinnón, mas valle de la matanza.
7 In this place I will ruin the plans of [you people who live in] Jerusalem and in [other places in] Judah. I will allow your enemies who want to kill you to kill [many of] you with their swords. [Then] I will allow your corpses to remain on the ground to be food for vultures and wild animals.
Y desvaneceré el consejo de Judá y de Jerusalem en este lugar, y hacerles he que caigan a cuchillo delante de sus enemigos, y en las manos de los que buscan sus almas; y daré sus cuerpos para comida de las aves del cielo, y de las bestias de la tierra.
8 I will [completely destroy] Jerusalem and cause it to become a heap of ruins that people will despise. All the people who pass by will be appalled, and they will be shocked when they see that the city has been destroyed.
Y pondré a esta ciudad por espanto y silbo: todo aquel que pasare por ella se maravillará, y silbará sobre todas sus plagas.
9 I will enable your enemies who want to kill you to surround the city for a long time. [Then the food will be all gone, and you people will be extremely hungry, with the result that] you people in the city will eat the flesh of your own children and your neighbors’ children.’
Y hacerles he comer la carne de sus hijos, y la carne de sus hijas; y cada uno comerá la carne de su amigo en el cerco y en la angostura con que los estrecharán sus enemigos, y los que buscan sus almas.
10 [Jeremiah, after you tell that to them], while the people who are with you are watching, smash the jar [that you brought].
Y quebrarás el barril delante de los ojos de los varones que van contigo;
11 Then say to them, ‘This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Just like this jar has been smashed and cannot be repaired, I will smash this city of Jerusalem and other places in Judah. You will bury some of your corpses here in this dump, until there is no more space to bury any more corpses.
Y decirles has: Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: Así quebrantaré a este pueblo, y a esta ciudad, como quien quiebra un vaso de barro, que no se puede más restaurar; y en Tofet se enterrarán, porque no habrá otro lugar para enterrar.
12 That is what I will do to this city and to you people who live here. I will cause this city to be desecrated, like [King Josiah caused Topheth to be] a place that was unfit for people to worship me there.
Así haré a este lugar, dice Jehová, y a sus moradores, poniendo esta ciudad como Tofet.
13 The houses in Jerusalem and the palaces of the kings of Judah will be desecrated like this place will be. All the houses where you burned incense on the rooftops to honor the stars [that you worshiped], and where you poured out wine [to be an offering] to your gods, will become (desecrated/unacceptable places for people to worship me).”’”
Y las casas de Jerusalem, y las casas de los reyes de Judá serán como el lugar de Tofet, inmundas, por todas las casas sobre cuyos tejados ofrecieron perfumes a todo el ejército del cielo, y vertieron derramaduras a dioses ajenos.
14 Then I returned from the garbage dump where Yahweh had sent me to tell them that message. Then I stood in the courtyard of Yahweh’s temple and said this to all the people [who were there]:
Y volvió Jeremías de Tofet, donde le envió Jehová a profetizar; y paróse en el patio de la casa de Jehová, y dijo a todo el pueblo:
15 “This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: ‘I will cause there to be a disaster in this city and in the villages around it like I promised, because you people have stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said to you.’”
Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que yo traigo sobre esta ciudad, y sobre todas sus ciudades todo el mal que hablé contra ella; porque endurecieron su cerviz, para no oír mis palabras.
