Jeremiah 2
1 Yahweh gave me another message
Y fue a mí palabra de Jehová, diciendo:
2 [to proclaim to everyone in Jerusalem. He said that I should tell them this] [MET]: “I, Yahweh, remember that you very much wanted to please me [long ago]. [You tried to please me like] a bride [tries to please her husband]; You loved me, and you followed me through the desert [DOU].
Vé, y clama en los oídos de Jerusalem, diciendo: Jehová dice así: Heme acordado de ti, de la misericordia de tu mocedad, del amor de tu desposorio, cuando andabas tras mí en el desierto, en tierra no sembrada.
3 [At that time you] Israelis (were set apart/belonged only) to me; [you belonged to me like] the first part of the harvests belong to me [MET]. I promised to punish all those who harmed you, my people, and truly I did send disasters on them. [That happened because I], Yahweh, said [that it would happen].”
Santidad era entonces Israel a Jehová, primicias de sus nuevos frutos: todos los que le comen, pecarán: mal vendrá sobre ellos, dice Jehová.
4 So, you [descendants of] [MTY] Jacob, all you people of [MTY] Israel,
Oíd palabra de Jehová, casa de Jacob, y todas las familias de la casa de Israel.
5 listen to what Yahweh says: “(What sin did I commit [RHQ] that caused your ancestors to turn far away from me?/Though your ancestors found no fault in me, they turned far away from me.) They worshiped worthless idols, and they themselves became worthless.
Jehová dijo así: ¿Qué maldad hallaron en mí vuestros padres, que se alejaron de mí, y se fueron tras la vanidad, y tornáronse vanos?
6 They did not say, ‘Yahweh brought us [safely] out of Egypt, and he led us through a desert where there were a lot of pits; he led us where there was no water and where it was very dangerous, through a land where no one lives, and no one even travels. (So where is Yahweh now?/So he should be helping us now!) [RHQ]’
Y no dijeron: ¿Dónde está Jehová: el que nos hizo subir de tierra de Egipto: el que nos hizo andar por el desierto; por una tierra desierta y despoblada, por una tierra seca y de sombra de muerte, por una tierra por la cual no pasó varón, ni hombre habitó allí?
7 And when I brought you into a very fertile land, in order that you could enjoy [all] the fruit and [other] good things that you would harvest, you caused the land that I promised to give to you to be unfit for me and to become disgusting/detestable to me.
Y os metí en tierra del Carmelo, para que comieseis su fruto y su bien; y entrasteis, y contaminasteis mi tierra, y mi heredad hicisteis abominable.
8 [Your] priests also did not say, ‘(Where is Yahweh now?/Yahweh should be helping us now!)’ [RHQ] Those who teach/explain my laws do not [want to] know me, and [your] leaders have rebelled against me. [Your] prophets gave you messages from [their god] Baal, and they worship worthless idols.”
Los sacerdotes no dijeron: ¿Dónde está Jehová? Y los que tenían la ley no me conocieron, y los pastores se rebelaron contra mí, y los profetas profetizaron en Baal, y caminaron tras lo que no aprovecha.
9 “So, I will accuse you in court. [In future years], I will say what your children and your grandchildren have done that is wrong. [That will happen because I], Yahweh, have said [that it will happen].
Por tanto entraré aun en juicio con vosotros, dijo Jehová, y con los hijos de vuestros hijos pleitearé.
10 If you go [west] to the island of Cyprus, or if you go [east] to Kedar [land, ] and if you ask people in those places, they will tell you that no people [from their countries] have ever done the wicked things that you people have done!
Porque pasád a las islas de Quitim, y mirád, y enviád a Cedar, y considerád con diligencia; y mirád si se ha hecho cosa semejante a esta.
11 The people of no other nation have ever [RHQ] abandoned their gods that they thought were glorious and started to worship gods that are not really gods, but you people have abandoned me, your glorious God, and are worshiping gods that are useless.
¿Si alguna nación ha mudado dioses? aunque ellos no son dioses; y mi pueblo ha trocado su gloria por lo que no aprovecha.
12 [It is as though everything in] the sky is surprised and dismayed/appalled [about what you have done]; [it is as though] they tremble because they are very horrified.
Asoláos, cielos, sobre esto, y alborotáos: Asoláos en gran manera, dijo Jehová.
13 [You], my people, have done two evil things: You have rejected me, the one who is [like] [MET] a fountain [where you can obtain] fresh water, and you [are worshiping gods that are like] [MET] pits in the ground that are cracked and which are not able to hold any water.
Porque dos males ha hecho mi pueblo: dejáronme a mí, fuente de agua viva, por cavar para sí cisternas, cisternas rotas, que no detienen aguas.
14 You Israeli people, you were certainly not [RHQ] slaves when you were born; you were captured [by your enemies].
¿Es Israel siervo? ¿ es esclavo? ¿por qué ha sido dado en presa?
15 [Your enemies] [MET] roared [like] lions, and they destroyed your land. [Now] your towns have been burned, and no one lives in them.
Los cachorros de los leones bramaron sobre él, dieron su voz; y pusieron su tierra en soledad, desiertas sus ciudades sin morador.
16 Soldiers from Memphis and Tahpenes, [cities in Egypt], have [defeated you] [and] shaved your heads [to show that you are their slaves].
Aun los hijos de Nof y de Tafnes te quebrantarán la mollera.
17 But it is [RHQ] because you abandoned [me], Yahweh, that these disasters have happened to you.
¿No te hará esto tu dejar a Jehová tu Dios, cuando te hacía andar por camino?
18 So (why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Egypt?/it certainly will not help you to make an alliance with the rulers of Egypt) [RHQ]. Why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Assyria who live near the [Euphrates] River?
Ahora pues, ¿qué tienes tú en el camino de Egipto, para que bebas agua del Nilo? ¿y qué tienes tú en el camino de Asiria, para que bebas agua del río?
19 [It is because] you have been [very] wicked that I [PRS] will punish you. It is because you have turned away from me that I [PRS] will condemn you. [When I do that], you will realize that painful and evil [DOU] things will happen to you because you have forsaken [me], Yahweh, your God, and you no [longer] revere me. [That will certainly happen because] I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, have said it.
Tu maldad te castigará, y tu apartamiento te acusará. Sabe pues, y ve cuán malo y amargo es tu dejar a Jehová tu Dios, y faltar mi temor en ti, dijo el Señor Jehová de los ejércitos.
20 Long ago, you stopped obeying [me] [MET], and you would not allow [me] to lead you [MET]; you refused to worship [me]. Instead, you worship idols that are under trees on the top of every hill, and your young women have sex with [EUP] [men at those places].
Porque desde muy atrás he quebrado tu yugo, rompido tus ataduras; y dijiste: No serviré. Con todo eso, sobre todo collado alto, y debajo de todo árbol sombrío tú corrías, o! ramera.
21 [It is as though] [MET] you were a grapevine that I planted when it was a cutting from a very good vine. So now it is disgusting that [RHQ] you have become [like] a rotten worthless vine.
Yo pues te planté de buen vidueño, toda ella simiente de verdad, ¿cómo pues te me has tornado sarmientos de vid extraña?
22 Your guilt from your sins is like [MET] very bad stains on a cloth, and you cannot get rid of those stains even by using very strong soap. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.
Aunque te laves con salitre, y amontones jabón sobre ti, tu pecado está sellado delante de mí, dijo el Señor Jehová.
23 You say that you have not sinned. You say ‘We have not become unacceptable to God; we have not worshiped Baal.’ But think about [the disgusting things that you do very eagerly] in [Hinnom] Valley [outside Jerusalem]. You are like desperate female camels, running here and there [to find male camels to have sex with].
¿Cómo dices: No soy inmunda, nunca anduve tras los Baales? Mira tu camino en el valle: conoce lo que has hecho, dromedaria ligera que frecuenta sus carreras:
24 You are [like] wild female donkeys in the desert. They sniff the air to find where the male donkeys are, and no one can [RHQ] restrain them. The male donkeys that want them do not become tired searching for them, because at mating time they find them [easily].
Asna montés acostumbrada al desierto, que respira como quiere: ¿de su ocasión quién la detendrá? todos los que la buscaren no se cansarán: hallarla han en su mes.
25 You constantly run here and there [to find idols to worship], with the result that your sandals are worn out, and your throats have become dry. [I told you to stop doing that], but you said, ‘We cannot stop, because we love foreign gods, and we must worship them.’”
Defiende tus pies de andar descalzos, y tu garganta de la sed; y dijiste: Háse perdido la esperanza: en ninguna manera; porque he amado extraños, y tras ellos tengo de ir.
26 [Yahweh says this]: “A robber is disgraced when he is caught. And all of you, including your kings and priests and prophets, are similarly disgraced.
Como se avergüenza el ladrón cuando es tomado, así se avergonzaron la casa de Israel; ellos, sus reyes, sus príncipes, sus sacerdotes, y sus profetas,
27 You say to [a piece of] wood [that is carved to become a sacred idol], ‘You are our father!’ And you say to a stone [that you have set up], ‘You are our mother!’ You have rejected [IDM] me, but when you experience troubles, you cry out to me to rescue you.
Diciendo al leño: Mi padre eres tú; y a la piedra: Tú me has engendrado. Que me volvieron la cerviz; y no el rostro; y en el tiempo de su trabajo, dicen: Levántate, y líbranos.
28 Why do you not [RHQ] cry out to the gods that you made? You have as many gods as you have cities [and towns] in Judah. So why do you not plead with them to rescue you when you experience disasters?
¿Y dónde están tus dioses, que hiciste para ti? Levántense, a ver si te podrán librar en el tiempo de tu aflicción; porque al número de tus ciudades, o! Judá, fueron tus dioses.
29 You complain that it was wrong for me [not to have rescued you], but you have all rebelled against me.
¿Por qué altercáis conmigo? Todos vosotros os rebelasteis contra mí, dijo Jehová.
30 I punished some of you, but you did not learn anything from my doing that. You have killed many of the prophets that I [sent to you], like [SIM] fierce lions kill [other animals].
Por demás he azotado vuestros hijos, no han recibido castigo: espada tragó vuestros profetas como león destrozador.
31 You people of Israel, pay attention to what I say. I have certainly [RHQ] never [abandoned you] in a desert; I have never [left you] in a land full of darkness. So, why do you, my people, say ‘We are free from God’s control; we will not return to [worship] God any more’?
O! generación, ved vosotros la palabra de Jehová: ¿He sido yo soledad a Israel, o tierra de tinieblas, que han dicho mi pueblo: Señores somos; ni nunca más vendremos a ti?
32 A young woman would certainly never [RHQ] forget [to wear] her jewelry, and a bride would never [RHQ] forget to wear her wedding dress, but you my people have forgotten me for many years.
¿Olvídase la virgen de su atavío, o la desposada de sus sartales? y mi pueblo se han olvidado de mí por días que no tienen número.
33 You know how to easily find [gods from other countries] whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute [can find men to sleep with].
¿Para qué abonas tu camino para hallar amor? pues aun a las maldades enseñaste tus caminos.
34 Although you have on your clothes the blood of poor people whom you have murdered, people who (were innocent/had not done things that are wrong),
Aun en tus faldas se hallaron las sangres de las almas de los pobres, de los inocentes. No los hallaste minando casas, mas por todas estas cosas.
35 you say ‘We have not done anything that is wrong; so surely [Yahweh] is not angry with us.’ But I will punish [MTY] you [severely] for saying ‘We have not sinned.’
Y dices: Porque soy inocente, cierto su ira se apartó de mí. He aquí, yo entraré en juicio contigo, porque dijiste: No pequé.
36 Previously you requested [the army of] Assyria to help you, but they were not able to help you. Now you have requested [the army of] Egypt to help you, but they will not be able to help you, either.
¿Para qué discurres tanto, mudando tus caminos? También serás avergonzada de Egipto, como fuiste avergonzada de Asiria.
37 They will capture you, and you will be [their prisoners] [MTY], led to Egypt, [very ashamed] with your hands on your heads. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have rejected those [nations] that you are relying on, and they will not be able to help you at all.”
También de este saldrás con tus manos sobre tu cabeza; porque Jehová desechó tus confianzas, ni en ellas tendrás buen suceso.
