Jeremiah 29
1 After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.
Estas son las palabras de la carta que el profeta Jeremías envió desde Jerusalén a los hombres responsables entre los que habían sido desterrados, a los sacerdotes y profetas, y al resto de las personas a quienes Nabucodonosor había tomado prisioneros de Jerusalén a Babilonia.
Después de Jeconías, el rey y la reina madre y los eunucos y los gobernantes de Judá y Jerusalén y los artesanos y los herreros se habían ido de Jerusalén;
3 [I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:
Por la mano de Elasa, hijo de Safán, y Gemarías, hijo de Hilcías. a quienes Sedequías, rey de Judá, envió a Babilonia, a Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia diciendo:
4 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:
Esto es lo que el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, ha dicho a todos aquellos a quienes he llevado prisioneros de Jerusalén a Babilonia:
5 “Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.
Sigan construyendo casas y viviendo en ellas, y plantando jardines y usando el fruto de ellas;
6 Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.
Tomen esposas y tengan hijos e hijas, y tomen esposas para sus hijos, y den a sus hijas esposos, para que tengan hijos e hijas; y aumentarán en número allí y no disminuirá.
7 Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”
Y procuren el bienestar de la tierra a la que los he llevado prisioneros, y oren al Señor por ella, porque en su paz tendrán paz.
8 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,
Porque esto es lo que el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, ha dicho: No se dejen engañar por los profetas que están entre ustedes y los adivinos, y no presten atención a sus sueños que puedan tener;
9 because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”
Porque les están diciendo lo que es falso en mi nombre: No los he enviado, dice el Señor.
10 This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].
Porque esto es lo que ha dicho el Señor: Cuando se acaben los setenta años para Babilonia, tendré compasión de ustedes y haré realidad mi buen propósito para ustedes, haciendo que regresen a este lugar.
11 I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.
Porque soy consciente de mis pensamientos sobre ustedes, dice el Señor, pensamientos de paz y no de maldad, para darles esperanza y un futuro.
12 At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.
Y ustedes me llamarán y vendrán a mí en oración, y yo les oiré.
13 If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].
Y me estarán buscando y yo estaré allí, cuando me hayan buscado con todo su corazón.
14 I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”
Estaré cerca de ustedes nuevamente, dice el Señor, y su destino cambiará, y los reuniré de todas las naciones y de todos los lugares donde los he enviado, dice el Señor; y los llevaré de vuelta al lugar desde donde Los desterré.
15 [Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.
Porque han dicho: El Señor nos ha dado profetas en Babilonia.
16 But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
Porque esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho sobre el rey que está sentado en el trono del reino de David, y sobre todas las personas que viven en esta ciudad, sus compatriotas que no han salido con ustedes como prisioneros;
17 The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.
Esto es lo que ha dicho el Señor de los ejércitos: Mira, les enviaré la espada y hambre, y enfermedades, y los haré como higos podridos, que no sirven de nada para comer, de tan podridos que están.
18 I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].
Iré tras ellos, los perseguiré con la espada y con hambre y con enfermedades, y los convertiré en una causa de terror para todos los reinos de la tierra, para ser una maldición y un espanto y burla y un nombre de vergüenza entre todas las naciones a las que los he enviado.
19 [That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.
Porque no han escuchado mis palabras, dice el Señor, cuando les envié a mis siervos los profetas, que se levantaran temprano y los envíe; Pero no escucharon, dice el Señor.
20 [Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
Y ahora, escuchan la palabra del Señor, todos los que envié prisioneros de Jerusalén a Babilonia.
21 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
Esto es lo que el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, ha dicho sobre Acab, el hijo de Colaias, y sobre Sedequías, el hijo de Maasias, que te dicen lo que es falso en mi nombre: Los entregaré en manos de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y él los matará ante tus ojos.
22 Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’
Y su destino será usado como una maldición por todos los prisioneros de Judá que están en Babilonia, quienes dirán: “Que el Señor te haga como Sedequías y como Acab, quienes fueron quemados en el fuego por el rey de Babilonia”.
23 They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”
Porque han hecho maldades en Israel, y han tomado a las esposas de sus vecinos, y en mi nombre han dicho palabras falsas, que no les di órdenes de decir; y yo mismo soy testigo, dice el Señor.
24 [Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:
Sobre Semaías de Nehelam.
25 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:
Semaías de Nehelam envió una carta en su nombre a Sofonías, el hijo del sacerdote Maasias, diciendo:
26 [Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].
El Señor te ha hecho sacerdote en lugar del sacerdote Joiada, para ser un supervisor en la casa del Señor para cada hombre que está fuera de su cabeza y está actuando como un profeta, para poner a tales hombres en la cárcel y en cadenas.
27 So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?
Entonces, ¿por qué no has protestado contra Jeremías de Anatot, quien te está actuando como profeta?
28 He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”
Porque nos ha enviado a Babilonia, diciendo: El tiempo será largo, ve construyendo casas y viviendo en ellas, y plantando jardines y usando el fruto de ellas.
29 [But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.
Y el sacerdote Sofonías leyó y dejó en claro al profeta Jeremías lo que se decía en la carta.
30 Then Yahweh gave me this message:
Entonces la palabra del Señor vino al profeta Jeremías, diciendo:
31 “Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
Manda decir a todos los que han sido desterrados, diciendo: Esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho sobre Semaías de Nehelam: Porque Semaías a estado actuando como un profeta para ustedes, y yo no lo envié, y les ha hecho poner su fe en lo que es falso;
32 So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”
Por esto ha dicho el Señor: Ciertamente enviaré castigo a Semaías y a su descendencia; ni un hombre de su familia tendrá un lugar entre este pueblo, y él no verá el bien que voy a hacer a mi pueblo, dice el Señor, porque ha dicho palabras contra el Señor.
