Jeremiah 3
1 “[Moses wrote that] if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again [to be his wife], because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more [idols than] prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, [why should I accept you if] you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
“Dicen: “Si un hombre abandona a su mujer, y ella se aleja de él y pasa a ser de otro hombre, ¿debe volver a ella? ¿No estaría esa tierra muy contaminada? Pero tú has jugado a la prostitución con muchos amantes; sin embargo, vuelve otra vez a mí”, dice el Señor.
2 “Look up at the barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] [idols that you have worshiped]. [It is as though] they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. [It is as though] you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting [to attack and steal things from] those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the [entire] land to become unacceptable to me.
“¡Levanta tus ojos a las alturas desnudas y mira! ¿Dónde no te has acostado? Te has sentado a esperarlos junto al camino, como un árabe en el desierto. Has contaminado la tierra con tu prostitución y con tu maldad.
3 That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed [for what they have done].
Por eso las lluvias han sido retenidas y no ha habido lluvia tardía; sin embargo, has tenido una frente de prostituta y no quisiste avergonzarte.
4 Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
¿No me gritarás desde ahora: ‘Padre mío, tú eres el guía de mi juventud’?
5 So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
“‘¿Conservará su ira para siempre? ¿Lo mantendrá hasta el final?’ He aquí que tú has hablado y has hecho cosas malas, y te has salido con la tuya”.
6 [One day] when Josiah was the king of Judah, Yahweh said to me, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have turned away from me, like a woman who has abandoned her husband and sleeps with other men. They have gone up on every hilltop and under every big tree and worshiped idols there [MET].
Además, el Señor me dijo en los días del rey Josías: “¿Has visto lo que ha hecho el rebelde Israel? Se ha subido a todo monte alto y a todo árbol verde, y se ha prostituido allí.
7 I thought that they would return to me, so I said to them, ‘Come back to me!’ But they refused. So I sent them away [to other countries, like a man] writes a note saying that he is divorcing his wife and then sends his wife away because she has committed adultery [MET].
Después de haber hecho todas estas cosas, dije: ‘Volverá a mí’; pero no volvió, y su hermana traidora, Judá, lo vio.
8 The people of Judah saw what I did to them. But they are just like the people of Israel. They are not afraid [of what I will do to them]. They also [have turned away from me and are worshiping idols like] women who abandon their husbands and go to other men [MET].
Vi que cuando, por esta misma causa, la rebelde Israel había cometido adulterio, yo la había repudiado y le había dado un certificado de divorcio, pero la traicionera Judá, su hermana, no tuvo miedo, sino que también fue y se hizo la prostituta.
9 They thought that worshiping idols did not matter to me, so they have made the [entire] land unacceptable to me by worshiping idols of wood and stone.
Por haber tomado a la ligera su prostitución, la tierra fue contaminada, y ella cometió adulterio con piedras y con madera.
10 The people of Judah have pretended to return to me, but they have not really done that. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Pero por todo esto su hermana traidora, Judá, no ha vuelto a mí con todo su corazón, sino sólo en apariencia”, dice el Señor.
11 Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
El Señor me dijo: “El Israel renegado se ha mostrado más justo que el Judá traidor.
12 So go and tell this to the people of Israel: ‘Yahweh says this to you Israeli people who have turned away from him: I am merciful. I will not continue to be angry with you forever. So return to me.
Ve y proclama estas palabras hacia el norte, y di: “Vuelve, Israel reincidente”, dice el Señor; “No miraré con ira hacia ti, porque soy misericordioso”, dice el Señor. No me enojaré para siempre.
13 But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
Sólo reconoce tu iniquidad, que te has rebelado contra el Señor, tu Dios, y has esparcido tus caminos a los extraños debajo de todo árbol verde, y no has obedecido mi voz”, dice el Señor.
14 But you belong to me. So I will take you, one from [each] city and two from [each] clan, and bring you [back] to Jerusalem [from the countries to which you were exiled].
“Volved, hijos descarriados — dice Yahvé —, porque yo soy un esposo para vosotros. Tomaré a uno de ustedes de una ciudad, y a dos de una familia, y los llevaré a Sión.
15 [If you do that], I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you [well] because they will know and understand [what pleases me].
Os daré pastores según mi corazón, que os alimentarán con conocimiento y comprensión.
16 And when you become very numerous [DOU] in your land, you will not need to talk about the Sacred Chest that contained the Ten Commandments. You will not think about it, and you will not want to make a new one.
Sucederá que cuando os multipliquéis y crezcáis en la tierra en aquellos días — dice el Señor — ya no dirán: “¡El arca de la alianza de Yahvé! No les vendrá a la mente. No la recordarán. No la echarán de menos, ni se hará otra.
17 At that time people will say, “Jerusalem is [the place where] Yahweh’s throne is.” [People from] all nations will come there to worship me. And they will no longer stubbornly do the evil things that they desire.
En aquel tiempo llamarán a Jerusalén ‘Trono de Yahvé’; y todas las naciones se reunirán en ella, en el nombre de Yahvé, en Jerusalén. Ya no caminarán según la terquedad de su malvado corazón.
18 At that time you people [MTY] of Israel and the people of Judah will return from [being (exiled/forced to live) in] lands to the northeast. You will return to the land that I gave to your ancestors to belong to them [forever].
En esos días la casa de Judá caminará con la casa de Israel, y vendrán juntos desde la tierra del norte a la tierra que di en herencia a vuestros padres.
19 You people of Israel, I wanted to accept you to be my children. I wanted to give you [this] delightful land. It is a land more desirable/pleasant than the land of any other nation! I wanted you to call me ‘father’, and I wanted you to never turn away from me.
“Pero yo dije: ‘¡Cómo quiero ponerte entre los niños y darte una tierra agradable, una buena herencia de los ejércitos de las naciones!
20 But you have abandoned me like wives who have abandoned their husbands.’” [That is what] Yahweh said, and [I told it] to the people of Israel.
“Ciertamente, como la esposa se aparta a traición de su marido, así me habéis tratado a traición, casa de Israel”, dice el Señor.
21 People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading [for God to be merciful to them]. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.
Se oye una voz en las alturas, el llanto y las súplicas de los hijos de Israel; porque han pervertido su camino, se han olvidado de Yahvé, su Dios.
22 Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! [If you do that], I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” [The people will reply], “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, our God.
Volved, hijos descarriados, y yo sanaré vuestro descarrío. “He aquí que hemos acudido a ti, porque tú eres Yahvé, nuestro Dios.
23 We did not get any help from [the idols that we worshiped on] the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.
En verdad, el auxilio de las colinas, el alboroto de los montes, es vano. En verdad la salvación de Israel está en Yahvé nuestro Dios.
24 From the time when we were young, the shameful [god Baal] has taken away [from us] everything that our ancestors worked hard to acquire. He has taken away their flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle], their sons and their daughters.
Pero la cosa vergonzosa ha devorado el trabajo de nuestros padres desde nuestra juventud, sus rebaños y sus manadas, sus hijos y sus hijas.
25 So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed [DOU], because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God, and we have never obeyed him.”
Acostémonos en nuestra vergüenza, y que nuestra confusión nos cubra; porque hemos pecado contra Yahvé nuestro Dios, nosotros y nuestros padres, desde nuestra juventud hasta hoy. No hemos obedecido la voz de Yahvé nuestro Dios”.
