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 esposo repudia a su esposa, y ella se va de él y se une a otro esposo, ¿regresará el primero a ella? ¿No quedará esa tierra completamente contaminada? Pero tú eres una prostituta que tienes muchos amantes, como un árabe en el desierto. Sin embargo, regresa a Mí, dice Yavé.
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 hacia las alturas y mira en cuál lugar no se acostaron contigo. Te sientas en los caminos a la disposición de ellos, como un árabe en el desierto. Con tu prostitución y tu perversidad contaminaste la tierra.
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 tanto, las lluvias fueron retenidas, no hubo lluvias tardías. Sin embargo, tuviste el descaro de prostituta. Te negaste a avergonzarte.
4 Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
¿Ahora mismo no me llamas: Padre mío? ¿Tú eres el Amigo de mi juventud?
5 So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
¿Estará Él airado para siempre? ¿Eternamente estará airado? Ciertamente tú hablaste así, pero hiciste cuantas cosas perversas pudiste.
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].
En los días del rey Josías Yavé me dijo: ¿Viste lo que hace la apóstata Israel? Ella sube a toda montaña alta y fornica debajo de todo árbol frondoso.
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 hacer todo esto, me dije: Regresará a Mí, pero no regresó. Y Judá, su pérfida hermana,
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].
vio que Yo despedí a la apóstata Israel por sus adulterios y que le di carta de divorcio. Y aun así, Judá, su pérfida hermana, no tuvo temor. También ella fue y se prostituyó.
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.
Sucedió que a causa de que su prostitución le era liviana, se prostituyó con la piedra y con el leño, y profanó la tierra.
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.”
Ni a pesar de todo esto su hermana Judá regresó a Mí con corazón sincero, sino fingidamente, dice Yavé.
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.
Yavé me dijo: La infiel Israel se mostró más justa que la pérfida Judá.
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.
Vé, proclama estas palabras hacia el norte: ¡Regresa, oh apóstata Israel! dice Yavé. No derramaré mi ira sobre ustedes, porque soy misericordioso, dice Yavé. No estaré airado 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.
Solo reconoce tu iniquidad, porque contra Yavé tu ʼElohim cometiste transgresión. Abriste tus favores a extraños debajo de todo árbol frondoso y no obedeciste mi voz, dice Yavé.
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].
Regresen, oh hijos rebeldes, dice Yavé, porque Yo soy su Dueño. Los tomaré, uno de cada ciudad y dos de cada familia, y los traeré a Sion.
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].
Les daré pastores según mi corazón, que los pastoreen con conocimiento y entendimiento.
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 se multipliquen e incrementen en la tierra, en aquellos días, dice Yavé, ya no hablarán del Arca del Pacto de Yavé, ni les llegará al pensamiento, ni se acordarán más de ella, ni les hará falta, 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 Jerusalén será llamada Trono de Yavé. Serán reunidas todas las naciones en ella, pues el Nombre de Yavé estará en Jerusalén. Ya no andarán en la terquedad de su perverso 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 aquellos días la Casa de Judá andará con la Casa de Israel. Llegarán juntas desde la tierra del norte a la tierra que di en posesión a sus antepasados.
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.
Entonces me dije: ¿Cómo los pondré a ustedes entre mis hijos para darles la tierra agradable, la más hermosa heredad de las naciones? Y dije: Me llamarás Padre mío y no te apartarás de Mí.
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 infiel abandona a su esposo, así ustedes me trataron infielmente, oh Casa de Israel, dice Yavé.
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.
El llanto suplicante de los hijos de Israel fue oído sobre las altas montañas, porque torcieron su camino. Se olvidaron de Yavé su ʼElohim.
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.
Regresen, oh hijos infieles, sanaré sus infidelidades. ¡Aquí estamos! Venimos a Ti, porque Tú, oh Yavé, eres nuestro ʼElohim.
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.
Ciertamente las colinas y el bullicio en las montañas fueron un engaño. Ciertamente en Yavé nuestro ʼElohim está la salvación de Israel.
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.
Lo vergonzoso consumió el esfuerzo de nuestros antepasados desde nuestra juventud: sus rebaños y sus manadas de ganado vacuno, 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.”
Estamos tendidos en nuestra vergüenza. Nuestra afrenta nos cubre porque pecamos contra Yavé nuestro ʼElohim. Nosotros y nuestros antepasados desde nuestra juventud hasta hoy no obedecimos la voz de Yavé nuestro ʼElohim.
