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 aparta a su esposa y ella se aparta de él y se va con otro hombre, ¿volverá a ella? ¿Acaso esa tierra no será profanada? pero aunque has estado actuando como una mujer ramera con varios amantes, ¿volverás ahora 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 colinas abiertas, y mira; ¿A dónde no te han llevado tus amantes? Junto a los caminos te sentabas para ellos como un árabe en el desierto; has dejado la tierra sucia con tus fornicaciones y 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 lo tanto, las lluvias han sido retenidas, y no ha habido lluvia de primavera; Aún tu frente es la frente de una mujer ramera, 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 harás, a partir de este momento, tu oración llorando; Mi padre, tú eres él guiador de mi juventud?
5 So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
¿Te enojarás para siempre? ¿Mantendrás tu ira hasta el final? Estas cosas has dicho, y has hecho el mal y has hecho tu voluntad.
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].
Y el Señor me dijo en los días del rey Josías: ¿Has visto lo que ha hecho Israel, apartándose de mí? Ella ha subido en cada montaña alta y debajo de cada árbol ramificado, actuando como una mujer prostituta 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].
Y dije: Después de que ella haya hecho todas estas cosas, volverá a mí; pero ella no lo hizo. Y su falsa hermana 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].
Y aunque vio que, como Israel, que se había apartado de mí, no me lo había dicho, la había repudiado le había dado una declaración por escrito de divorcio, pero Judá, su falsa hermana, no tuvo temor, sino que fue e hizo lo mismo 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.
De modo que, a pesar de todo su comportamiento liviano de prostituirse, la tierra se volvió inmunda y ella fue infiel, entregándose a piedras y árboles.
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 falsa hermana Judá no ha vuelto a mí con todo su corazón, sino con engaño, 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.
Y el Señor me dijo: Israel en su rechazo es más recto que la infiel 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.
Ve y difunde estas palabras al norte y di: “Vuelve, Israel, aunque te hayas alejado de mí, dice el Señor; Mi rostro no estará contra ti con ira; porque estoy lleno de misericordia, dice el Señor, no me enfadaré 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.
Sé consciente de tu pecado, el mal que has hecho contra el Señor tu Dios; Has ido con hombres extranjeros debajo de cada árbol ramificado, sin prestar atención a 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].
Vuelve, oh hijos rebeldes, dice el Señor; porque soy un marido para ti, y te llevaré, uno de un pueblo y dos de una familia, y te haré venir 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].
Y te daré pastores, que agradará a mi corazón, que te darán tu alimento con conocimiento y sabiduría.
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.
Y sucederá que cuandose multipliquen y crezcan en la tierra, en aquellos días, dice el Señor, que ya no dirán: El cofre del pacto del Señor; no les llegará a la mente, no tendrán ningún recuerdo de ello, o serán conscientes de su pérdida, y no se volverá a hacer.
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 ese momento, Jerusalén será nombrada la sede del reino del Señor; y todas las naciones se unirán a ella, al nombre del Señor, a Jerusalén; y ya no serán sus pasos guiados por los propósitos de sus corazones malvados.
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 familia de Judá irá con la familia de Israel, y se unirán de la tierra del norte a la tierra que yo les di a mis padres por herencia.
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 voy a ponerte entre los niños y darte una tierra deseada, una herencia de gloria entre los ejércitos de las naciones? Y yo dije: Tú me tienes que decir, padre mío; Y no te apartes 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.
En verdad, como esposa es infiel para su marido, así has sido infiel para mí, oh 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.
Una voz está sonando en las colinas abiertas, el llanto y las oraciones de los hijos de Israel; porque su camino está torcido, no han tenido en mente al Señor, 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.
Regresen, hijos que han sido rebeldes, y yo quitaré tu deseo de vagar. Mira, hemos venido a ti, porque tú eres el Señor, 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.
Ciertamente, las colinas y el ruido de un ejército en las montañas son una falsa esperanza, ciertamente, en el Señor nuestro Dios 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.
Pero el Baal ha quitado toda la obra de nuestros padres desde nuestros primeros días; sus rebaños y sus ganado, 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 con nuestra vergüenza, cubriéndonos con nuestra humillación; porque hemos sido pecadores contra el Señor nuestro Dios, nosotros y nuestros padres, desde nuestra juventud hasta el día de hoy; y no hemos oído a la voz del Señor nuestro Dios.
