Jeremiah 31
1 Yahweh says that at that time, he will be the God [who is worshiped by] all the clans in Israel, and they will be his people.
En aquel tiempo, dice Yavé, Yo seré ʼElohim de todas las tribus de Israel, y ellas serán mi pueblo.
2 This is what Yahweh says: “Those [people] who remained alive and were not killed by [their enemies’] swords were blessed [by me even] in the desert; I enabled them to have peace.
Yavé dice: Cuando Israel iba en busca de reposo, el pueblo que escapó de la espada halló gracia en el desierto.
3 Long ago [I, ] Yahweh, said to [your ancestors, ] the Israeli people, ‘I have loved you and I will continue to love you forever. By faithfully loving you, I have brought you close to myself.’
Yavé se me apareció desde lejos y dijo: Con amor eterno te amé. Por tanto, te atraje a Mí con misericordia.
4 And [now I tell you], my Israeli people whom I love [MET], that I will cause you to be a nation again. You will [joyfully] dance as you play your tambourines.
Otra vez te edificaré, y quedarás edificada, oh virgen de Israel. Otra vez serás adornada con tus panderos y saldrás en alegres danzas.
5 Again you will plant your vineyards on the hills of Samaria, and you will eat the grapes [that grow there].
Otra vez plantarás viñas en las montañas de Samaria y los que las planten comerán el fruto.
6 There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria [MTY], ‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem to [worship] Yahweh, our God!'”
Porque vendrá un día cuando los centinelas clamarán en la región montañosa de Efraín: ¡Levántense, subamos a Sion, a Yavé nuestro ʼElohim!
7 And now Yahweh also says this: “Sing joyfully about [what I have done for] the people of Israel! Shout about [your nation, ] the greatest nation! Shout joyfully, praising me and saying, ‘Yahweh, rescue your people, the ones who are still alive!’
Porque Yavé dice: Regocíjense con alegría por Jacob. Den voces de júbilo por la cabeza de naciones. Proclamen, alaben y digan: Yavé salvó a su pueblo, el remanente de Israel.
8 Do that [because] I will bring them back from the northeast, from the most distant places on the earth. Among them will be blind people and lame people, women who are pregnant and women who are (having labor pains/about to give birth to babies). They will be a huge group of people!
Miren: Yo los devuelvo de la tierra del norte y los reuniré de los confines de la tierra. Entre ellos vendrán los ciegos, los cojos, la mujer embarazada y la que dio a luz. Regresarán acá en una gran compañía.
9 They will be crying as they return, and they will be praying [to me]. I will guide them along streams of water, on level paths where they will not stumble. [I will do this] because I am [like] a father to the Israeli people; [it is as though] Israel is my oldest son.”
Vendrán con llanto. Los guiaré por medio de súplica. Andarán por corrientes de aguas, por una vía llana y sin tropiezo. Porque Yo soy Padre para Israel, y Efraín es mi primogénito.
10 Yahweh says, “[You people in the] nations of the world, listen to this message from me. Then proclaim it to [people who live along] the coasts far away. I scattered my people, but I will gather them [again] and will take care of them like [SIM] a shepherd takes care of his sheep.
Oh naciones, escuchen la Palabra de Yavé, y anúncienla en las costas lejanas: El que dispersó a Israel lo reunirá y lo cuidará como el pastor cuida su rebaño.
11 I will buy [my] Israeli people back from those who [conquered them because] they were more powerful [than my people].
Porque Yavé rescató a Jacob. Lo redimió de uno más fuerte que él.
12 My people will return [to Jerusalem] and shout joyfully on the slopes of Zion Hill. They will rejoice about the things that I have abundantly given to them— grain and new wine and [olive] oil and young sheep and cattle. They themselves will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer be sad.
Vendrán con aclamaciones a la altura de Sion. Correrán hacia los bienes de Yavé: Al trigo, al vino, al aceite, a las crías del rebaño y a la manada de ganado vacuno. Su alma será como huerto bien regado, y nunca más tendrán dolor.
13 The young women will dance joyfully, and [all] the men, young ones and old ones, will join with them. I will cause them to rejoice instead of mourning; I will comfort them and cause them to be happy instead of being sad.
Entonces la doncella gozará danzando juntamente con los jóvenes y los ancianos, porque cambiaré su duelo en alegría. Los consolaré y los alegraré después de su dolor.
14 The priests will have plenty of things to eat and drink, and [all] my people will be filled with the good things that I give them. [That will certainly happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!”
Satisfaceré el alma del sacerdote con abundancia y mi pueblo será saciado con mi bondad, dice Yavé.
15 Yahweh [also] says this: “Women were weeping in Ramah [town on the border between Israel and Judah]; they were mourning and crying very loudly. [The women who were the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two grandsons of] Rachel [the wife of Jacob], were weeping about their children, and no one could comfort them because their children were [all] dead.
Yavé dice: Voz fue oída en Ramá: Lamento y amargo llanto. Es Raquel que lamenta por sus hijos. No quiere ser consolada, porque sus hijos perecieron.
16 [But now] this is what [I], Yahweh, say: ‘Do not cry [any more], because I will reward you [for the good things you have done for your children]. Your children will return from the land where their enemies [have taken them].
Yavé dice: Reprime tu voz del llanto y tus ojos de las lágrimas, porque tu trabajo será recompensado. Yavé dice: Regresarán de la tierra del enemigo.
17 [I], Yahweh, am telling you that there are things that you can confidently expect [me to do for you] in the future. Your children will return to their own land.’
Hay esperanza de un porvenir, dice Yavé: Los hijos regresarán a su propia tierra.
18 I have heard [the people of] Israel grieving very much [and saying to me], ‘You punished us severely, like [SIM] calves are beaten [by their owners to train them for pulling a plow]. [So] bring us back [to obey/worship you again], because we are ready to return to you, because you [alone] are Yahweh, our God.
Escuché atentamente el lamento de Efraín: Me azotaste. Fui castigado como novillo indómito. Conviérteme, y seré convertido, porque Tú eres Yavé mi ʼElohim.
19 We turned away [from you], but we repented; [after you] caused us to realize [that we were guilty]. We beat our chests to show that we were very ashamed [DOU] of the sins that we committed when we were young.’
Porque después que me desvié, me arrepentí. Y después de ser instruido, me di un golpe en el muslo. Me avergoncé y también me humillé a causa de la afrenta de mi juventud.
20 But [I], Yahweh, say this: The Israeli people certainly are [RHQ] still my dear children [DOU]. It is often necessary for me to threaten [to punish] them, but I still love them. That is why I have not forgotten them, and I will certainly act mercifully toward them.
¿No es Efraín mi hijo amado? ¿No es un niño en el cual me deleito? En verdad, tan a menudo como hablé contra él, ciertamente me acuerdo de él. Por tanto, mi corazón lo anhela. Ciertamente tendré misericordia de él, dice Yavé.
21 [You Israeli people, ] set up road signs; put up posts [along the roads] to mark the road on which you walked [when you were taken from Jerusalem]. My precious/beloved Israeli people, come back to your towns here.
Pon señales, montones altos de piedras. Dirige tu atención al camino principal, el camino por el cual fuiste. ¡Regresa, oh virgen de Israel, regresa a estas ciudades tuyas!
22 You people who have been like [MET] daughters who have forsaken their parents, how long will you continue to wander [away from me] [RHQ]? I, Yahweh, will cause something to happen on the earth that (is new/has not happened before): The women of Israel will be protecting their husbands as they travel [back here]!”
Oh hija descarriada, ¿hasta cuándo andarás errante? Porque Yavé creará algo nuevo en la tierra: La mujer rodeará al varón.
23 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, [‘I hope that] Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous [people will live]!’
Yavé de las huestes, ʼElohim de Israel, dice: Cuando Yo devuelva a tus cautivos, se volverá a decir en Judá y en sus poblados: ¡Yavé te bendiga, oh Morada de Justicia, oh Montaña de Santidad!
24 [The people of] Judah [who live in] the towns, including the farmers and the shepherds, will all live together [peacefully].
En Judá y en sus poblados vivirán juntos los labradores y los que apacientan rebaños.
25 I will enable weary people to rest, and enable people who are very exhausted to become strong again.”
Saciaré al alma afligida. Satisfaceré a toda alma debilitada.
26 I, [Jeremiah], woke up [after dreaming all those things], and I looked [around]. I had slept [very] delightfully!
Desperté y miré. Mi sueño me fue agradable.
27 [Then] Yahweh said [to me], “There will be a time when I will greatly increase [MET] the number of people and the number of livestock here in Israel and Judah.
Ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando sembraré la Casa de Israel y la Casa de Judá con semilla de hombres y de animales.
28 [Previously], I caused [their enemies to] remove the people from their land and to destroy their land and to cause them to experience many disasters [DOU]. But in the future, I will enable them to build houses and to plant crops [here in Israel again]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.
Como los vigilé para arrancar, derribar, destruir y afligir, así los vigilaré para edificar y plantar, dice Yavé.
29 [Previously the people often said, ] ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but it is the children’s teeth that ache.’ [They meant that it was not fair for them to be punished for their ancestors’ sins]. But [when I bring them back to their land], they will no longer say that.
En aquellos días ya no dirán: Los padres comieron las uvas agrias y los dientes de los hijos tienen la dentera,
30 But now all people will die because of the sins that they themselves have committed.
sino cada cual morirá por su propia maldad. Los dientes de todo hombre que coma las uvas agrias, tendrán la dentera.
31 [I], Yahweh, say this: ‘There will be a time when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and Judah.
Ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, en los cuales haré nuevo Pacto con la Casa de Israel y la Casa de Judá.
32 [This new agreement will] not be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors when I took them by their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I [loved them like] [MET] husbands love their wives.’
No como el Pacto que hice con sus antepasados el día cuando tomé su mano para sacarlos de la tierra de Egipto, porque ellos invalidaron mi Pacto, aunque fui Yo un esposo para ellos, dice Yavé.
33 This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Pero éste es el Pacto que haré con la Casa de Israel después de aquellos días, dice Yavé: Daré mi Ley en su mente y la escribiré en su corazón. Yo les seré ʼElohim y ellos me serán pueblo.
34 And it will not be [necessary] for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, “[You need to] know Yahweh,” because everyone, including unimportant people and very important people, will [already] know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.’”
Ya no enseñará cada uno a su prójimo, ni cada cual a su hermano. Ni dirá: ¡Conoce a Yavé! Porque todos me conocerán, desde el más pequeño de ellos hasta el más grande, dice Yavé. Porque perdonaré su maldad y ya no me acordaré de sus pecados,
35 Yahweh is the one who causes the sun to give light during the day, and who causes the moon and the stars to give light during the night. He stirs up the seas, with the result that waves roar. His name is the Commander of the armies of angels, and this is what he says:
dice Yavé, Quien da el sol para la luz del día, y las leyes de la luna y de las estrellas para la luz de la noche, Quien agita el mar y braman sus olas, Yavé de las huestes es su nombre:
36 “I will not reject my Israeli people any more than I will get rid of the laws [that control the universe].
Si estas leyes se apartan de Mí, dice Yavé, entonces también faltará la descendencia de Israel para no ser nación delante de Mí eternamente.
37 And this is what I say: ‘No one can measure the sky, and no one can find out what is supporting the earth. Similarly, I cannot reject forever the descendants of Jacob because of all the [evil] things that they have done.’ [That is certain, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!
Si el cielo arriba puede ser medido, dice Yavé, o los cimientos de la tierra abajo se pueden explorar, entonces Yo desecharía toda la descendencia de Israel por todo lo que hicieron, dice Yavé.
38 [I], Yahweh, also say that there will be a time when [everything in] Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the tower of Hananel [at the northeast corner, west] to [the gate named] the Corner Gate.
Ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, en los cuales será edificada la ciudad de Yavé, desde la torre de Hananeel hasta la Puerta del Ángulo.
39 [Workers] will stretch a measuring line/string over Gareb Hill all the way [southwest] to Goah.
El cordel [de medir] saldrá derecho hasta la colina de Gareb, y doblará hasta Goa.
40 And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the [Kidron] Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city [of Jerusalem] will never again be captured or destroyed.”
Todo el valle de los cadáveres y las cenizas, y todas las llanuras hasta el arroyo de Cedrón hasta la esquina de la Puerta de los Caballos hacia el oriente, estarán consagrados a Yavé. Nunca jamás serán devastados ni destruidos.
