Jeremiah 7
1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
Palabra que vino a Jeremías de parte de Yahvé, diciendo:
2 “Go to the entrance of my temple, and give this message to the people: You people of Judah who worship here, listen to this message from Yahweh!
“Ponte en la puerta de la casa de Yahvé y proclama allí esta palabra, y di: “Oíd la palabra de Yahvé, todos los de Judá, que entráis por estas puertas para adorar a Yahvé”.
3 The Commander of the armies of angels says to you, ['If you] stop doing evil things and start doing what is right, I will allow you to remain living in your land.'
El Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: “Enmendad vuestros caminos y vuestras acciones, y os haré habitar en este lugar.
4 [But some people] are repeatedly saying to you, ‘The temple of Yahweh is here, [so we will be safe]; [he will not allow us and the temple to be destroyed].’ But do not pay attention to what they say, because they are deceiving you.
No confíes en palabras mentirosas, diciendo: ‘Templo de Yahvé, templo de Yahvé, templo de Yahvé, son estos’.
5 [I will act mercifully to you only] if you change your behavior and stop doing evil things, and if you [start to] act fairly/justly toward others,
Porque si enmendáis bien vuestros caminos y vuestras acciones, si hacéis bien la justicia entre el hombre y su prójimo;
6 and if you stop oppressing foreigners [who live in your country], and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering people, and if you stop worshiping (foreign gods/idols). However, if you continue to do those things, you will be destroyed.
si no oprimís al extranjero, al huérfano y a la viuda, y no derramáis sangre inocente en este lugar, y no andáis en pos de otros dioses para vuestro propio mal,
7 If you do what I have told you, I will allow you to stay in this land that I promised to your ancestors that it would belong to them [and their descendants] forever.
entonces haré que habitéis en este lugar, en la tierra que di a vuestros padres, desde siempre y para siempre.
8 [People are repeatedly] telling you, [‘The temple is here, so we are safe]’, and you are trusting/believing [that what they are saying is true], but it is a lie. [Those people are deceiving you, and what they say is] worthless.
He aquí que ustedes confían en palabras mentirosas que no pueden aprovechar.
9 You think that [RHQ] you can steal things, murder people, commit adultery, tell lies in court, and worship Baal and all those other gods that you did not know about previously,
¿Robaréis, asesinaréis, cometeréis adulterio, juraréis en falso, quemaréis incienso a Baal y caminaréis en pos de otros dioses que no habéis conocido,
10 and then come here and stand in front of this temple, which is my temple, and say ‘Nothing bad will happen to us!’, while you continue to do all those abominable things.
y luego vendréis y os presentaréis ante mí en esta casa, que se llama con mi nombre, y diréis: “Estamos liberados”, para hacer todas estas abominaciones?
11 Do you realize that you are causing this temple, which is my temple, to become like [MET] a den where bandits hide [RHQ]? Do you not know that I see [all the evil things that you people do there]?
¿Se ha convertido esta casa, que se llama con mi nombre, en una cueva de ladrones a vuestros ojos? He aquí que yo mismo lo he visto”, dice Yahvé.
12 [Long ago] I put my Sacred Tent at Shiloh [city], to be a place where people would worship me [MTY]. Think about how I [destroyed it] because my people, the Israeli people, did [many] wicked things there.
“Pero ve ahora a mi lugar que estaba en Silo, donde hice habitar mi nombre al principio, y mira lo que le hice por la maldad de mi pueblo Israel.
13 And while you were continually doing those wicked things, I told you about it many times, but you refused to listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer [me].
Ahora bien, como has hecho todas estas obras — dice el Señor — y te hablé, madrugando y hablando, pero no oíste; y te llamé, pero no respondiste;
14 Therefore, just like I destroyed Shiloh, I will [now] destroy this temple that was built for people to worship me [MTY], this temple that you trust in, that is in this place that I gave to you and your ancestors.
por lo tanto, haré con la casa que lleva mi nombre, en la que confías, y con el lugar que te di a ti y a tus padres, lo mismo que hice con Silo.
15 And I will expel you from this land and send you [to other countries] far away from me, just like I did to your relatives, the people of Israel.”
Te echaré de mi vista, como he echado a todos tus hermanos, a toda la descendencia de Efraín.
16 [Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah], do not pray for these people [any longer]. Do not cry for them or plead for [me to help] them, because I will not pay any attention to you.
“Por lo tanto, no oren por este pueblo. No eleven un clamor o una oración por ellos ni me intercedan, porque no los escucharé.
17 Do you see [the wicked things] that they are doing in the streets of Jerusalem and in the [other] towns in Judah?
¿No ves lo que hacen en las ciudades de Judá y en las calles de Jerusalén?
18 The children gather firewood and their fathers use it to make fires [on the altars to burn sacrifices]. The women knead/make dough to make cakes to offer to [their goddess Astarte who is called] the Queen of Heaven. And [on their altars] they pour out offerings of wine to [their] other idols. All of those things cause me to become extremely angry!
Los niños recogen leña, los padres encienden el fuego y las mujeres amasan la masa para hacer tortas a la reina del cielo y derramar libaciones a otros dioses, para provocarme a la ira.
19 But I am not [RHQ] the one whom they are hurting; they are really [RHQ] hurting themselves [by doing these things for which they should be] very ashamed!”
¿Acaso me provocan a la ira?”, dice el Señor. “¿No se provocan a sí mismos, para confusión de sus propios rostros?”
20 So Yahweh the Lord says this: “Because I am extremely angry with [what happens at] this place, I will punish these people severely [MTY]; my being very angry will be [like] [MET] a fire that will not be extinguished, and I will destroy the people, [their] animals, [their] fruit trees, and [their] crops.”
Por eso dice el Señor Yahvé: “He aquí que mi cólera y mi ira se derramarán sobre este lugar, sobre el hombre, sobre el animal, sobre los árboles del campo y sobre el fruto de la tierra; y arderá y no se apagará.”
21 Therefore, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Take away [IRO] your offerings that you bring to burn completely on your altars and your [other] sacrifices; [don’t give them to me]; eat them [yourselves]!
Yahvé de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: “Añadan sus holocaustos a sus sacrificios y coman carne.
22 When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not offerings to be completely burned on the altar or [other] sacrifices that I wanted from them.
Porque no hablé con vuestros padres ni les ordené el día que los saqué de la tierra de Egipto sobre holocaustos o sacrificios;
23 What I told them was, ‘Obey me; [if you do that], I will be your God and you will be my people. If you do the things that I want you to do, everything will go well for you.’
sino que les ordené esto, diciendo: ‘Escuchad mi voz, y yo seré vuestro Dios, y vosotros seréis mi pueblo. Caminen en todo el camino que yo les mando, para que les vaya bien’.
24 But your ancestors would not pay any attention [DOU] to me. They continued to do [the evil things] that they wanted to do, everything that in their stubborn inner beings they desired to do. Instead of coming closer to me, they went further away from me.
Pero ellos no escucharon ni prestaron atención, sino que caminaron en sus propios consejos y en la terquedad de su malvado corazón, y fueron hacia atrás y no hacia adelante.
25 From the day that your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my prophets to you.
Desde el día en que vuestros padres salieron de la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy, os he enviado a todos mis siervos los profetas, madrugando cada día y enviándolos.
26 But you, [my people], have not listened to me or paid attention to what I said; you have been stubborn, and you have done more sinful things than your ancestors did.”
Sin embargo, no me escucharon ni inclinaron su oído, sino que endurecieron su cuello. Hicieron peor que sus padres.
27 [Then Yahweh said to me], “When you tell all this to my people, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
“Les dirás todas estas palabras, pero no te escucharán. También los llamarás, pero no te responderán.
28 Say to them, ‘You people [of Judah] have not obeyed Yahweh, your God; you have not accepted it when he tried to correct you. No one among you is truthful; you do not say anything that is true; [you speak only lies].’
Les dirás: ‘Esta es la nación que no ha escuchado la voz de Yahvé, su Dios, ni ha recibido instrucción. La verdad ha perecido, y está cortada de su boca’.
29 [So, tell them to] cut off their hair [to show that they are mourning]; tell them to go up into the hills and sing a sad funeral song, because I have completely rejected [DOU] this generation [of people] who have made me angry.”
Córtate el cabello y arrójalo, y levanta un lamento en las alturas desnudas, porque Yahvé ha rechazado y abandonado a la generación de su ira.
30 Yahweh says this: “The people of Judah have done many things that I say are evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in my temple, causing it to become an unacceptable [place to worship me].
“Porque los hijos de Judá han hecho lo que es malo a mis ojos”, dice el Señor. “Han puesto sus abominaciones en la casa que se llama con mi nombre, para profanarla.
31 They have built altars at Topheth in Ben-Hinnom Valley [outside Jerusalem], and they sacrifice their sons and daughters on those altars. I never commanded them to do that; I never even thought that anyone would do that.
Han edificado los lugares altos de Tofet, que está en el valle del hijo de Hinom, para quemar en el fuego a sus hijos y a sus hijas, cosa que yo no ordené, ni se me ocurrió.
32 So they should beware! There will be a time when that place will no longer be called Topheth or the Hinnom Valley; instead, it will be called the Valley of Slaughter. There will be a huge number of people who will be buried there, with the result that there will be no space to bury more bodies.
Por tanto, he aquí que vienen días — dice Yahvé — en que ya no se llamará ‘Tofet’ ni ‘Valle del hijo de Hinom’, sino ‘Valle de la Matanza’; porque enterrarán en Tofet hasta que no haya lugar para enterrar.
33 The corpses of my people that are [not buried and are] left on the ground will be eaten by vultures and wild animals, and there will be no one to shoo/chase them away.
Los cadáveres de este pueblo serán alimento para las aves del cielo y para los animales de la tierra. Nadie los espantará.
34 There will be no one singing and laughing any more in the streets of Jerusalem; there will be no more joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides in Judah, because the land will be completely destroyed.”
Entonces haré cesar de las ciudades de Judá y de las calles de Jerusalén la voz de júbilo y la voz de alegría, la voz del novio y la voz de la novia; porque la tierra se convertirá en un desierto.”
