Jeremiah 23
1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
¡Ay de los pastores que destruyen y dispersan las ovejas de mi prado! dice Yavé.
2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this concerning the shepherds who are shepherding his people, “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away. You have not cared for them. So I am about to punish you for the evil you have done—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Por eso con respecto a los pastores que pastorean a mi pueblo, Yavé ʼElohim de Israel dice: Ustedes dispersaron mis ovejas, las ahuyentaron y no las atendieron. Ciertamente Yo los castigo por la perversidad de sus acciones, dice Yavé.
3 I myself will gather the remnant of my flock from all of the lands where I have driven them, and I will return them to a grazing place, where they will be fruitful and increase.
Yo reuniré el remanente de mis ovejas de todas las tierras adonde las eché y las devolveré a sus prados. Crecerán y se multiplicarán.
4 Then I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them so they will no longer fear or be shattered. None of them will go missing—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Designaré para ellas pastores que las pastoreen. Ya no temerán ni se turbarán. Ninguna faltará, dice Yavé.
5 See, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will raise up for David a righteous branch. He will reign as king; he will act wisely and cause justice and righteousness in the land.
Ciertamente vienen días en los cuales levantaré un Retoño justo para David, dice Yavé, y reinará como Rey. Obrará sabiamente, y ejecutará juicio recto y justicia en la tierra.
6 In his days Judah will be rescued, and Israel will live in security. Then this is the name by which he will be called: Yahweh is our righteousness.
En sus días Judá será salvado, e Israel vivirá confiado. Éste es el Nombre con el cual será llamado: Yavé, Justicia Nuestra.
7 Therefore see, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when they will no longer say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought the people of Israel up from the land of Egypt.'
Miren, vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando ya no dirán: ¡Vive Yavé, Quien sacó a los hijos de Israel de la tierra de Egipto!
8 Instead they will say, 'As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led back the descendants of the house of Israel from the northern land and all the lands where they had been driven.' Then they will live in their own land.”
Sino: ¡Vive Yavé, Quien sacó y trajo la descendencia de la Casa de Israel de la tierra del norte y de todas las tierras adonde los echó! Y vivirán en su tierra.
9 Regarding the prophets, my heart is broken in me, and all of my bones tremble. I have become like a drunk man, like a man whom wine has overpowered, because of Yahweh and his holy words.
A causa de los profetas, mi corazón está quebrantado dentro de mí, y todos mis huesos se estremecen. Fui como un ebrio, un hombre dominado por el vino, a causa de Yavé y a causa de sus santas Palabras.
10 For the land is full of adulterers. Because of these the land is dried up. The meadows in the wilderness dry up. These prophets' paths are wicked; their power is not used in a right manner.
Porque la tierra está llena de adúlteros. La tierra gime a causa de una maldición y los pastos de la llanura se secaron. La carrera de ellos es mala, y su poder no es recto.
11 “For both the prophets and the priests are polluted. I even found their wickedness in my house!—this is Yahweh's declaration—
Porque tanto el profeta como el sacerdote están contaminados. Aun en mi Casa hallo sus perversidades, dice Yavé.
12 therefore their way will be like a slippery place in the darkness. They will be pushed down. They will fall in it. For I will send disaster against them in the year of their punishment—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Por tanto su camino será como senderos resbaladizos. Serán empujados a la oscuridad y caerán en ella, porque traeré calamidad sobre ellos el año de su castigo, dice Yavé.
13 For I have seen the prophets in Samaria doing what is repulsive: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
Entre los profetas de Samaria vi esta locura: Profetizan por baal y extravían a mi pueblo Israel.
14 Among the prophets in Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: They commit adultery and walk in deceit. They strengthen the hands of evildoers; no one turns back from his evildoing. All of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomorrah!”
Entre los profetas de Jerusalén vi algo horrible: Cometen adulterio, practican la mentira y apoyan las manos de los perversos para que nadie se convierta de su perversidad. Todos ellos fueron para mí como Sodoma, y sus habitantes, como Gomorra.
15 Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this concerning the prophets, “Look, I am about to make them eat wormwood and drink poisonous water, for pollution has gone out from the prophets of Jerusalem to all the land.”
Por tanto, con respecto a estos profetas, Yavé de las huestes dice: Ciertamente Yo les doy a comer ajenjo y a beber agua envenenada. Porque de los profetas de Jerusalén salió la blasfemia a toda la tierra.
16 Yahweh of hosts says this, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They have deluded you! They are announcing visions from their own minds, not from Yahweh's mouth.
Yavé de las huestes dice: No escuchen las palabras de los profetas que les profetizan. Los alimentan con vanas esperanzas. Hablan visión de su corazón, no de la boca de Yavé.
17 They are constantly saying to those who dishonor me, 'Yahweh declares there will be peace for you.' For everyone walking in the stubbornness of his own heart says, 'Disaster will not come upon you.'
Dicen atrevidamente a los que me desprecian: Yavé dijo: ¡Tendrán paz! Y a todo el que anda tras la terquedad de su corazón, le dicen: ¡No llegará mal sobre ustedes!
18 Yet who has stood in Yahweh's council meeting? Who sees and hears his word? Who pays attention to his word and listens?
Pero, ¿quién estuvo en el secreto de Yavé, que oyó y escuchó su Palabra?
19 See, there is a storm coming from Yahweh! His fury is going out, and a tempest is whirling about. It is whirling around the heads of the wicked.
Ciertamente la tempestad de Yavé sale con furia. Es una tempestad que se arremolina. Se precipita sobre las cabezas de los perversos.
20 Yahweh's wrath will not return until it has carried out and brought into being his heart's intentions. In the final days, you will understand it.
La ira de Yavé no se apartará hasta que se ejecute y se realice el propósito de su corazón. Al final de los días entenderán claramente.
21 I did not send out these prophets. They just appeared. I did not proclaim anything to them, but they have still prophesied.
Yo no envié a esos profetas, pero ellos corrían. No les hablé, pero ellos profetizaban.
22 For if they had stood in my council meeting, they would have caused my people to hear my word; they would have caused them to turn from their wicked words and corrupt practices.
Si hubieran estado en mi consejo, habrían proclamado mis Palabras a mi pueblo, y los habrían devuelto de su mal camino y la maldad de sus obras.
23 Am I only a God nearby—this is Yahweh's declaration—and not also a God far away?
¿Soy Yo ʼElohim solo de cerca, dice Yavé, y no ʼElohim de lejos?
24 Can anyone hide in a secret place so I cannot see him?—this is Yahweh's declaration— and do I not fill the heavens and the earth?—this is Yahweh's declaration.
¿Podrá alguien ocultarse, en escondrijos donde Yo no lo vea? dice Yavé. ¿No lleno Yo el cielo y la tierra?
25 I have heard what the prophets have said, those who were prophesying deceit in my name. They said, 'I had a dream! I had a dream!'
Oí lo que dicen los profetas que profetizan en mi Nombre y dicen: ¡Tuve un sueño, tuve un sueño!
26 How long will this go on, prophets who prophesy lies from their minds, and who prophesy from the deceit in their hearts?
¿Hasta cuándo? ¿Qué hay en el corazón de los profetas que profetizan mentira, que profetizan el engaño de su propio corazón?
27 They are planning on making my people forget my name with the dreams that they report, each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors forgot my name in favor of Baal's name.
¿Con los sueños que cada uno cuenta a su compañero, piensan lograr que mi pueblo olvide mi Nombre, así como sus antepasados olvidaron mi Nombre a causa de baal?
28 The prophet who has a dream, let him report the dream. But the one to whom I have declared something, let him declare my word truthfully. What does straw have to do with grain?—this is Yahweh's declaration—
El profeta que tenga un sueño, cuente ese sueño, y el que reciba mi Palabra, diga mi Palabra con fidelidad. Yavé dice: ¿Qué tiene que ver la concha de trigo trillado con el trigo?
29 Is not my word like fire?—this is Yahweh's declaration—and like a hammer that shatters a rock into pieces?
¿No es mi Palabra como fuego, dice Yavé, y como un martillo que despedaza la roca?
30 So see, I am against the prophets—this is Yahweh's declaration—anyone who steals words from another person and says they come from me.
Por tanto, ciertamente Yo estoy contra los profetas, dice Yavé, que hurtan mis Palabras el uno del otro.
31 See, I am against the prophets—this is Yahweh's declaration—who use their tongues to prophesy proclamations.
En verdad Yo estoy contra los profetas, dice Yavé, que sueltan sus lenguas y dicen: Él dice.
32 See, I am against the prophets who dream deceitfully—this is Yahweh's declaration—and then proclaim them and in this way mislead my people with their deceit and boasting. I am against them, for I have not sent them out nor given them commands. So they will certainly not help this people—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Ciertamente Yo estoy contra los que profetizan sueños mentirosos, dice Yavé, y los cuentan, y extravían a mi pueblo con sus mentiras y su temeridad. Porque Yo no los envié ni les di orden, y ningún provecho traen a este pueblo.
33 When these people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, 'What is the burden of Yahweh?' you will say to them, 'You are the burden, and I will cast you off'—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Cuando este pueblo, o el profeta, o el sacerdote te pregunte: ¿Cuál es la Palabra de Yavé? Les responderás: Ustedes son la palabra, y Yo los desecharé, dice Yavé.
34 As for the prophets, priests, and people who are saying, 'This is the burden of Yahweh' I will punish that man and his house.
Si un sacerdote o uno del pueblo dice: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Lo castigaré a él y a su casa.
35 You continue to say, each person to his neighbor and each man to his brother, 'What did Yahweh answer?' and 'What did Yahweh declare?'
Cada uno dirá a su compañero y a su hermano: ¿Qué responde Yavé? ¿Qué dice Yavé?
36 But you must no longer talk about the 'burden of Yahweh,' for the burden is every man's own word, and you have perverted the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.
Ya no digan: Palabra de Yavé, porque cada uno llevará sus propias palabras, ya que pervirtió las Palabras del ʼElohim viviente, de Yavé de las huestes, nuestro ʼElohim.
37 This is what you will say to the prophet, 'What answer did Yahweh give you? or 'What did Yahweh say?'
Dirás al profeta: ¿Qué responde Yavé? ¿Qué dice Yavé?
38 But if you say, 'The burden of Yahweh', this is what Yahweh says: 'Because you have said these words, 'The burden of Yahweh,' when I sent to you, saying, 'You will not say, “The burden of Yahweh,”'
Pero si dicen: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Entonces, Yavé dice: Porque dicen esta palabra: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Aunque Yo envié a decirles: No digan: ¡Palabra de Yavé!
39 therefore, behold, I am about to pick you up and throw you away from me, along with the city that I gave you and your ancestors.
Por tanto, ciertamente Yo los olvidaré por completo y los echaré de mi Presencia, juntamente con la ciudad que di a ustedes y a sus antepasados.
40 Then I will put everlasting shame and insult on you that will not be forgotten.'”
Impondré sobre ustedes afrenta perpetua y humillación eterna que no serán olvidadas.
