Jeremías 27
1 Al principio del reinado de Joakim, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá, recibió Jeremías este oráculo de Yahvé:
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 Así me dijo Yahvé: “Hazte una coyunda y un yugo, y póntelos sobre el cuello.
Proclaim you among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 Luego los enviarás al rey de Edom, al rey de Moab, al rey de los hijos de Ammón, al rey de Tiro y al rey de Sidón, por mano de los mensajeros que han venido a Jerusalén a (tratar con) Sedecías rey de Judá;
For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
4 y les ordenarás que digan a sus señores: Así dice Yahvé de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: De esta manera habéis de hablar a vuestros señores:
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
5 Yo he hecho la tierra, a los hombres y las bestias que hay sobre la faz de la tierra con mi gran poder y mi brazo extendido; y la doy a quien me place.
They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
6 Al presente he dado todas estas tierras en poder de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, siervo mío; y le he dado también las bestias del campo para su servicio.
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
7 Todos los pueblos le han de servir, a él y a su hijo, y al hijo de su hijo, hasta que también a su país le toque el turno y lo sometan grandes naciones y reyes poderosos.
All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
8 Al pueblo y al reino que no le sirviere a él, a Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y que no sometiere su cerviz al yugo del rey de Babilonia, a tal pueblo visitaré Yo con la espada y con hambre y con peste, hasta destruirlo por mano de él. —Oráculo de Yahvé.
Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 Vosotros no escuchéis a vuestros profetas, ni a vuestros adivinos, ni a vuestros soñadores, ni a vuestros agoreros, ni a vuestros magos, que os repiten: «No seréis siervos del rey de Babilonia»,
For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
10 porque lo que os profetizan es mentira; para que seáis arrojados de vuestra tierra y Yo os destierre y perezcáis.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 Pero al pueblo que sometiere su cerviz al yugo del rey de Babilonia para servirle, lo dejaré en paz y en su tierra, dice Yahvé, y la cultivará y morará en ella.
Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 Hablé entonces a Sedecías, rey de Judá, conforme a todas estas palabras, diciendo: “Someted vuestra cerviz al yugo del rey de Babilonia, servidle a él y a su pueblo y viviréis.
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 ¿Para qué morir, tú y tu pueblo, a espada, y de hambre, y de peste, como Yahvé lo tiene dicho respecto del pueblo que no quiere servir al rey de Babilonia?
by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
14 No escuchéis las palabras de los profetas que os repiten: «No seréis siervos del rey de Babilonia», pues lo que os profetizan es mentira.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 Porque no los he enviado Yo, dice Yahvé, sino que profetizan falsamente en mi Nombre; para que Yo os destierre y perezcáis, tanto vosotros como los profetas que os profetizan.”
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
16 Hablé también a los sacerdotes y a todo este pueblo, diciendo: “Así dice Yahvé: No escuchéis las palabras de los profetas que os vaticinan, diciendo: «He aquí que los vasos de la Casa de Yahvé serán restituidos de Babilonia ahora muy pronto», porque lo que os profetizan es mentira.
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 No los escuchéis. Servid al rey de Babilonia, y viviréis. ¿Por qué ha de convertirse esta ciudad en desierto?
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
18 Si en verdad son profetas, y si en ellos está la palabra de Yahvé, que intercedan ahora con Yahvé de los ejércitos, a fin de que los vasos que quedan aún en la Casa de Yahvé y en el palacio del rey de Judá y en Jerusalén no vayan también a Babilonia.
Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
19 Así dice Yahvé de los ejércitos, acerca de las columnas, acerca del mar (de bronce), acerca de las basas y del resto de los vasos que aún quedan en esta ciudad,
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
20 y que no se llevó Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, al deportar de Jerusalén a Babilonia a Jeconías, hijo de Joakim, rey de Judá, con todos los nobles de Judá y de Jerusalén.
In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
21 Pues así dice Yahvé de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, respecto de los vasos que quedan aún en la Casa de Yahvé, y en la casa del rey de Judá, y en Jerusalén:
on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
22 “A Babilonia serán llevados, y allí estarán hasta el día que Yo los visitare, dice Yahvé, y los sacare y los devolviere a este lugar.”
A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
[the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
