Jeremías 5
1 Recorred las calles de Jerusalén, mirad y observad, y buscad por sus plazas, a ver si halláis un hombre; uno solo que practique la justicia y busque la verdad; y Yo la perdonaré.
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
2 Pues aun cuando dicen: ¡Vive Yahvé!, no obstante ello juran en falso.
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
3 ¿No es la fidelidad, oh Yahvé, lo que buscan tus ojos? Tú los castigaste, y no les dolió; los consumiste, mas rechazaron la corrección; han hecho su cara más dura que la roca; no quisieron convertirse.
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
4 Entonces dije: “¡Ah! son solo los pobres, ellos son los insensatos, porque no conocen el camino de Yahvé, la ley de su Dios.
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
5 Me iré a los grandes, y hablaré con ellos; ellos conocerán el camino de Yahvé, la ley de su Dios”. Pero también ellos todos quebraron el yugo y rompieron las coyundas.
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
6 Por eso los mata el león del bosque, los devora el lobo del desierto; y el leopardo está acechando en torno de sus ciudades; quien salga de ellas será despedazado: porque son muchos sus pecados y han aumentado sus apostasías.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
7 “¿Cómo te podré perdonar esto? Tus hijos me han abandonado y juran por los que no son dioses: Los he saciado, mas ellos se entregan al adulterio, y se juntan en casa de la ramera.
How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
8 Caballos gordos que están en celo; relincha cada cual tras la mujer de su prójimo.
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
9 ¿No he de castigar Yo esto? dice Yahvé. ¿De una nación como esta no he de tomar venganza?
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
10 Escalad sus muros, y destruid; mas no acabéis del todo con ellos; arrancad sus sarmientos, pues no son de Yahvé.
Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
11 Porque la casa de Israel y la casa de Judá han apostatado de Mí, dice Yahvé.
For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
12 Han renegado de Yahvé, y han dicho: “No es Él; no vendrá sobre nosotros ningún mal, no veremos ni espada ni hambre;
They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
13 los profetas no son más que viento, y no tienen oráculos (de Dios). ¡Que estos caigan sobre ellos mismos!”
And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.
14 Por esto, así dice Yahvé, el Dios de los ejércitos: “Por cuanto habéis dicho esto, mirad que hago de mis palabras un fuego, y este pueblo será la leña que los devore.
For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.
15 He aquí que voy a traer contra vosotros, oh casa de Israel, una nación lejana, dice Yahvé; un pueblo fuerte, un pueblo antiquísimo; un pueblo cuya lengua no conoces, y cuyas palabras no entiendes.
See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
16 Su aljaba es como sepulcro abierto; todos ellos son hombres valientes.
Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
17 Devorarán tu cosecha y tu pan; devorarán a tus hijos y a tus hijas; devorarán tus rebaños y tus ganados; devorarán tus viñas y tus olivares; y destruirán a espada tus ciudades fuertes en que confías.
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
18 Mas ni aun en aquellos días, dice Yahvé, acabaré del todo con vosotros.”
But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
19 Y si os preguntareis: “¿Por qué Yahvé, nuestro Dios, ha traído todo esto sobre nosotros?” les responderás: “Como me habéis dejado a Mí sirviendo a dioses extraños en vuestra tierra así serviréis a los extranjeros en tierra no vuestra.”
And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
20 Promulgad esto en la casa de Jacob, y pregonadlo en Judá, diciendo:
Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,
21 “Escucha esto, pueblo insensato y sin cordura: Tienen ojos y no ven, tienen oídos y no oyen.
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
22 ¿No me habéis de temer?, dice Yahvé; ¿no temblaréis delante de Mí, que puse al mar por término la arena, como límite perpetuo que no puede traspasar? Por más que se agiten sus olas, son impotentes, aunque se enfurezcan no podrán rebasarlo.”
Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
23 Mas este pueblo tiene un corazón rebelde y contumaz; han apostatado y se van.
But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
24 Y no dicen en su corazón: “Temamos a Yahvé, nuestro Dios, que nos da a su tiempo la lluvia temprana y la tardía, y nos concede las semanas destinadas a la cosecha.”
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
25 Vuestras iniquidades han trastornado este orden, y vuestros pecados os han privado del bien.
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
26 Pues en mi pueblo hay malvados; ponen asechanzas como el pajarero que se agacha, arman trampas para cazar hombres.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
27 Como jaula llena de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de fraude; así se han engrandecido y enriquecido.
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
28 Engordaron y brillan de gordura; sobresalen en maldad; no hacen justicia al huérfano —y sin embargo prosperan—, no hacen justicia a los pobres.
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
29 ¿Y Yo no habré de castigar estas cosas? dice Yahvé. ¿De una nación como esta no he de tomar venganza?
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
30 Cosa extraña y terrible acontece en la tierra:
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
31 los profetas profetizan mentira, y los sacerdotes gobiernan según su antojo; y esto le gusta a mi pueblo. Pero ¿qué haréis cuando estas cosas lleguen a su fin?
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
