Jeremías 29

1 Estas son las palabras de la carta que el profeta Jeremías envió desde Jerusalén al resto de los ancianos de la cautividad, a los sacerdotes, a los profetas y a todo el pueblo que Nabucodonosor había llevado cautivo de Jerusalén a Babilonia,

After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.

2 (después de que el rey Jeconías la reina madre, los eunucos, los príncipes de Judá y de Jerusalén, los artesanos y los herreros habían salido de Jerusalén),

3 por mano de Elasá hijo de Safán y de Gemarías hijo de Hilcías, (a quienes Sedequías rey de Judá envió a Babilonia a Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia). Decía:

[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:

4 El Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice a todos los cautivos que he hecho llevar de Jerusalén a Babilonia

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:

5 “Construyan casas y habiten en ellas. Planten jardines y coman sus frutos.

“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.

6 Tomen esposas y engendren hijos e hijas. Tomen esposas para sus hijos, y den sus hijas a los maridos, para que den a luz hijos e hijas. Multiplicaos allí, y no os dejéis disminuir.

Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

7 Buscad la paz de la ciudad donde os he hecho cautivos, y rogad a Yahvé por ella, porque en su paz tendréis paz.”

Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”

8 Porque Yahvé de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: “No dejen que sus profetas que están entre ustedes y sus adivinos los engañen. No escuchen sus sueños que hacen soñar.

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,

9 Porque os profetizan falsamente en mi nombre. Yo no los he enviado”, dice Yahvé.

because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”

10 Porque Yahvé dice: “Después de que se cumplan setenta años para Babilonia, te visitaré y cumpliré mi buena palabra para contigo, haciéndote volver a este lugar.

This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].

11 Porque yo sé los pensamientos que tengo para ti — dice el Señor —, pensamientos de paz y no de mal, para darte esperanza y futuro.

I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.

12 Me invocarás, e irás a orar a mí, y yo te escucharé.

At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.

13 Me buscarás y me encontrarás, cuando me busques de todo corazón.

If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].

14 Seré hallado por ti — dice el Señor — y haré volver tu cautiverio, y te reuniré de todas las naciones y de todos los lugares a los que te he expulsado, dice el Señor. Os haré volver al lugar de donde os hice salir cautivos”.

I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”

15 Porque has dicho: “Yahvé nos ha suscitado profetas en Babilonia”,

[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.

16 Yahvé dice con respecto al rey que se sienta en el trono de David, y con respecto a todo el pueblo que habita en esta ciudad, tus hermanos que no han ido contigo al cautiverio,

But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.

17 Yahvé de los Ejércitos dice: “He aquí que yo envío sobre ellos la espada, el hambre y la peste, y los pondré como higos podridos que no se pueden comer, son tan malos.

The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.

18 Los perseguiré con la espada, con el hambre y con la peste, y los entregaré para que sean zarandeados de un lado a otro entre todos los reinos de la tierra, para que sean objeto de horror, de asombro, de silbido y de oprobio entre todas las naciones a las que los he expulsado,

I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].

19 porque no han escuchado mis palabras — dice Yahvé — con las que les envié a mis siervos los profetas, madrugando y enviándolos; pero no quisieron escuchar”, dice Yahvé.

[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.

20 Oíd, pues, la palabra de Yahvé, todos los cautivos que he enviado de Jerusalén a Babilonia.

[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.

21 El Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice sobre Ajab, hijo de Colaías, y sobre Sedequías, hijo de Maasías, que os profetizan una mentira en mi nombre: “He aquí que yo los entregaré en manos de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y él los matará ante vuestros ojos.

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.

22 Una maldición será levantada sobre ellos por todos los cautivos de Judá que están en Babilonia, diciendo: ‘Que el Señor te haga como Sedequías y como Acab, a quienes el rey de Babilonia asó en el fuego’;

Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’

23 porque han hecho cosas insensatas en Israel, y han cometido adulterio con las mujeres de sus vecinos, y han dicho en mi nombre palabras falsas, que yo no les mandé. Yo soy el que sabe, y soy testigo”, dice Yahvé.

They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”

24 Sobre Semaías el nehelamita hablarás diciendo:

[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:

25 “Yahvé de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: Porque has enviado cartas en tu nombre a todo el pueblo que está en Jerusalén, y a Sofonías hijo de Maasías, el sacerdote y a todos los sacerdotes, diciendo:

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:

26 “Yahvé te ha hecho sacerdote en lugar del sacerdote Joiada, para que haya oficiales en la casa de Yahvé, para que todo hombre que esté loco y se haga profeta, lo pongas en el cepo y en los grilletes.

[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].

27 Ahora bien, ¿por qué no habéis reprendido a Jeremías de Anatot, que se hace profeta para vosotros,

So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?

28 porque nos ha enviado a Babilonia, diciendo: La cautividad es larga. Construid casas, y habitad en ellas. Plantad jardines, y comed su fruto””.

He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”

29 El sacerdote Sofonías leyó esta carta a oídos del profeta Jeremías.

[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.

30 Entonces llegó la palabra de Yahvé a Jeremías, diciendo:

Then Yahweh gave me this message:

31 “Envía a todos los cautivos, diciendo: ‘Dice Yahvé acerca de Semaías el nehelamita: “Porque Semaías os ha profetizado, y yo no lo he enviado, y os ha hecho confiar en una mentira”,

“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.

32 Por eso Yahvé dice: “He aquí que yo castigaré a Semaías el nehelamita y a su descendencia. No tendrá un hombre que habite entre este pueblo. No verá el bien que haré a mi pueblo — dice el Señor — porque ha hablado con rebeldía contra el Señor”.

So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”