Jeremías 9
1 Oh, si mi cabeza fuera agua, y mis ojos un manantial de lágrimas, para llorar día y noche ¡por los muertos de la hija de mi pueblo!
I wish that my head was [like] [MET] a spring of water, and that my eyes were [like] a fountain of tears. Then I would cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed [by our enemies].
2 Oh, que tuve en el desierto un lugar de hospedaje de los caminantes, para dejar a mi pueblo ¡y pasar de ellos! Porque todos son adúlteros, una asamblea de hombres traidores.
I wish that I could leave my people and forget them, and go and live in a shack/shelter in the desert, because they have not remained faithful [MET] [to Yahweh]; they are a mob of people who deceive others.
3 “Doblan la lengua, como su arco, por la falsedad. Se han hecho fuertes en la tierra, pero no por la verdad; pues proceden de mal en mal, y no me conocen”, dice Yahvé.
[Yahweh replied to me], “They use their tongues [to tell] [MET] lies like people shoot [arrows] with bows. It is because they tell lies that they have become more powerful in this land, and they do not know me.
4 “Que cada uno se cuide de su prójimo, y no confíes en ningún hermano; porque cada hermano lo suplantará por completo, y todo vecino irá por ahí como un calumniador.
Do not trust your neighbors and [even] your brothers! They all are as deceitful [as Jacob was]. They slander [each other] and tell lies [about each other].
5 Los amigos se engañan entre sí, y no dirá la verdad. Han enseñado su lengua a hablar mentiras. Se cansan de cometer iniquidades.
They deceive their friends and never tell the truth. They lie continually and, because of that, they have become skilled liars; they do one oppressive thing after another, and are unable to stop doing it.
6 Tu morada está en medio del engaño. Mediante el engaño, se niegan a conocerme”, dice Yahvé.
They habitually lie and deceive [each other], and no one will admit/say that I am God.
7 Por eso dice el Señor de los Ejércitos, “He aquí que los fundiré y los pondré a prueba; porque, ¿cómo debo tratar a la hija de mi pueblo?
Therefore [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, say this: Listen carefully to what I say: I will [cause my people to experience great afflictions, ] [like a metalworker puts metal in a hot fire] [MET] to completely burn out the impure bits. Because of all [the evil things] that my people have done, there is absolutely nothing else [RHQ] that I can do.
8 Su lengua es una flecha mortal. Habla de engaño. Uno habla pacíficamente con su vecino con la boca, pero en su corazón, espera para emboscarlo.
What they say [MTY] [injures people like] [MET] poisoned arrows do. They say to their neighbors, ‘I hope things will go well for you,’ while they are planning to kill them.
9 ¿No debería castigarlos por estas cosas?” dice Yahvé. “¿No debería mi alma ser vengada en una nación como ésta?
Should I not punish them for doing that [RHQ]? Yes, I should certainly (get revenge on/give what they deserve to) [the people of] a nation that does things like that!”
10 Lloraré y me lamentaré por las montañas, y se lamenta por los pastos del desierto, porque están quemados, para que nadie pase por ellos; Los hombres no pueden oír la voz del ganado. Tanto las aves del cielo como los animales han huido. Se han ido.
So, I will weep and wail for [the people who live in] the mountains and in the (pastures/places where the livestock eat the grass), because those areas will be desolate, and no one will live there. There will be no cattle there to call to each other, and all the birds and wild animals will have fled [to other places].
11 “Haré de Jerusalén montones, una morada de chacales. Haré de las ciudades de Judá una desolación, sin habitante”.
[Yahweh also says], “I will cause Jerusalem to become a heap of ruins, and [only] jackals/wolves will live there. I will destroy the towns of Judah, with the result that they will be completely deserted; no one will live there.”
12 ¿Quién es lo suficientemente sabio para entender esto? ¿Quién es aquel a quien la boca de Yahvé ha hablado para que lo declare? ¿Por qué la tierra ha perecido y se ha quemado como un desierto, para que nadie pase por ella?
[I said], “Only people who are very wise [RHQ] can understand these things. Only those who have been taught by Yahweh can [RHQ] explain these things to others. The wise people are [RHQ] the only ones who can explain why the land will be completely ruined with the result that everyone [RHQ] will be afraid to travel through it.”
13 Yahvé dice: “Porque han abandonado mi ley que puse delante de ellos, y no han obedecido mi voz ni han andado en mis caminos,
Yahweh replied, “[These things will happen] because my people have rejected my laws which I gave to them; they have not obeyed me or my instructions.
14 sino que han andado según la terquedad de su propio corazón y según los baales que les enseñaron sus padres.”
Instead, they have stubbornly done the things that they wanted to do. They have worshiped the idols that represent the god Baal, which is what their ancestors did.
15 Por eso el Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, dice: “He aquí que yo alimentaré a este pueblo con ajenjo y le daré a beber agua envenenada.
So now listen to what [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, the God of the Israelis, say: [What I will do will be like] [MET] giving these people bitter things to eat and poison to drink:
16 También los dispersaré entre las naciones, a las que ni ellos ni sus padres han conocido. Enviaré la espada tras ellos, hasta que los haya consumido”.
I will scatter them to many nations which neither they nor their ancestors have known [anything about]; I will [enable their enemies to] strike them with swords until I have destroyed them.”
17 El Señor de los Ejércitos dice, “Considerad, y llamad a las mujeres de luto, para que vengan. Manda llamar a las mujeres hábiles, para que vengan.
This is also what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Think [about what is happening], [then] summon those women who mourn [when someone has died].
18 Que se den prisa y que se lamenten por nosotros, para que nuestros ojos se llenen de lágrimas y nuestros párpados brotan con aguas.
Tell them to come quickly and start to wail, with the result that tears will stream down from your(pl) eyes.
19 Porque se oye una voz de lamento desde Sión, ‘¡Cómo estamos arruinados! Estamos muy confundidos porque hemos abandonado la tierra, porque han derribado nuestras moradas’”.
Listen to [the people of] Jerusalem crying/lamenting, saying, ‘We have been ruined/destroyed! We have experienced a terrible disaster! Now we are very ashamed, because our houses have been destroyed [by our enemies], and we [are being forced to] leave our land.’”
20 Pero escuchen la palabra de Yahvé, mujeres. Que tu oído reciba la palabra de su boca. Enseña a tus hijas los lamentos. Que cada uno enseñe a su vecino un lamento.
You women, listen to what Yahweh says [MTY]. Pay attention to his words [DOU]. Teach your daughters to wail. Teach each other how to sing funeral songs,
21 Porque la muerte ha subido a nuestras ventanas. Ha entrado en nuestros palacios para cortar a los niños del exterior, y los jóvenes de la calle.
because people will be dying [PRS] in your houses and in palaces. There will be no more children playing in the streets, there will be no more young men [gathering] in the city squares/marketplaces.
22 Habla: “Dice Yahvé, “‘Los cadáveres de los hombres caerán como estiércol en el campo abierto, y como el puñado después de la cosechadora. Nadie los reunirá’”.
There will be corpses scattered across the fields like dung; their dead bodies will lie there like [SIM] grain that has been cut by reapers/farmers, and there will be no one [still alive] to bury them.
23 Yahvé dice, “No dejes que el sabio se gloríe en su sabiduría. No dejes que el poderoso se gloríe en su poder. No dejes que el rico se gloríe en sus riquezas.
Yahweh says this: “Wise men should not boast about their being wise, strong men should not boast about their being strong; and rich people should not boast about their being rich.
24 Pero el que se gloríe, que se gloríe en esto, que tiene entendimiento, y me conoce, que yo soy Yahvé, que ejerzo la bondad amorosa, la justicia y la rectitud en la tierra, porque yo me deleito en estas cosas”, dice Yahvé.
Instead, those who want to boast should boast about their knowing me and about understanding that I am Yahweh, that I am kind and just and righteous, that I faithfully love [people], and that I am delighted with [people who act] that way.
25 “He aquí que vienen días — dice Yahvé — en que castigaré a todos los que se circuncidan sólo en su carne:
There will be a time when I will punish all those people of Egypt and of the Moab people-group and of the Edom [people-group] and of the Ammon [people-group], all those people who live close to desert areas (OR, who cut their hair short [to please their gods]) far from Judah, all those people who have [changed their bodies by] circumcising them [MET] but who have not [changed] their inner beings. I will punish the people of Judah also, because they have not changed their inner beings, [either].”
26 Egipto, Judá, Edom, los hijos de Amón, Moab y todos los que tienen cortadas las puntas de sus cabellos, que habitan en el desierto, porque todas las naciones son incircuncisas, y toda la casa de Israel es incircuncisa de corazón.”
