Jeremías 17
1 El pecado de Judá está esculpido con cincel de hierro. Está grabado en la tabla de su corazón y en los cuernos de sus altares con punta de diamante.
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
2 Como ellos recuerdan a sus hijos, así se acuerdan de sus Aseras junto a árboles frondosos sobre las altas colinas,
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
3 en el campo, sobre mi Montaña. Entregaré al saqueo tus riquezas y todos tus tesoros por el pecado de tus lugares altos en todo tu territorio.
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
4 Tú misma serás privada de la herencia que te di, y en una tierra que no conoces serás esclava de tus enemigos, porque encendiste en mi furor un fuego que arderá para siempre.
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
5 Yavé dice: Maldito el que confía en el hombre, se apoya en un brazo de carne y cuyo corazón se aparta de Yavé.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
6 Será como un arbusto en una llanura desierta. No verá cuando venga el bien, sino vive en sequedales en el desierto, una tierra salitrosa e inhabitable.
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
7 Bendito el que confía en Yavé, cuyo fundamento está en Yavé.
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
8 Será como árbol plantado junto a las aguas, que extiende sus raíces hacia las corrientes. No teme cuando viene el calor, pues su follaje estará frondoso. El año de sequía no se afanará, ni dejará de dar su fruto.
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
9 Engañoso es el corazón más que todas las cosas, y perverso. ¿Quién puede entenderlo?
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
10 Yo, Yavé, escudriño el corazón y pruebo la mente para dar a cada uno conforme a sus caminos, conforme al fruto de sus obras.
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
11 El que acumula riquezas injustas es como la perdiz que incuba lo que no puso. En la mitad de sus días las abandonará, y en sus últimos años resultará ser un necio.
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
12 Trono glorioso, excelso desde el principio, es el lugar de nuestro Santuario.
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
13 Oh Yavé, Esperanza de Israel, los que te abandonan serán avergonzados. Todos los que se apartan de Ti serán inscritos en el polvo, porque abandonaron a Yavé, Fuente de agua viva.
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
14 Sáname, oh Yavé, y seré sanado. Sálvame y seré salvado, porque Tú eres mi Alabanza.
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
15 Ciertamente ellos me dicen: ¿Dónde está la Palabra de Yavé? ¡Que se cumpla!
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
16 Pero yo no me apresuré a ser un pastor que no va tras Ti. No deseé ese horrible día. Tú lo sabes: En tu presencia expresé lo que salió de mis labios.
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
17 No seas un terror para mí. Tú eres mi Refugio en el día de la aflicción.
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
18 Que se avergüencen los que me persiguen, pero que no me avergüence yo. Que se aterroricen ellos, y no me aterrorice yo. Trae el día malo sobre ellos, y destrúyelos con doble quebranto.
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
19 Yavé me dice: Vé y ponte en pie en la puerta de los hijos del pueblo, por la cual los reyes de Judá entran y salen, en todas las puertas de Jerusalén,
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
20 y diles: Oigan la Palabra de Yavé, oh reyes de Judá, y todo Judá, con todos los habitantes de Jerusalén que entran por estas puertas.
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
21 Yavé dice: Guárdense para no traer cargas el día sábado, para introducirlas por las puertas de Jerusalén.
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
22 Tampoco saquen cargas de sus casas el día sábado, ni hagan algún trabajo, sino santifiquen el día sábado, como lo ordené a sus antepasados.
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
23 Pero ellos no escucharon, ni inclinaron su oído, sino se volvieron indómitos para no escuchar ni recibir corrección.
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
24 Sucederá que si ustedes me escuchan atentamente, dice Yavé, y no introducen carga por las puertas de esta ciudad el día sábado, sino santifican el día sábado, y no hacen en él algún trabajo,
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
25 los reyes y príncipes que se sientan en el trono de David, ellos y sus príncipes, los varones de Judá y los habitantes de Jerusalén entrarán por las puertas de esta ciudad en carrozas y en caballos. Esta ciudad será habitada para siempre.
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
26 Vendrán de las ciudades de Judá, los alrededores de Jerusalén, la tierra de Benjamín, la Sefela, la región montañosa y el Neguev. Traerán holocaustos, sacrificios, ofrenda vegetal e incienso, y ofrenda de acción de gracias a la Casa de Yavé.
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
27 Pero si no me escuchan para santificar el día sábado y no llevar una carga ni introducirla por las puertas de Jerusalén el día sábado, Yo encenderé un fuego en sus puertas que devorará los palacios de Jerusalén y no será apagado.
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
