Jeremías 22
1 Yavé dijo: Baja a la casa del rey de Judá y habla allí estas Palabras:
This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
2 Oye la Palabra de Yavé, oh rey de Judá, que te sientas sobre el trono de David, tú, tus esclavos y tu pueblo que entra por estas puertas.
‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
3 Yavé dice: Hagan lo recto y lo justo. Libren al oprimido de mano del opresor. No maltraten ni traten con violencia al extranjero, al huérfano, ni a la viuda, ni derramen sangre inocente en este lugar.
to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).
4 Porque si realmente obedecen esta Palabra, entonces los reyes que se sentarán en el trono en lugar de David entrarán por las puertas de esta casa. Ellos, sus esclavos y su pueblo entrarán montados en carrozas y caballos.
If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.
5 Pero si no escuchan estas Palabras, por Mí mismo juré, dice Yavé, que esta casa será desolada.
But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.”’”
6 Porque Yavé dice esto con respecto a la casa del rey de Judá: Eres para Mí como Galaad, como la cumbre del Líbano. Pero te convertiré en una desolación y en ciudades no habitadas.
And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.
7 Designé contra ti destructores, cada uno con sus armas, quienes talarán tus cedros más selectos y los echarán al fuego.
I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a fire.”
8 Entonces muchas gentes pasarán junto a esta ciudad. Cada uno dirá a su compañero: ¿Por qué Yavé obró así con esta gran ciudad?
People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”
9 Y responderán: Porque abandonaron el Pacto de Yavé su ʼElohim, se postraron ante ʼelohim extraños y les sirvieron.
And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] other gods.”
10 No lloren por un muerto, ni se lamenten por él. Lloren con amargura por el que se va, porque no regresará jamás ni verá la tierra donde nació.
[Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”
11 Porque con respecto a Salum, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá, quien reinó en lugar de su padre Josías y salió de este lugar, Yavé dice: Ya no regresará aquí.
Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].
12 Morirá en el lugar adonde lo llevaron cautivo, y ya no verá esta tierra.
He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
13 ¡Ay del que edifica su casa con injusticia y sus habitaciones sin equidad, que se sirve gratuitamente de su prójimo y no le paga el salario por su trabajo!
[And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.
14 Que dice: Me edificaré una casa espaciosa con amplios salones. Le abriré ventanas. La cubriré de cedro y la pintaré de rojo vivo.
He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”
15 ¿Reinarás porque te rodeas de cedro? Si tu antepasado comió, bebió y salió bien, se debió a que practicó el juicio recto y la justicia.
But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
16 Él defendió la causa del afligido y menesteroso. Por eso hizo bien. ¿No es eso lo que significa conocerme a Mí? dice Yavé.
Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.
17 Pero tus ojos y tu corazón no están fijados sino en tus ganancias deshonestas, en derramar la sangre inocente, en la opresión y la ofensa.
But [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”
18 Por tanto Yavé dice esto con respecto a Joacim, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá: No lo lamentarán: ¡Ay hermano mío! ¡Ay hermana mía! Ni lo lamentarán: ¡Ay ʼadon! ¡Ay su majestad!
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’
19 Será enterrado como un asno. Lo arrastrarán y lo tirarán fuera de las puertas de Jerusalén.
[When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!
20 Sube al Líbano y clama. Eleva tu voz en Basán. Clama también desde la [montaña] Abarim, porque todos sus amantes fueron destruidos.
[You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.
21 En tu gran prosperidad te hablé. Pero dijiste: No escucharé. Éste fue tu camino desde tu juventud. Nunca escuchaste mi voz.
When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.
22 El viento apacentará a todos tus pastores, y tus amantes irán al cautiverio. Ciertamente serás avergonzada y confundida por todas tus perversidades.
[So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].
23 Habitaste en el Líbano. Hiciste tu nido en los cedros. ¡Cómo gemirás cuando te lleguen las angustias, los dolores como de parturienta!
[Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”
24 Yavé dice: ¡Vivo Yo! que aunque Conías, hijo de Joacim, rey de Judá, fuera anillo de sellar en mi mano derecha, aun de allí lo sacaría.
Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off.
25 Te entregaré en mano de los que buscan tu vida, de aquellos a quienes tú temes, de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y de los caldeos.
You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.
26 A ti y a tu madre que te dio a luz los lanzaré a un país extraño donde no nacieron. Allí morirán.
I will expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.
27 No regresarán a la tierra a la cual con toda el alma ansían regresar.
You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”
28 ¿Es este hombre Conías una vasija despreciada y quebrada? ¿Es un trasto que nadie estima? ¿Por qué él y su generación fueron sacados y echados a una tierra que no conocieron?
[Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.
29 ¡Tierra, tierra, tierra! Oye la Palabra de Yavé.
[I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
30 Yavé dice: Inscriban a este hombre como uno privado de descendencia. Porque ninguno de su descendencia se sentará en el trono de David para reinar en Judá.
This is what Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”
