Jeremías 23
1 ¡Ay de los pastores que destruyen y dispersan las ovejas de mi prado! dice Yavé.
“Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear apart the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord.
2 Por eso con respecto a los pastores que pastorean a mi pueblo, Yavé ʼElohim de Israel dice: Ustedes dispersaron mis ovejas, las ahuyentaron y no las atendieron. Ciertamente Yo los castigo por la perversidad de sus acciones, dice Yavé.
Because of this, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to the shepherds who pasture my people: You have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you have not visited them. Behold, I will visit upon you because of your evil pursuits, says the Lord.
3 Yo reuniré el remanente de mis ovejas de todas las tierras adonde las eché y las devolveré a sus prados. Crecerán y se multiplicarán.
And I will gather together the remnant of my flock from the entire earth, from the places to which I had cast them out. And I will return them to their own fields. And they will increase and be multiplied.
4 Designaré para ellas pastores que las pastoreen. Ya no temerán ni se turbarán. Ninguna faltará, dice Yavé.
And I will raise up shepherds over them, and they will pasture them. They will no longer dread, and they will no longer fear. And no one among their number will be seeking more, says the Lord.
5 Ciertamente vienen días en los cuales levantaré un Retoño justo para David, dice Yavé, y reinará como Rey. Obrará sabiamente, y ejecutará juicio recto y justicia en la tierra.
Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch. And a king will reign, and he will be wise. And he will exercise judgment and justice upon the earth.
6 En sus días Judá será salvado, e Israel vivirá confiado. Éste es el Nombre con el cual será llamado: Yavé, Justicia Nuestra.
In those days, Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in confidence. And this is the name that they will call him: ‘The Lord, our Just One.’
7 Miren, vienen días, dice Yavé, cuando ya no dirán: ¡Vive Yavé, Quien sacó a los hijos de Israel de la tierra de Egipto!
Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when they will no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives, who led the sons of Israel away from the land of Egypt,’
8 Sino: ¡Vive Yavé, Quien sacó y trajo la descendencia de la Casa de Israel de la tierra del norte y de todas las tierras adonde los echó! Y vivirán en su tierra.
but instead, ‘As the Lord lives, who led away and brought back the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from the entire earth,’ from the places to which I had cast them out. And they will live in their own land.”
9 A causa de los profetas, mi corazón está quebrantado dentro de mí, y todos mis huesos se estremecen. Fui como un ebrio, un hombre dominado por el vino, a causa de Yavé y a causa de sus santas Palabras.
To the prophets: “My heart is crushed within me. All my bones are trembling. I have become like an inebriated man, and like a man maddened by wine, before the face of the Lord, and before the face of his holy words.
10 Porque la tierra está llena de adúlteros. La tierra gime a causa de una maldición y los pastos de la llanura se secaron. La carrera de ellos es mala, y su poder no es recto.
For the earth is full of adulterers! And the earth has mourned before the face of evil talk. The plains of the desert have dried up, and their course has become hazardous, and their firmness has become uneven.”
11 Porque tanto el profeta como el sacerdote están contaminados. Aun en mi Casa hallo sus perversidades, dice Yavé.
“For both the prophet and the priest have become polluted, and I have found their wickedness within my own house, says the Lord.
12 Por tanto su camino será como senderos resbaladizos. Serán empujados a la oscuridad y caerán en ella, porque traeré calamidad sobre ellos el año de su castigo, dice Yavé.
For this reason, their way will be like a slippery path in the dark. For they will be impelled forward, and they will fall in it. For I will bring evils over them, in the year of their visitation, says the Lord.
13 Entre los profetas de Samaria vi esta locura: Profetizan por baal y extravían a mi pueblo Israel.
And I have seen the foolishness of the prophets of Samaria. They have prophesied in Baal, and they have deceived my people Israel.
14 Entre los profetas de Jerusalén vi algo horrible: Cometen adulterio, practican la mentira y apoyan las manos de los perversos para que nadie se convierta de su perversidad. Todos ellos fueron para mí como Sodoma, y sus habitantes, como Gomorra.
And in the prophets of Jerusalem, I have seen the likeness of adulterers and the path of falsehood. And they have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that each one would not convert from his malice. They have all become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants have become like Gomorrah.”
15 Por tanto, con respecto a estos profetas, Yavé de las huestes dice: Ciertamente Yo les doy a comer ajenjo y a beber agua envenenada. Porque de los profetas de Jerusalén salió la blasfemia a toda la tierra.
Because of this, thus says the Lord of hosts to the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them absinthe, and I will give them gall to drink. For from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption has gone forth over the entire earth.”
16 Yavé de las huestes dice: No escuchen las palabras de los profetas que les profetizan. Los alimentan con vanas esperanzas. Hablan visión de su corazón, no de la boca de Yavé.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not choose to listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you and deceive you. They speak a vision from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.
17 Dicen atrevidamente a los que me desprecian: Yavé dijo: ¡Tendrán paz! Y a todo el que anda tras la terquedad de su corazón, le dicen: ¡No llegará mal sobre ustedes!
To those who blaspheme me, they say: ‘The Lord has said: You shall have peace.’ And to everyone who walks in the depravity of his own heart, they have said: ‘No evil will overwhelm you.’”
18 Pero, ¿quién estuvo en el secreto de Yavé, que oyó y escuchó su Palabra?
For who has been present in the counsel of the Lord, and who has seen and heard his word? Who has considered his word and heard it?
19 Ciertamente la tempestad de Yavé sale con furia. Es una tempestad que se arremolina. Se precipita sobre las cabezas de los perversos.
Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord’s indignation will go forth, and a tempest will break out; it will overwhelm the head of the impious.
20 La ira de Yavé no se apartará hasta que se ejecute y se realice el propósito de su corazón. Al final de los días entenderán claramente.
The fury of the Lord will not return until it succeeds, and until it completes the plan of his heart. In the last days, you will understand this counsel.
21 Yo no envié a esos profetas, pero ellos corrían. No les hablé, pero ellos profetizaban.
“I did not send these prophets, yet they hurry forward. I was not speaking to them, yet they were prophesying.
22 Si hubieran estado en mi consejo, habrían proclamado mis Palabras a mi pueblo, y los habrían devuelto de su mal camino y la maldad de sus obras.
If they had stood in my counsel, and if I had made my words known to my people, certainly I would have turned them away from their evil ways and from their most wicked plans.
23 ¿Soy Yo ʼElohim solo de cerca, dice Yavé, y no ʼElohim de lejos?
Do you not realize that I am a God close by, says the Lord, and not a God far away?
24 ¿Podrá alguien ocultarse, en escondrijos donde Yo no lo vea? dice Yavé. ¿No lleno Yo el cielo y la tierra?
If a man is hidden in concealed places, do I not see him, says the Lord? Do I not fill up heaven and earth, says the Lord?
25 Oí lo que dicen los profetas que profetizan en mi Nombre y dicen: ¡Tuve un sueño, tuve un sueño!
I have heard what the prophets have said, prophesying falsehoods in my name, and also saying: ‘I have dreamed! I have dreamed!’
26 ¿Hasta cuándo? ¿Qué hay en el corazón de los profetas que profetizan mentira, que profetizan el engaño de su propio corazón?
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who predict what is false, and who prophesy deceptions from their own heart?
27 ¿Con los sueños que cada uno cuenta a su compañero, piensan lograr que mi pueblo olvide mi Nombre, así como sus antepasados olvidaron mi Nombre a causa de baal?
They want to cause my people to forget my name, by means of their dreams, which each of them describes to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot my name for the sake of Baal.
28 El profeta que tenga un sueño, cuente ese sueño, y el que reciba mi Palabra, diga mi Palabra con fidelidad. Yavé dice: ¿Qué tiene que ver la concha de trigo trillado con el trigo?
The prophet who has had a dream, let him describe the dream. And he who receives my word, let him speak my word in truth. For what has the chaff to do with the wheat, says the Lord?
29 ¿No es mi Palabra como fuego, dice Yavé, y como un martillo que despedaza la roca?
Are not my words like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer crushing rock?
30 Por tanto, ciertamente Yo estoy contra los profetas, dice Yavé, que hurtan mis Palabras el uno del otro.
Therefore, behold: I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words, each one from his neighbor.
31 En verdad Yo estoy contra los profetas, dice Yavé, que sueltan sus lenguas y dicen: Él dice.
Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take up their tongues and say: ‘The Lord says it.’
32 Ciertamente Yo estoy contra los que profetizan sueños mentirosos, dice Yavé, y los cuentan, y extravían a mi pueblo con sus mentiras y su temeridad. Porque Yo no los envié ni les di orden, y ningún provecho traen a este pueblo.
Behold, I am against the prophets, who dream what is false, says the Lord; who explain and so seduce my people with their falsehoods and with their miracles, though I did not send them, nor did I command them. They have offered nothing beneficial to this people, says the Lord.
33 Cuando este pueblo, o el profeta, o el sacerdote te pregunte: ¿Cuál es la Palabra de Yavé? Les responderás: Ustedes son la palabra, y Yo los desecharé, dice Yavé.
Therefore, if this people, or a prophet, or a priest questions you, saying, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden. And certainly I will cast you away, says the Lord.’
34 Si un sacerdote o uno del pueblo dice: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Lo castigaré a él y a su casa.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, ‘The burden of the Lord!’ I will visit upon that man and upon his house.
35 Cada uno dirá a su compañero y a su hermano: ¿Qué responde Yavé? ¿Qué dice Yavé?
And then you will speak in this way, each one to his neighbor and to his brother: ‘What has the Lord answered? And what has the Lord said?’
36 Ya no digan: Palabra de Yavé, porque cada uno llevará sus propias palabras, ya que pervirtió las Palabras del ʼElohim viviente, de Yavé de las huestes, nuestro ʼElohim.
And the burden of the Lord will no longer be called to mind. For each one’s own word will be a burden. For you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts, our God.
37 Dirás al profeta: ¿Qué responde Yavé? ¿Qué dice Yavé?
And then you will speak in this way to the prophet: ‘What has the Lord answered you? And what has the Lord spoken?’
38 Pero si dicen: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Entonces, Yavé dice: Porque dicen esta palabra: ¡Palabra de Yavé! Aunque Yo envié a decirles: No digan: ¡Palabra de Yavé!
But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord!’ then because of this, thus says the Lord: Since you have spoken this word, ‘The burden of the Lord!’ though I sent to you telling you not to say: ‘The burden of the Lord,’
39 Por tanto, ciertamente Yo los olvidaré por completo y los echaré de mi Presencia, juntamente con la ciudad que di a ustedes y a sus antepasados.
because of this, behold, I will take you away, like a burden, and I will forsake you, as well as the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, before my face.
40 Impondré sobre ustedes afrenta perpetua y humillación eterna que no serán olvidadas.
And I will give you over to an everlasting reproach and an eternal disgrace, which shall never be wiped away into oblivion.”
