Jeremías 24

1 Después que Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, deportó desde Jerusalén a Jeconías, hijo de Joacim, rey de Judá, y a los magistrados de Judá con los artesanos y los herreros, y los llevó a Babilonia, Yavé me mostró dos cestas de higos puestas delante de la Casa de Yavé.

[The army of] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all his skilled workers [DOU] and took them to Babylon. After that happened, Yahweh gave me a vision. [In the vision] I saw two baskets of figs that had been placed in front of the temple.

2 Una cesta tenía higos muy buenos, como brevas, y la otra cesta tenía higos tan malos que no se podían comer.

One basket was full of good figs, like the kind that ripen first. The other basket was filled with figs that were bad/rotten, with the result that they could not be eaten.

3 Yavé me preguntó: ¿Qué ves, Jeremías? Y respondí: Higos, higos buenos, muy buenos, y otros tan malos que no se pueden comer.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I replied, “[I see some] figs. Some are very good ones, but some are very bad, with the result that no one would eat them.”

4 La Palabra de Yavé vino a mí:

Then Yahweh gave me this message:

5 Yavé ʼElohim de Israel dice: Como a estos higos buenos, consideraré para bien a los cautivos de Judá, a quienes eché desde este lugar a la tierra de los caldeos.

“This is what [I], Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people [say that they worship], say: ‘The good figs represent [SIM] the people of Judah whom I exiled to Babylonia.

6 Pues fijaré mis ojos sobre ellos para bien y los devolveré a esta tierra. Los edificaré y no los derribaré, los plantaré y no los arrancaré.

I [SYN] will (watch over/take care of) them well, and [some day] I will bring them back here [to Judah]. I will establish them and cause them to be strong. I will cause them to be prosperous [MET], and I will not exile them [again].

7 Les daré un corazón para que me conozcan que Yo soy Yavé. Ellos serán mi pueblo y Yo seré su ʼElohim, porque regresarán a Mí con todo su corazón.

I will enable them to desire to know [IDM] that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me sincerely.’

8 Pero como los higos malos que no se pueden comer, así son aquellos de quienes Yavé dice: Así entregaré a Sedequías, rey de Judá, a sus magistrados y al resto de Jerusalén, los que queden en esta tierra y los que viven en la tierra de Egipto.

But [I], Yahweh, [also] say, ‘The bad figs represent [SIM] Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all the [other] people who remain in Jerusalem, and those who have gone to Egypt. I will do to them like people do to rotten figs.

9 Los convertiré en terror para todos los reinos de la tierra, oprobio y mal ejemplo, insulto y maldición, en todos los lugares adonde los echaré.

I will [get rid of them], with the result that people in every nation on the earth will be horrified, and will hate them because they are evil people. Wherever I scatter them, people will make fun of them, and say that they are disgraced, and ridicule them, and curse them.

10 Enviaré la espada, el hambre y la pestilencia contra ellos hasta que sean exterminados de la tierra que les di a ellos y a sus antepasados.

And I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors.’”