Jeremías 49
1 Yavé dice: ¿Israel no tiene hijos? ¿No tiene heredero? ¿Por qué Milcom desposeyó a Gad, y el pueblo de él se estableció en sus ciudades?
About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?
2 Por tanto, ciertamente vienen días, dice Yavé, en los cuales produciré un toque de trompeta para guerra contra Rabá de los hijos de Amón. Será convertida en una pila de escombros, y sus ciudades serán incendiadas. Entonces Israel tomará posesión de lo que era suyo, dice Yavé.
Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.
3 ¡Lamenta, oh Hesbón, porque Hai es destruida! ¡Lloren, hijas de Rabá, átense tela áspera! Laméntense y corran de un lado a otro entre sus cercos de tierra apisonada, porque Milcom irá a cautividad junto con sus sacerdotes y magistrados.
Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.
4 ¡Cuán ufanada estás de tus valles, de tu valles que fluyen abundancia, oh hija apóstata! Tú que confías en tus tesoros, y dices: ¿Quién vendrá contra mí?
Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?
5 Mira, Yo envío un terror sobre ti que te rodeará por todas partes, dice ʼAdonay Yavé de las huestes. Serán expulsados precipitadamente, y no habrá quien reúna a los fugitivos.
See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.
6 Pero después restauraré a los cautivos de Amón, dice Yavé.
But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.
7 Con respecto a Idumea. Yavé de las huestes dice: ¿Ya no hay sabiduría en Temán? ¿Se perdió el buen consejo de los prudentes? ¿Decayó su sabiduría?
About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?
8 Huyan, regresen, vivan en las profundidades, oh habitantes de Dedán. Porque el desastre le llega a Esaú en el tiempo cuando Yo lo castigo.
Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.
9 Si te invaden cosechadores de uvas, ¿no te dejarían rebuscos? Si vinieran ladrones de noche, destruirían solo hasta que tengan suficiente.
If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?
10 Pero soy Yo el que desnudo a Esaú. Descubro sus escondites y no podrá esconderse. Su descendencia será destruida junto con sus parientes y vecinos, y dejará de ser.
I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.
11 Deja a tus huérfanos. Yo los mantendré con vida. Deja que tus viudas confíen en Mí.
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
12 Porque Yavé dice: En verdad, los que no estaban sentenciados a beber la copa ciertamente la beberán, ¿y serás tú el que sea completamente absuelto? No serás absuelto, sino realmente la beberás.
For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.
13 Porque juré por Mí mismo, dice Yavé, que Bosra será un objeto de terror, un reproche, una desolación y una maldición. Todas sus ciudades serán desolaciones perpetuas.
For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.
14 Un mensaje escuché de Yavé. Un embajador es enviado a las naciones: ¡Reúnanse, vengan contra ella, y suban a la batalla!
Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.
15 En verdad, te declaro pequeña entre las naciones, y despreciada entre los hombres.
For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.
16 El terror que inspiraste y la soberbia de tu corazón te engañaron. ¡Oh tú que habitas en las cavernas de la peña! Aunque hagas tu nido como el águila, de allí te bajaré, dice Yavé.
... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
17 Idumea se convertirá en una desolación. Todo el que pase por ella silbará de asombro al ver sus heridas.
And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
18 Será como la catástrofe de Sodoma y Gomorra y sus ciudades vecinas, dice Yavé. Por tanto nadie vivirá allí ni residirá hijo de hombre en ella.
As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.
19 Como un león que sube de la espesura del Jordán al pastizal de perenne verdor, así los correré de allí y la entregaré al que sea escogido. Porque, ¿quién es semejante a Mí? ¿Quién me desafía? ¿Cuál es el pastor que prevalece delante de Mí?
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
20 Por tanto, escuchen el designio de Yavé contra Edom y sus planes contra los habitantes de Temán: Ciertamente arrastrarán aun a los pequeños del rebaño. Ciertamente convertirá los pastizales deseables en una desolación por causa de ellos.
For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
21 Tiembla la tierra al estruendo de la caída. El ruido se oye en el mar Rojo.
The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.
22 En verdad, Él se remonta y vuela. Se abalanza como un águila, y extiende sus alas contra Bosra. En aquel día el corazón de los valientes de Edom será como el corazón de una parturienta.
See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
23 Con respecto a Damasco. Amat y Arpad están avergonzadas porque oyeron malas noticias. Se derriten en un mar de ansiedad que no puede sosegarse.
About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.
24 Damasco se debilita y se alista para huir. El temblor se apoderó de ella. Está dominada por la angustia y los dolores, como de una parturienta.
Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.
25 ¡Cómo está abandonada la ciudad famosa, el pueblo de mi regocijo!
How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!
26 Por tanto, aquel día sus jóvenes caen en sus calles, y todos los guerreros perecerán, dice Yavé de las huestes.
So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.
27 Encenderé un fuego en el muro de Damasco que devorará los palacios fortificados de Ben-adad.
And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.
28 Yavé dice esto contra Cedar y los reinos de Hazor, a quienes Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, derrotó: Levántense, suban contra Cedar. Destruyan a los hombres del oriente.
About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.
29 Tomen sus tiendas y los rebaños de ellos. Tomen las cortinas de sus tiendas, sus bienes y sus camellos para ellos mismos. Ellos clamarán el uno al otro: ¡Terror por todos lados!
Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
30 Corran, huyan, vivan en las profundidades, oh habitantes de Hazor, dice Yavé, porque Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, tiene un plan contra ustedes.
Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.
31 ¡En pie! Marchen contra un pueblo confiado, que vive tranquilo sin puertas, ni cerrojos y vive solitario, dice Yavé.
Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.
32 Sus camellos servirán como botín y numerosos ganados como despojo. Los esparciré por todos los puntos cardinales, hasta los más remotos confines, a todos los que cortan las esquinas [de su cabello]. De todos lados les traeré su calamidad, dice Yavé.
And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
33 Hazor será como residencia de chacales, una desolación perpetua. Nadie vivirá allí, ni la habitará hijo de hombre.
And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.
34 Palabra de Yavé que vino al profeta Jeremías con respecto a Elam, al principio del reinado de Sedequías, rey de Judá:
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,
35 Yavé de las huestes dice: Ciertamente Yo quiebro el arco de Elam, el arma principal de su poder.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.
36 Traeré sobre Elam los cuatro puntos cardinales de los cuatro ángulos del cielo. Los esparciré a todos estos puntos. No habrá nación a donde no vayan los desterrados de Elam.
And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.
37 Provocaré que Elam se aterrorice delante de sus enemigos, y delante de los que buscan su vida. Traeré el mal y el ardor de mi ira sobre ellos, dice Yavé. Enviaré la espada tras ellos hasta que los acabe.
And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:
38 Entonces estableceré mi trono en Elam. Allí destruiré al rey y a los magistrados, dice Yavé.
I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.
39 Pero sucederá en los últimos días, dice Yavé, que restauraré a los cautivos de Elam.
But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.
