Jeremías 5
1 Recorran las calles de Jerusalén. Miren e infórmense. Busquen en sus plazas para ver si hallan un solo hombre y si hallan alguno que practique justicia, que busque la verdad, y Yo la perdonaré.
“Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.
2 Pues aunque dicen: Vive Yavé, ciertamente juran falsamente.
For even though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in this, too, they swear falsely.”
3 Oh Yavé, ¿no buscan tus ojos la verdad? Los castigaste, pero no les dolió. Los consumiste, pero se negaron a recibir corrección. Endurecieron sus rostros más que la roca. Rehúsan regresar.
O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.
4 Entonces yo dije: Ciertamente éstos son pobres. Enloquecieron, porque no conocen el camino de Yavé, el juicio de su ʼElohim.
But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.
5 Iré a los grandes y les hablaré, porque ellos conocen el camino de Yavé, el juicio de su ʼElohim. Pero todos ellos quebraron el yugo. Rompieron las correas.
Therefore, I will go to great men, and I will speak with them. For they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. And behold, these ones have broken the yoke all the more; they have torn apart the bonds.
6 Por tanto, el león de la selva los matará. El lobo del desierto los destruirá. El leopardo acecha sus ciudades. Cualquiera que salga de ellas será despedazado, porque sus transgresiones son muchas. Sus apostasías son numerosas.
For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.
7 ¿Por qué te debo perdonar esto? Tus hijos me abandonaron y juran por los que no son ʼelohim. Cuando Yo los alimento hasta la saciedad, ellos cometen adulterio. Corren en tropel a la casa de la prostituta.
“Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.
8 Como caballos bien alimentados, cada cual relincha tras la esposa de su prójimo.
They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
9 ¿No debo castigar estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿No debo vengarme de una nación como ésta?
Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?
10 Suban a las terrazas de su viña y destruyan, pero no la destruyan por completo. Quiten sus ramas, porque no son de Yavé.
Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord’s.
11 Porque la Casa de Israel y la Casa de Judá me trataron de manera muy traidora, dice Yavé.
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.
12 Negaron a Yavé: ¡Él no existe! No vendrá sobre nosotros la calamidad, ni veremos espada ni hambre.
They have denied the Lord, and they have said, ‘It is not him,’ and, ‘Evil will not overwhelm us. We will not see famine and the sword.’
13 Los profetas son como el viento, y la Palabra no está en ellos. ¡Que así se les haga a ellos!
The prophets have spoken into the wind, and there was no answer with them. Therefore, these things will happen to them.”
14 Por tanto, Yavé ʼElohim de las huestes dice: Porque dijeron esta palabra, convierto mi Palabra en fuego en tu boca y a este pueblo en leña, y los consumirá.
Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.
15 En verdad Yo traigo contra ustedes, oh Casa de Israel, dice Yavé, una nación lejana, perenne, antigua, cuya lengua no conocen, ni pueden entender lo que dice.
Behold, O house of Israel, I will lead over you a far away nation, says the Lord, a robust nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you will not know, nor will you understand what they are saying.
16 Su caja portátil para flechas es un sepulcro abierto. Todos ellos son valientes.
Their quiver is like an open sepulcher. They are all strong.
17 Devorarán tu cosecha de granos y tu pan. Devorarán a tus hijos y a tus hijas. Comerán tus rebaños y manadas de ganado vacuno. Devorarán tus viñas y tus higueras. Destruirán a espada tus ciudades fortificadas en las cuales fijas tu confianza.
And they will consume your grain fields and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vineyards and your figs. And with the sword, they will crush your fortified cities, in which you have placed your trust.
18 Pero ni aun en aquellos días, dice Yavé, los destruiré por completo.
Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you.
19 Sucederá que, cuando preguntes: ¿Por qué trae Yavé nuestro ʼElohim estas cosas sobre nosotros? les responderás: Como ustedes me abandonaron y sirvieron a ʼelohim extraños en su tierra, así servirán a los extraños en una tierra ajena.
And if they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You shall say to them: ‘Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.’
20 Proclamen esto en la casa de Jacob y que se oiga en Judá:
Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:
21 Oiga ahora esto, pueblo insensato e insensible, que tiene ojos, pero no mira, que tiene oídos, pero no escucha.
Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.
22 ¿No me temerán a Mí? dice Yavé. ¿No temblarán ante mi Presencia, Yo, Quien puso la arena de límite al mar, como estatuto perpetuo que no puede traspasar? Aunque se agiten sus ondas, no pueden prevalecer. Aunque rujan sus olas, no lo traspasan.
So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.
23 Pero este pueblo tiene un corazón obstinado y rebelde. Apostataron y se fueron.
But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.
24 No dicen en su corazón: Temamos ahora a Yavé nuestro ʼElohim, Quien nos da la lluvia temprana y tardía en su tiempo, y nos cumple los tiempos establecidos para la cosecha.
And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’
25 Las iniquidades de ustedes alejaron estas cosas. Sus pecados apartaron de ustedes el bien.
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.
26 Porque en medio de mi pueblo se hallan hombres perversos. Acechan como acechan los que ponen trampas. Atrapan hombres.
For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
27 Como una jaula llena de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de engaño. Así se engrandecieron y fueron ricos.
Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.
28 Engordaron y están lustrosos. También se excedieron en obras de perversidad. No defienden la causa del huérfano para que prospere. No respetaron el derecho de los pobres.
They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.
29 ¿Y no voy a castigar Yo estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿De una nación como ésta no se vengará mi alma?
Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?
30 Cosa espantosa y horrible sucedió en la tierra:
Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.
31 Los profetas profetizan mentira y los sacerdotes dirigen guiados por ellos, y así lo quiere mi pueblo. ¿Qué, pues, harán cuando llegue su fin?
The prophets have prophesied lies, and the priests have applauded with their hands, and my people have loved these things. So then, what shall be done at the very end?”
