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.
[Yahweh said to the people of Jerusalem], “Go up and down every street. Search in the marketplaces to find people who do what is fair/right, who try to be faithful to me. [If you find even one person like that], I will forgive [the people of Jerusalem and not destroy] their city.
2 Pues aunque dicen: Vive Yavé, ciertamente juran falsamente.
But when people there say, ‘I solemnly declare that as surely as Yahweh lives, [I will do what he says],’ they are lying.”
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.
Yahweh, you are certainly [RHQ] searching for [people who tell the] truth. You struck/punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. You crushed them, but they ignored what you were telling them to do. They were extremely stubborn [IDM] and refused to return to you.
4 Entonces yo dije: Ciertamente éstos son pobres. Enloquecieron, porque no conocen el camino de Yavé, el juicio de su ʼElohim.
I thought, “[We cannot expect] these [people to act righteously, because they] are poor; they do not have any sense. They do not know the way Yahweh wants them to conduct their lives; they do not know what God requires them to do.
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.
So, I will go and talk to their leaders, because they [surely] know how God wants them to conduct their lives.” But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh [MET], and they will not allow him to lead them.
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.
Because of that, lions will come out of the forests and kill them; wolves from the desert will attack them; leopards that lurk/wait outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. [Those things will happen] because the people have sinned very much against God and have turned away from him very frequently.
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.
Yahweh says, “I cannot [RHQ] forgive these people; [even] their children have abandoned me. When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods [to show that what they say is true]. I gave my people everything that they needed, but they often went to [the shrines of their idols] and committed adultery there.
8 Como caballos bien alimentados, cada cual relincha tras la esposa de su prójimo.
[Just like] [MET] well-fed male horses neigh, wanting sex with female horses, each of the men desires to have sex with his neighbor’s wife.
9 ¿No debo castigar estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿No debo vengarme de una nación como ésta?
(Should I not punish them for this [RHQ]?/I will certainly get revenge on this nation for this!) I will certainly get revenge [RHQ] on this nation whose people behave like that!
10 Suban a las terrazas de su viña y destruyan, pero no la destruyan por completo. Quiten sus ramas, porque no son de Yavé.
[I will say to your enemies], ‘The people [of Judah and Israel are like a vineyard]. Go along the rows in their vineyards and get rid of [most of] the people, but do not kill all of them. These people do not belong to me, [so get rid of them], [like a gardener] [MET] lops/cuts off branches from a vine.
11 Porque la Casa de Israel y la Casa de Judá me trataron de manera muy traidora, dice Yavé.
The people of Israel and Judah have turned away from me completely.’
12 Negaron a Yavé: ¡Él no existe! No vendrá sobre nosotros la calamidad, ni veremos espada ni hambre.
They have lied about me and said, ‘He will not punish us! He will not cause us to experience disasters! We will not experience wars or famines!
13 Los profetas son como el viento, y la Palabra no está en ellos. ¡Que así se les haga a ellos!
What [God’s] prophets say is nothing but hot air! They do not have messages [from God]! We would like [the disasters that they predict] to 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.
So, this is what Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, has said to me: “Because my people are saying those things, I will give you a message to tell them [MTY] that will be [like] [MET] a fire, and [these people will be like] [MET] wood that the fire will burn up.
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.
Listen to this, you people of Israel: I will bring [the army of] a distant nation to attack you. It is a very powerful nation that has existed for a long time. They speak a language that you do not know and which you will not be able to understand.
16 Su caja portátil para flechas es un sepulcro abierto. Todos ellos son valientes.
Their soldiers are all very strong, and the arrows from their quivers [MET] will (send many Israeli men to their graves/cause many Israeli people to die).
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.
They will eat the food that you have harvested from your fields, and eat your bread. They will kill your sons and daughters, and they will kill your flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle]. They will eat your grapes and your figs. They will [also] destroy your cities that have high walls around them and kill the people with their swords.
18 Pero ni aun en aquellos días, dice Yavé, los destruiré por completo.
But even when those things happen, I will not get rid of all of 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 when the survivors ask, ‘Why is Yahweh our God doing this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘You rejected him and worshiped foreign gods in your [own] land, so [now] you will become slaves of foreigners in a land that is not your land.’”
20 Proclamen esto en la casa de Jacob y que se oiga en Judá:
[Yahweh said to me], “Proclaim this to the people of Israel and Judah:
21 Oiga ahora esto, pueblo insensato e insensible, que tiene ojos, pero no mira, que tiene oídos, pero no escucha.
Listen to this, you people who are foolish and who do not have any sense: You have eyes, but [it is as though] you cannot see; you have ears, but [it is as though] you cannot 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.
Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it [and flood the land]. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.
23 Pero este pueblo tiene un corazón obstinado y rebelde. Apostataron y se fueron.
But you people [are not like the waves that obey me]. You people are very stubborn and rebellious. You have constantly turned away from me.
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.
You do not say to yourselves, ‘We should revere Yahweh our God, the one who sends us rain at the times when we need it, the one who causes the grain to become ripe at the harvest season.’
25 Las iniquidades de ustedes alejaron estas cosas. Sus pecados apartaron de ustedes el bien.
It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened; it is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
26 Porque en medio de mi pueblo se hallan hombres perversos. Acechan como acechan los que ponen trampas. Atrapan hombres.
Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush/attack people like [SIM] men who hunt birds (put out nets/set traps) to catch them.
27 Como una jaula llena de pájaros, así están sus casas llenas de engaño. Así se engrandecieron y fueron ricos.
Like [a hunter has] a cage full of birds [that he has captured], their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others. So now they are [very] rich and powerful.
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 are big and fat, and there is no limit to the evil things that they have done. They do not try to defend orphans in the courtrooms, and they do not help poor people to get what they have a right to receive.
29 ¿Y no voy a castigar Yo estas cosas? dice Yavé. ¿De una nación como ésta no se vengará mi alma?
So I will certainly [RHQ] punish them for doing those things. I will certainly [RHQ] (get revenge on their nation/do to their nation what they deserve).
30 Cosa espantosa y horrible sucedió en la tierra:
Very appalling/horrible and terrible [DOU] things are happening in this country:
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?
Prophets speak [only] lies and priests rule by their own authority, and you people like that! But when you [start to] experience disasters, what will you do [RHQ]?”
