Jeremías 8
1 En aquel tiempo, dice Yavé, sacarán de los sepulcros los huesos de los reyes de Judá, sus magistrados, los sacerdotes, los profetas y los habitantes de Jerusalén.
Yahweh says, “At the time [that your corpses are scattered on the ground], [your enemies will] break open the graves of your kings and [other] officials who lived in Judah, and the graves of your priests and prophets and other people who lived there.
2 Los esparcirán ante el sol, la luna y toda la hueste del cielo, a quienes amaron y rindieron culto, siguieron y consultaron, y se postraron. No serán recogidos ni sepultados. Quedarán como abono sobre la superficie de la tierra.
They will take out their bones [from their graves] and [dishonor them by] scattering them on the ground under the sun and the moon and the stars— those are the gods which my people loved and served and worshiped. No one will gather up their bones and bury them [again]; they will remain scattered on the ground like dung.
3 El remanente que quede de toda esta perversa familia preferirá la muerte y no la vida en todos los lugares a donde Yo los eche, dice Yavé de las huestes.
And all the people of this wicked nation [who are still alive and] whom I have exiled to other countries will say, ‘We would prefer to die than to continue to stay alive [here in these countries].’ [That will be true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
4 Les dirás: Yavé dice: El que cae, ¿no se volverá a levantar? El que se desvía, ¿no se devuelve?
[Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah], tell the people that this is what [I], Yahweh, am saying to them: ‘When people fall down, they get up again, do they not [RHQ]? When people are going along a road and find out that they are walking on the wrong road, they go back [and find the correct road], do they not [RHQ]?
5 ¿Por qué apostata este pueblo, Jerusalén, con perpetua apostasía? Se aferran al engaño, rehúsan regresar.
[Yes, they do], so why do these people [of Judah] continue [trusting in those idols that have deceived them]? They continue turning away from me, [even though I have warned them].
6 Oí atentamente y escuché. No hablan rectamente. No hay quien se arrepienta de su perversidad y diga: ¿Qué hice? Cada cual se apartó por su camino, como caballo que arremete en la batalla.
I have listened carefully [DOU] [to what they say], but they do not say what they should say. Not one of them is sorry for having sinned. No one says, “I have done [RHQ] wicked things.” They are [sinning and] doing what they want to as fast as [SIM] a horse that is running into a battle.
7 Aun la cigüeña en el cielo conoce sus tiempos. La tórtola, la golondrina y la grulla observan el tiempo de su migración, pero mi pueblo no conoce la Ordenanza de Yavé.
All the birds [that fly south for the (winter/cold season)] know the time that they need to fly south, and they all return at the right time the following year. But my people [are not like those birds]! They do not know what [I], Yahweh, require them to do.
8 ¿Cómo dicen: Somos sabios, la Ley de Yavé está con nosotros? Ciertamente la pluma engañosa del escriba la convirtió en mentira.
Your men who teach you [the laws that Moses wrote] have been saying false things [about those laws]. [So], why [RHQ] do they [continue] saying, “We are [very] wise [because] we have the laws of Yahweh”?
9 Los sabios se avergonzaron. Se espantaron y fueron consternados. Ciertamente aborrecieron la Palabra de Yavé. ¿Cuál sabiduría tienen?
Those teachers, who think that [IRO] they are wise, will be ashamed/disgraced and dismayed when they are taken [to other countries by their enemies] because they sinned by rejecting what I told them. Truly, they were not [RHQ] very wise to do that!
10 Por tanto, daré sus esposas a otros, y sus campos a los conquistadores, porque cada uno, desde el más pequeño hasta el más grande, persigue la avaricia. Todos practican el engaño desde el profeta hasta el sacerdote.
So, I will give their wives to other men; I will give their fields to [the enemy soldiers] who conquer them. All the people, including those who are important and those who are not important, deceive [others] in order to obtain their possessions. Even [my] prophets and my priests do that.
11 Curan con liviandad el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo, pues dicen: ¡Paz! ¡Paz! Y no hay paz.
[They act as though the sins of my people] are not serious, [like] [MET] wounds that do not need to be cleaned and bandaged. They tell the people that everything will go well with them, [but that is not true]; things will not go well with them.
12 ¿Se avergonzaron cuando cometieron repugnancia? Ciertamente no se avergonzaron ni supieron ruborizarse. Por tanto, caerán con los que caigan. En el tiempo de su castigo tropezarán, dice Yavé.
They should be [RHQ] ashamed when they do disgusting things [RHQ], but they do not even know how to show on their faces that they are ashamed [about their sins]. So, [they will be killed, and] their corpses [also] will lie among the corpses of others who have been slaughtered [by their enemies]. They will be killed when I punish them.
13 En verdad los acabaré, dice Yavé. No habrá racimos en la vid, ni higos en la higuera. Hasta las hojas se marchitarán, y lo que les di pasará de ellos.
I will [allow their enemies to] take away the figs and grapes that the people would have harvested from their fields. Their fruit trees will all wither. They will not receive [all] the blessings that I prepared for them. [This will certainly happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.’”
14 ¿Por qué nos quedamos aquí sentados? Reúnanse y entremos en las ciudades fortificadas y perezcamos allí, porque Yavé nuestro ʼElohim nos lleva a perecer. Nos dio a beber agua envenenada, porque pecamos contra Yavé.
[Then the people will say], “(Why should we wait here [in these small towns]?/We should not wait here [in these small towns].) [RHQ]! We should go to the cities that have high walls around them, [but even if we do that] we will be killed there, because Yahweh our God has decided that we must be destroyed; [it is as though] [MET] he has given us a cup of poison to drink, because we sinned against him.
15 Esperábamos paz y no hay tal bien, día de sanidad, pero aquí está el terror.
We hoped/desired that things would go well for us, but things have not gone well. We hoped that bad things would not happen to us any more, but only things that terrify us [are happening to us].
16 Desde Dan se oye el relincho de los caballos. Toda la tierra se estremece ante el estruendo del relincho de sus corceles. Llegan y devoran la tierra y todo lo que hay en ella, la ciudad y sus habitantes.
People [far north in Israel] in [the city of] Dan can already hear the snorting of the horses of their enemies [who are preparing to attack us]. [It is as though] the entire land [of Judah] is shaking as their army approaches; they are coming to destroy our land and everything in it, the people and the cities.”
17 Porque ciertamente Yo envío contra ustedes serpientes, víboras, contra las cuales no hay encantamiento, y los morderán, dice Yavé.
[Yahweh says], “I will send [those enemy soldiers to Judah], and they will be like [MET] poisonous snakes among you. No one will be able to stop them from attacking you [MET]; they will attack you like snakes do, [and kill you].”
18 Aunque tenga consuelo en la aflicción, mi corazón desfallece dentro de mí.
I grieve very much [for the people of Judah], and my grieving does not end. I am very sad [IDM].
19 Ciertamente escucho el lamento de la hija de mi pueblo desde una tierra lejana. ¿No está Yavé en Sion? ¿Su Rey no está en ella? ¿Por qué me provocaron con imágenes de talla, con ídolos extraños?
Throughout our land, the people ask, “Has Yahweh abandoned Jerusalem? Is [he], our city’s king, no longer there?” [Yahweh replies], “Why do the people cause me to become very angry by [worshiping] idols and foreign gods?” [RHQ]
20 Pasó la cosecha. Se acabó el verano y nosotros no fuimos salvados.
[The people say], “The harvest [season] is finished, the (summer/hot season) has ended, [and we hoped that we would receive blessings from Yahweh], but he has not rescued us [from our enemies].”
21 Por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo estoy quebrantado. Estoy entenebrecido. El espanto me arrebató.
I cry because my people have been crushed. I mourn, and I am completely dismayed.
22 ¿No hay bálsamo en Galaad? ¿No hay médico allí? ¿Entonces, por qué no hay sanidad para la hija de mi pueblo?
[I ask], “Surely there is [RHQ] medicinal balm in the Gilead [region]! Surely there are [RHQ] doctors there!” But my people have been badly wounded [in their spirits], and nothing can heal them.
