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1 ¡Ay de los que planean maldades y traman iniquidad en sus camas! ¡Cuando llega la mañana las ejecutan con el poder que tienen en su mano!
Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, [as soon as] you are able to do them.
2 Codician campos y los roban. Codician casas y se las llevan. Roban al hombre, su familia y su heredad.
You want fields [that belong to other people], so you seize them; you also take their houses. You cheat people to get their homes, taking away the property that belongs to their families.
3 Por tanto, Yavé dice: Ahora ciertamente Yo traigo una calamidad contra esta familia de la cual ustedes no podrán apartar sus cuellos, ni andar con arrogancia. Porque será un tiempo de calamidad.
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: “I will cause you people to experience disasters, and you will not be able to escape [MTY] from them. You will no [longer] walk around proudly, because when those things happen, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
4 Aquel día se levantará una mofa contra ustedes, un amargo lamento y dirán: ¡Somos completamente destruidos! Él cambió la heredad de mi pueblo. ¡Cómo me la quitó! A los infieles distribuyó mis campos.
At that time, [your enemies] will make fun of you; they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; Yahweh is taking our land/fields from us, and he will give it to those who will capture us.’”
5 Por tanto, ya no habrá en la congregación de Yavé quien eche la cuerda para medir una posesión.
So [when it is the time for the land to be given back to you] people who belong to Yahweh, there will be no one [MTY] who will be able to (cast lots/throw marked stones) to determine which land belongs to whom.
6 Dicen a los que profetizan: ¡No profeticen! Así la afrenta no nos alcanzará.
The people [who heard me say that] replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that [Yahweh] is going to humiliate us [by causing us to experience disasters]!”
7 Se dice, oh casa de Jacob: ¿El Espíritu de Yavé está impaciente? ¿Son éstas sus obras? ¿Mis palabras no hacen bien al que anda rectamente?
But you people [MTY] of Israel should not [RHQ] talk like that! The Spirit of Yahweh will certainly not [RHQ] be patient [with people who say such things]! People who continually do things that are righteous will certainly [RHQ] like/appreciate what I say.
8 Recientemente mi pueblo se alzó como un enemigo. Hoy despojan del manto y la ropa al que transita confiado, a los que regresaron de la guerra.
[But Yahweh says], “[Recently] my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting [against their enemies], you [rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you] [and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you]. [It is as though] you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!
9 Echan a las mujeres de mi pueblo fuera del calor de sus hogares y despojan de mi gloria a sus hijos para siempre.
You have forced women to leave their nice homes, and you have stolen from their children forever the (blessings/good things) that I wanted to give them.
10 Levántense y caminen, porque éste no es lugar de reposo, pues está contaminado a causa de la impureza que trae una penosa destrucción.
[So] get up and leave [here]! This is not a place where you can rest [and be safe/protected], because you have (defiled it/caused it to be a place that I hate); it will be completely destroyed.
11 Si viene un hombre con espíritu de falsedad, miente y dice: Profetizo que tendrán vino y mosto fermentado de manzana, ¡Ése será el profeta de este pueblo!
[You people want] a prophet who will lie to you, saying ‘I will preach [that you should drink] plenty of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks!’ That is the [kind of] prophet who [would please] you.”
12 ¡Ciertamente reuniré a todos, oh Jacob! Ciertamente congregaré al remanente de Israel. Los reuniré como ovejas en el redil, como un rebaño en medio del pastizal. Harán mucho ruido por causa de la multitud de gente.
“[But some day], you descendants of Jacob, you Israeli people who have survived, I will bring you back [from (exile/other countries)], I will gather you together like [SIM] [a shepherd gathers his] sheep from the pasture into a pen [DOU]; there will be many of you in your land/country.
13 El que abre caminos va delante de ellos, irrumpen, pasan por la puerta y salen. Su rey va delante de ellos, y a la cabeza está Yavé.
Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled; he will lead them out of the gates [of their enemies’ cities], [back to your own country]. Your king will lead them; [it is I], Yahweh, who will be their king!”
