Jeremías 29

1 Y estas son las palabras de la carta que Jeremías profeta envió de Jerusalem a los ancianos que habían quedado de los trasportados, y a los sacerdotes, y profetas, y a todo el pueblo que Nabucodonosor llevó cautivo de Jerusalem a Babilonia:

After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Después que salió el rey Jeconías, y la reina, y los de palacio, y los príncipes de Judá y de Jerusalem, y los artífices, y los ingenieros de Jerusalem:

3 Por mano de Elasa, hijo de Safa, y de Gamarías, hijo de Elcías, los cuales envió Sedecías, rey de Judá, en Babilonia a Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, diciendo:

[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:

4 Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, a todos los de la cautividad que hice trasportar de Jerusalem en Babilonia:

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:

5 Edificád casas, y morád; y plantád huertos, y coméd del fruto de ellos.

“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.

6 Casáos, y engendrád hijos e hijas, dad mujeres a vuestros hijos, y dad maridos a vuestras hijas para que paran hijos e hijas; y multiplicáos allá, y no os hagáis pocos.

Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.

7 Y procurád la paz de la ciudad a la cual os hice traspasar, y rogád por ella a Jehová, porque en su paz tendréis también vosotros paz.

Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”

8 Porque así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: No os engañen vuestros profetas que están entre vosotros, ni vuestros adivinos, ni miréis a vuestros sueños que soñáis.

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,

9 Porque falsamente os profetizan ellos en mi nombre: no los envié, dijo Jehová.

because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”

10 Porque así dijo Jehová: Cuando en Babilonia se cumplieren los setenta años, yo os visitaré, y despertaré sobre vosotros mi palabra buena, para tornaros a este lugar.

This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].

11 Porque yo sé los pensamientos que yo pienso de vosotros, dijo Jehová, pensamientos de paz, y no de mal, para daros el fin que esperáis.

I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.

12 Entonces me invocaréis, y andaréis: oraréis a mí, y yo os oiré.

At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.

13 Y buscarme heis, y hallaréis; porque me buscaréis de todo vuestro corazón.

If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].

14 Y seré hallado de vosotros, dijo Jehová, y tornaré vuestra cautividad; y juntaros he de todas las naciones, y de todos los lugares donde os arrojé, dijo Jehová, y haceros he volver al lugar de donde os hice traspasar:

I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”

15 Porque dijisteis: Jehová nos despertó profetas en Babilonia.

[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.

16 Porque así dijo Jehová del rey que está asentado sobre el trono de David, y de todo el pueblo que mora en esta ciudad, vuestros hermanos, que no salieron con vosotros en la cautividad.

But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.

17 Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: He aquí que yo envío contra ellos espada, hambre, y pestilencia; y ponerlos he como los malos higos, que de malos no se pueden comer.

The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.

18 Y perseguirlos he con espada, con hambre y con pestilencia; y darlos he por escarnio a todos los reinos de la tierra, por maldición, y por espanto, y por silbo, y por afrenta a todas las naciones a las cuales los arrojé.

I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].

19 Porque no oyeron mis palabras, dijo Jehová, que les envié por mis siervos los profetas, madrugando y enviando; y no oísteis, dijo Jehová.

[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.

20 Oíd pues vosotros palabra de Jehová, todos los trasportados que eché de Jerusalem en Babilonia:

[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.

21 Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, de Acab, hijo de Colías, y de Sedecías, hijo de Maasías, que os profetizan en mi nombre falsamente: He aquí que yo los entrego en mano de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y él los herirá delante de vuestros ojos.

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.

22 Y todos los trasportados de Judá que están en Babilonia, tomarán de ellos maldición, diciendo: Póngate, Jehová, como a Sedecías, y como a Acab, los cuales quemó en fuego el rey de Babilonia.

Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’

23 Porque hicieron maldad en Israel, y cometieron adulterio con las mujeres de sus prójimos, y hablaron palabra falsamente en mi nombre, que no les mandé: lo cual yo sé, y soy testigo, dijo Jehová.

They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”

24 Y a Semeías de Nehelam hablarás, diciendo:

[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:

25 Así habló Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel, diciendo: Porque enviaste cartas en tu nombre a todo el pueblo que está en Jerusalem, y a Sofonías sacerdote, hijo de Maasías, y a todos los sacerdotes, diciendo:

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:

26 Jehová te puso por sacerdote en lugar de Joiada sacerdote, para que presidáis en la casa de Jehová sobre todo hombre furioso y profetante, poniéndole en el calabozo, y en el brete.

[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].

27 ¿Y ahora por qué no reprendiste a Jeremías de Anatot, que os profetiza falsamente?

So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?

28 Porque por eso envió a nosotros en Babilonia, diciendo: Largo es el cautiverio: edificád casas, y morád: plantád huertos, y coméd el fruto de ellos.

He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”

29 Y Sofonías sacerdote había leído esta carta a oídos de Jeremías profeta.

[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.

30 Y fue palabra de Jehová a Jeremías, diciendo:

Then Yahweh gave me this message:

31 Envía a toda la transmigración a decir: Así dijo Jehová de Semeías de Nehelam: Porque os profetizó Semeías, y yo no le envié, y os hizo confiar sobre mentira:

“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.

32 Por tanto así dijo Jehová: He aquí que yo visito sobre Semeías de Nehelam, y sobre su generación: no tendrá varón que more entre este pueblo, ni verá aquel bien que yo hago a mi pueblo, dijo Jehová, porque rebelión ha hablado contra Jehová.

So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”