Ezequiel 16

1 Y vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo:

Another message from the Lord came to me, saying,

2 Hijo de hombre, notifica a Jerusalén sus abominaciones,

“Son of man, challenge Jerusalem over her disgusting practices.

3 Y di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS sobre Jerusalén: Tu habitación y tu raza fue de la tierra de Canaán; tu padre amorreo, y tu madre hetea.

Tell Jerusalem that this is what the Lord God says to her: You really are a Canaanite, both by your birth and parentage. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.

4 En cuanto a tu nacimiento, el día que naciste no fue cortado tu ombligo, ni fuiste lavada con aguas para ablandarte, ni salada con sal, ni fuiste envuelta con fajas.

On the day you were born your cord was not cut, and you weren't washed to clean you up, you weren't rubbed with salt, and you weren't wrapped in cloths.

5 No hubo ojo que se compadeciese de ti, para hacerte algo de esto, teniendo de ti misericordia; sino que fuiste echada sobre la faz del campo, con menosprecio de tu vida, en el día que naciste.

No one looked on you with love to do anything like this for you; no one showed any kind of care for you. No, you were thrown away in a field, abandoned and despised from the day you were born.

6 Y yo pasé junto a ti, y te vi sucia en tus sangres, y te dije: En tus sangres vivirás; te dije: En tus sangres vivirás.

But I passed by and saw you kicking, covered in your own blood. As you were lying there in your blood I told you, ‘I want you to live!’ I said to you right there, ‘I want you to live!’

7 En millares, como la hierba del campo, te puse, y fuiste aumentada y engrandecida, y viniste a ser adornada grandemente; los pechos te crecieron, y tu pelo reverdeció; mas tú estabas desnuda y descubierta.

I help you to grow like a plant in the field. You grew up into a beautiful young woman. Your breasts developed and your body hair grew, and you were completely naked.

8 Y pasé yo junto a ti, y te miré, y he aquí que tu tiempo era tiempo de amores; y extendí mi manto sobre ti, y cubrí tus vergüenzas; y te di juramento, y entré en pacto contigo, dijo el Señor DIOS, y fuiste mía;

When I passed by again, I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for lovemaking. So I spread my robe over you and covered up your naked body. I committed myself to you and made a solemn agreement with you, and made you mine, declares the Lord God.

9 y te lavé con aguas, y lavé tus sangres de encima de ti, y te ungí con aceite;

Then I washed you with water, cleaned off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

10 y te vestí de bordado, y te calcé de tejón, y te ceñí de lino, y te vestí de seda.

I put a beautifully embroidered dress on you and gave you fine leather sandals. I clothed you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

11 Y te atavíe con ornamentos, y puse ajorcas en tus brazos, y collar a tu cuello;

I gave you jewelry—I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.

12 y puse cerquillos sobre tus narices, y zarcillos en tus orejas, y diadema de hermosura en tu cabeza.

I put a ring in your nose and earrings on your ears, and placed a beautiful crown on your head.

13 Y fuiste adornada de oro y de plata, y tu vestido fue lino, y seda, y bordado; comiste flor de harina de trigo, y miel, y aceite; y fuiste hermoseada en extremo, y has prosperado hasta reinar.

You wore gold and silver jewelry, and your clothes were made of the finest linen, expensive fabric, and embroidered cloth. You ate bread made with the best flour, and honey and olive oil. You grew even more beautiful and became a queen.

14 Y te salió renombre entre los gentiles a causa de tu hermosura; porque era perfecta, a causa de mi hermosura que yo puse sobre ti, dijo el Señor DIOS.

You were famous around the world because of your beauty, for I used my majestic power to make you so wonderful, declares the Lord God.

15 Mas confiaste en tu hermosura, y fornicaste a causa de tu renombre, y derramaste tus fornicaciones a cuantos pasaron; suya eras.

You were so proud of your beauty that you were unfaithful to me. You thought that because you were so famous you could prostitute yourself and sleep with anyone who passed by. They took your beautiful body for themselves.

16 Y tomaste de tus vestidos, e hiciste altares de diversos colores, y fornicaste en ellos; cosa semejante no vendrá, ni será así.

You made yourself colorful pagan shrines out of the clothes I'd given you, and there you acted as a prostitute. Things like this have never happened before, and they should never happen in the future!

17 Tomaste asimismo los vasos de tu hermosura de mi oro y de mi plata, que yo te había dado, y te hiciste imágenes de hombre, y fornicaste con ellas.

You also used the beautiful gold and silver jewelry I gave you to make male idols and you prostituted yourself with them.

18 Y tomaste tus vestidos de diversos colores, y las cubriste; y mi aceite y mi perfume pusiste delante de ellas.

You used your embroidered clothes to dress them, and you placed before them my olive oil and incense.

19 Mi pan también, que yo te había dado, la flor de la harina, y el aceite, y la miel, con que yo te mantuve, pusiste delante de ellas para olor suave; y fue así, dijo el Señor DIOS.

You presented the food I had given you as an offering for them to accept —bread made from the best flour, olive oil, and honey that I had provided for you to eat. That's exactly what you did, declares the Lord God.

20 Además de esto, tomaste tus hijos y tus hijas que me habías engendrado, y los sacrificaste a ellas para consumación. ¿Es poco, esto de tus fornicaciones?

You sacrificed your sons and daughters—the children you had for me—offering them as food for idols to eat. Wasn't your prostitution evil enough?

21 Y sacrificaste mis hijos, y los diste a ellas para que los hiciesen pasar por el fuego a ellas.

You slaughtered my children, sacrificing them to idols.

22 Y con todas tus abominaciones y tus fornicaciones, ¿no te has acordado de los días de tu mocedad, cuando estabas desnuda y descubierta? Envuelta en tus sangres estabas.

While you were busy with all your disgusting practices and your prostitution, you forgot about the time when you were young, completely naked and lying there kicking in your own blood.

23 Y fue que después de toda tu maldad (¡ay, ay de ti! Dijo el Señor DIOS),

Disaster is coming! Disaster is coming on you, declares the Lord God. As well as all the other evil things you did,

24 te edificaste alto, y te hiciste altar en todas las plazas;

you built yourself a pagan shrine, a high place of idol worship on every public square in the city.

25 en toda cabeza de camino edificaste tu altar, y tornaste abominable tu hermosura, y abriste tus piernas a cuantos pasaban, y multiplicaste tus fornicaciones.

You made yourselves high places of idol worship at the top of every street; you degraded yourself, offering your beautiful body to anyone who passed by, opening your legs for them, becoming more and more promiscuous.

26 Y fornicaste con los hijos de Egipto, tus vecinos, gruesos de carnes; y aumentaste tus fornicaciones para enojarme.

You gave yourself as a prostitute to your Egyptian neighbors with their large sexual organs, making me angry as you became even more promiscuous.

27 Por tanto, he aquí que yo extendí sobre ti mi mano, y disminuí tu libertad, y te entregué a la voluntad de las hijas de los filisteos que te aborrecen, las cuales se avergüenzan de tu camino tan deshonesto.

So I acted to reduce my blessings to you. I let your enemies the Philistines do what they wanted to you. Even they were embarrassed at your immorality.

28 Fornicaste también con los hijos de Assur por no haberte saciado; y fornicaste con ellos, y tampoco te saciaste.

Because you weren't satisfied you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians. But even then you weren't satisfied.

29 Multiplicaste asimismo tu fornicación en la tierra de Canaán y de los caldeos; ni tampoco con esto te saciaste.

So you took your promiscuous behavior to Babylonia, the country of merchants, but even then you weren't satisfied!

30 ¡Cuán inconstante es tu corazón, dijo el Señor DIOS, habiendo hecho todas estas cosas, obras de una poderosa ramera,

You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord God.

31 edificando tus altares en cabeza de todo camino, y haciendo tus altares en todas las plazas! Y no fuiste semejante a ramera, menospreciando el salario,

Actually you weren't even a normal prostitute when you built yourselves pagan shrines at the top of every street and high places of idol worship on every public square—because you refused to be paid for your services!

32 sino como mujer adúltera, que en lugar de su marido recibe a ajenos.

You're a wife that loves adultery! You sleep with strangers instead of your husband!

33 A todas las rameras dan dones; mas tú diste tus dones a todos tus enamorados; y les diste presentes, para que entrasen a ti de todas partes por tus fornicaciones.

Normally all prostitutes are paid, but you were the one giving gifts to all your lovers. You even bribed them to come from all around and have sex with you.

34 Y ha sido en ti al contrario de las mujeres en tus fornicaciones, ni nunca después de ti será así fornicado; porque en dar tú dones, y no ser dados dones a ti, ha sido al contrario.

So you're the opposite of other prostitutes. No one comes to you asking for sex, and you pay the prostitute's fee instead of receiving it. You're the exact opposite!

35 Por tanto, ramera, oye palabra del SEÑOR:

So, you prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord!

36 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Por cuanto han sido descubiertas tus vergüenzas, y tu confusión ha sido manifestada a tus enamorados en tus fornicaciones; y a los ídolos de tus abominaciones, y en la sangre de tus hijos, los cuales les diste;

This is what the Lord God says: Because you were so crazy with desire you stripped yourself naked and committed adultery with your lovers and with all your disgusting idols, and because you killed your children as sacrifices to those idols,

37 por tanto, he aquí que yo junto todos tus enamorados con los cuales tomaste placer, y todos los que amaste, con todos los que aborreciste; y los reuniré contra ti alrededor, y les descubriré tu vergüenza, y verán toda tu desnudez.

I'm going to bring together all the lovers you went to bed with, whether you loved them or hated them, and I will have them gather from everywhere around and I will strip you as they watch so they will see you totally naked.

38 Y yo te juzgaré por las leyes de las adúlteras, y de las que derraman sangre; y te daré en sangre de ira y de celo.

I will impose on you the punishment for women who commit adultery and those who murder; you will be punished in passionate anger.

39 Y te entregaré en mano de ellos; y destruirán tu alto, y derribarán tus altares, y te harán desnudar de tus ropas, y se llevarán los vasos de tu gloria, y te dejarán desnuda y descubierta.

Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will demolish your pagan shrines and destroy your high places of idol worship. They will strip you of your clothes, remove your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.

40 Y harán subir contra ti reunión de gente, y te apedrearán con piedras, y te atravesarán con sus espadas.

They will come with a mob to attack you. They will stone you and chop you into pieces with their swords.

41 Y quemarán tus casas a fuego, y harán en ti juicios a ojos de muchas mujeres; y te haré cesar de ser ramera, ni tampoco darás más don.

They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women watch. I will stop your prostitution, and you won't ever pay your lovers again.

42 Y haré reposar mi ira sobre ti, y se apartará de ti mi celo, y descansaré de enojarme más.

Then I will finish being jealous and furious with you. I will calm down and won't be angry any more.

43 Por cuanto no te acordaste de los días de tu juventud, y me provocaste a ira en todo esto, por eso, he aquí yo también he tornado tu camino sobre tu cabeza, dijo el Señor DIOS; pues ni aun has pensado sobre todas tus abominaciones.

Since you didn't remember how I looked after you when you were young, but made me angry with all the things that you did, I will make sure you experience the results of what you've done, declares the Lord God. For this immorality was in addition to all the other disgusting things you did, wasn't it?

44 He aquí, que todo proverbista hará de ti proverbio, diciendo: Como la madre, tal su hija.

Everyone who likes to use proverbs will quote this one about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

45 Hija de tu madre eres tú, que desechó a su marido y a sus hijos; y hermana de tus hermanas eres tú, que desecharon a sus maridos y a sus hijos; vuestra madre fue hetea, y vuestro padre el amorreo.

You are the daughter of your mother who detested her husband and children. You are just like her! You are the sister of your sisters, just like them who detested their husbands and children. In fact your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.

46 Y tu hermana mayor es Samaria con sus hijas, la cual habita a tu mano izquierda; y tu hermana la menor que tú es Sodoma con sus hijas, la cual habita a tu mano derecha.

Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived south of you with her daughters.

47 Y aun no anduviste en sus caminos, ni hiciste según sus abominaciones; antes, como si esto fuera poco y muy poco, antes te corrompiste más que ellas en todos tus caminos.

You didn't just follow their ways and do the same disgusting things they did, you very quickly became even worse than them.

48 Vivo yo, dijo el Señor DIOS, Sodoma tu hermana, con sus hijas, nunca hizo como hiciste tú y tus hijas.

As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters didn't ever do what you and your daughters have done.

49 He aquí que ésta fue la maldad de Sodoma tu hermana: soberbia, saciedad de pan, y abundancia de ociosidad tuvo ella y sus hijas; y no corroboró la mano del afligido y del menesteroso.

The sins of your sister Sodom were these: She and her daughters were proud, greedy, and lazy. They didn't help the poor and those in need.

50 Y se llenaron de soberbia, e hicieron abominación delante de mí, y cuando lo vi las quité.

They became arrogant and did disgusting things in my presence. So I got rid of them when I saw this.

51 Y Samaria no cometió ni la mitad de tus pecados; porque tú multiplicaste tus abominaciones más que ellas, y has justificado a tus hermanas con todas tus abominaciones que hiciste.

Samaria didn't sin half as badly as you did. You have done far more disgusting things than they did. In fact, all the revolting things you've done make your sisters look good!

52 Tú también, que juzgaste a tus hermanas, lleva tu vergüenza en tus pecados que hiciste, más abominables que los de ellas; más justas son que tú; avergüénzate, pues, tú también, y lleva tu confusión, pues que has justificado a tus hermanas.

Now you're going to have to put up with your shame, since by your disgraceful sins you made them seem far better. Compared to you they look good! Now you too have to put up with your shame and disgrace because you've made your sisters look as if they were good.

53 Yo, pues, haré tornar sus cautivos, los cautivos de Sodoma y de sus hijas, y los cautivos de Samaria y de sus hijas, y los cautivos de tus cautiverios entre ellas,

Even so I'm going to bring Sodom and her daughters back from exile, and Samaria and her daughters too. I will bring you back together with them.

54 para que tú lleves tu confusión, y te avergüences de todo lo que has hecho, siéndoles tú motivo de consuelo.

In this way you will have to put up with your disgrace and be ashamed of all the bad things you did that made them feel better about themselves.

55 Y tus hermanas, Sodoma con sus hijas y Samaria con sus hijas, volverán a su primer estado; tú también y tus hijas volveréis a vuestro primer estado.

Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will be restored to what they were before. You and your daughters will also be restored to what you were before.

56 Sodoma, tu hermana, no fue nombrada en tu boca en el tiempo de tus soberbias,

Didn't you mock your sister Sodom when you were feeling proud,

57 antes que tu maldad se descubriese, como en el tiempo de la vergüenza de las hijas de Siria y de todas las hijas de los filisteos alrededor, que te menosprecian en contorno.

before you were shown to be so wicked yourselves? Of course now you are mocked by the Edomites and the surrounding nations, as well as by the Philistines. Everyone around you looks down on you.

58 Tú has llevado tu lujuria y tus abominaciones, dijo el SEÑOR.

You will have to experience the consequences of your immorality and your disgusting practices, declares the Lord.

59 Porque así dijo el Señor DIOS: ¿Haré yo contigo como tú hiciste, que menospreciaste el juramento para invalidar el pacto?

This is what the Lord God says: I'm going to punish you according to your sins, because you treated the promise you made with contempt by breaking the agreement.

60 Antes yo tendré memoria de mi pacto que concerté contigo en los días de tu juventud, y te confirmaré un pacto sempiterno.

But I won't forget the agreement I made with you when you were young, and I will make an everlasting agreement with you.

61 Y te acordarás de tus caminos y te avergonzarás, cuando recibás a tus hermanas, las mayores que tú con las menores que tú, las cuales yo te daré por hijas, mas no por tu pacto.

Then you will remember the way you are meant to live and be ashamed when you meet your older and younger sisters when they return to you. I will give them to you as daughters, even though this was not part of our original agreement.

62 Y confirmaré mi pacto contigo, y sabrás que yo soy el SEÑOR;

This is how I will endorse my agreement with you, and you will know that I am the Lord,

63 Para que te acuerdes, y te avergüences, y nunca más abras la boca a causa de tu vergüenza, cuando me aplacare para contigo de todo lo que hiciste, dijo el Señor DIOS.

so that you will remember and be ashamed, and won't ever defend your disgraceful behavior when I forgive you for everything you've done, declares the Lord God.”