Jeremías 38
1 Y oyó Sefatías hijo de Matán, y Gedalías hijo de Pasur, y Jucal hijo de Selemías, y Pasur hijo de Malquías, las palabras que Jeremías hablaba a todo el pueblo, diciendo:
At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.
2 Así dijo el SEÑOR: El que se quedare en esta ciudad morirá a cuchillo, o de hambre, o de pestilencia; mas el que saliere a los caldeos vivirá, pues su vida le será por despojo, y vivirá.
Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you and destroy not Israel.
3 Así dijo el SEÑOR: De cierto será entregada esta ciudad en mano del ejército del rey de Babilonia, y la tomará.
The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn you in compassion.
4 Y dijeron los príncipes al rey: Muera ahora este hombre; porque de esta manera hace desmayar las manos de los varones de guerra que han quedado en esta ciudad, y las manos de todo el pueblo, hablándoles tales palabras; porque este hombre no busca la paz de este pueblo, sino el mal.
For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.
5 Y dijo el rey Sedequías: Helo ahí, en vuestras manos está; que el rey no podrá contra vosotros nada.
For you have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant you, and praise.
6 Entonces tomaron ellos a Jeremías, y lo hicieron echar en la mazmorra de Malquías hijo de Hamelec, que estaba en el patio de la guarda; y metieron a Jeremías con sogas. Y en la mazmorra no había agua, sino cieno; y se hundió Jeremías en el cieno.
For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise you, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
7 Y oyendo Ebed-melec, hombre etíope, eunuco que estaba en la casa del rey, que habían puesto a Jeremías en la mazmorra, y estando sentado el rey a la puerta de Benjamín,
For thus says the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice you, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise you: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Ebed-melec salió de la casa del rey, y habló al rey, diciendo:
Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and [the people] shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.
9 Mi señor el rey, mal hicieron estos varones en todo lo que han hecho con Jeremías profeta, al cual hicieron echar en la mazmorra; porque allí se morirá de hambre, pues no hay más pan en la ciudad.
They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Entonces mandó el rey al mismo Ebed-melec etíope, diciendo: Toma en tu poder treinta hombres de aquí, y haz sacar a Jeremías profeta de la mazmorra, antes que muera.
Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.
11 Y tomó Ebed-melec en su poder hombres, y entró a la casa del rey al lugar debajo de la tesorería, y tomó de allí trapos viejos, ropas raídas, y andrajosas, y los echó a Jeremías con sogas en la mazmorra.
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.
12 Y dijo Ebed-melec etíope a Jeremías: Pon ahora esos trapos viejos, raídos, y rotos, bajo los sobacos de tus brazos, debajo de las sogas. Y lo hizo así Jeremías.
And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.
13 Y sacaron a Jeremías con sogas, y lo subieron de la mazmorra; y quedó Jeremías en el patio de la guarda.
Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.
14 Después envió el rey Sedequías, e hizo traer a sí a Jeremías profeta a la tercera entrada que estaba en la Casa del SEÑOR. Y dijo el rey a Jeremías: Te pregunto una palabra, no me encubras ninguna cosa.
I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus says the Lord.
15 Y Jeremías dijo a Sedequías: Si te lo denunciare, ¿no es verdad que me matarás? Y si te diere consejo, no me escucharás.
A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.
16 Y juró el rey Sedequías en secreto a Jeremías, diciendo: Vive el SEÑOR que nos hizo esta alma, que no te mataré, ni te entregaré en mano de estos varones que buscan tu alma.
Thus says the Lord; Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears: for their is a reward for your works; and they shall return from the land of [your] enemies.
17 Entonces dijo Jeremías a Sedequías: Así dijo el SEÑOR Dios de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Si salieres luego a los príncipes del rey de Babilonia, tu alma vivirá, y esta ciudad no será puesta a fuego; y vivirás tú y tu casa;
[There shall be] an dwelling [home] for your children.
18 mas si no salieres a los príncipes del rey de Babilonia, esta ciudad será entregada en mano de los caldeos, y la pondrán a fuego, y tú no escaparás de sus manos.
I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn you me, and I shall turn; for you [are] the Lord my God.
19 Y dijo el rey Sedequías a Jeremías: Me temo a causa de los judíos que se han adherido a los caldeos, que no me entreguen en sus manos y me escarnezcan.
For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed you that I bore reproach from my youth.
20 Y dijo Jeremías: No te entregarán. Oye ahora la voz del SEÑOR que yo te hablo, y tendrás bien, y vivirá tu alma.
Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste [to help] him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.
21 Mas si no quisiereis salir, ésta es la palabra que me ha mostrado el SEÑOR:
Prepare yourself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to your ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which you went, return mourning to your cities.
22 Y he aquí que todas las mujeres que han quedado en casa del rey de Judá, serán sacadas a los príncipes del rey de Babilonia; y ellas mismas dirán: Te han engañado, y han prevalecido contra ti tus amigos; atollaron en el cieno tus pies, se volvieron atrás.
How long, O disgraced daughter, will you turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.
23 Sacarán, pues, todas tus mujeres y tus hijos a los caldeos, y tú no escaparás de sus manos, sino que por mano del rey de Babilonia serás preso, y a esta ciudad quemará a fuego.
For thus says the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
24 Y dijo Sedequías a Jeremías: Nadie sepa estas palabras, y no morirás.
And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with the flock.
25 Y si los príncipes oyeren que yo he hablado contigo, y vinieren a ti y te dijeren: Decláranos ahora, ¿qué hablaste con el rey? No nos lo encubras, y no te mataremos; asimismo lo que te dijo el rey;
For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.
26 Les dirás: Supliqué al rey que no me hiciese tornar a casa de Jonatán para que no me muriese allí.
Therefore I awake, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Y vinieron luego todos los príncipes a Jeremías, y le preguntaron; y él les respondió conforme a todo lo que el rey le había mandado. Con esto se dejaron de él, porque el negocio no se había oído.
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.
28 Y quedó Jeremías en el patio de la guarda hasta el día que fue tomada Jerusalén; y allí estaba cuando Jerusalén fue tomada.
And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.
In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.
But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
And they shall not at all teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
if these ordinances cease from before me, says the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.
Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, says the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, says the Lord, for all that they have done.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.
And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice stones.
And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.
