Jeremías 17
1 El pecado de Judá se registra con una pluma de hierro, y con la punta afilada de un diamante se corta en sus corazones de piedra y en los cuernos de sus altares para darles una señal.
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
2 Como ellos se acuerdan de sus hijos, ellos recuerdan sus altares y sus pilares de madera debajo de cada árbol ramificado, en las altas colinas y las montañas en el campo.
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
3 Daré tu riqueza y todas tus tiendas para que te quiten en la guerra, por tus pecados en cada parte de tu tierra.
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
4 Y tu mano tendrá que dejar ir la herencia que te di; y te haré un siervo para tus enemigos en una tierra que te es extraña, pues has prendido fuego a mi ira con una llama que seguirá ardiendo para siempre.
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
5 Esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho: Maldito el hombre que pone su fe en el hombre, y hace su brazo su fortaleza, y cuyo corazón se ha apartado del Señor.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
6 Porque él será como el matorral en las tierras altas, y no verá cuando venga el bien; pero su lugar de vida estará en los lugares secos en los terrenos baldíos, en una tierra de sal y sin vegetación.
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
7 Una bendición es para el hombre que pone su fe en el Señor, y cuya esperanza es el Señor.
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
8 Porque él será como un árbol plantado por las aguas, sacando sus raíces por la corriente; no tendrá miedo cuando llegue el calor, pero su hoja será verde; en un año seco no le importará, y seguirá dando frutos.
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
9 El corazón es engañoso y perverso, más que todas las cosas ¿quién puede entenderlo?
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
10 Yo, el Señor, soy él que examina el corazón, pruebo los pensamientos, para que pueda dar a cada hombre la recompensa de sus caminos, de acuerdo con el fruto de sus obras.
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
11 Como la perdiz, incuba huevos que no puso, es un hombre que obtiene riqueza pero no por derecho; antes de que termine la mitad de sus días, abandonará su riqueza, y al final será necio.
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
12 Un asiento glorioso, colocado en lo alto desde el principio, es el lugar de nuestro santuario.
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
13 Oh SEÑOR, esperanza de Israel, todos los que te abandonen serán avergonzados; los que se alejen de ti serán cortados de la tierra, porque han abandonado al Señor, la fuente de las aguas vivas.
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
14 Sáname Señor, y seré sano; sé mi salvador, y seré salvo; porque tú eres mi alabanza.
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
15 Mira, me dicen: ¿Dónde está la palabra del Señor? deja que venga ahora.
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
16 En cuanto a mí, no lo he dicho; Deja que el día de la angustia llegue a ellos rápidamente; y no he estado esperando el día de la muerte; tienes conocimiento de lo que salió de mis labios; hablé ante tu presencia.
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
17 No seas motivo de temor para mí; tú eres mi lugar seguro en el día del mal.
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
18 Sean avergonzados los que me atacan, pero no sea yo avergonzado; que Sean atemorizados, pero que no me atemorice; envía sobre ellos el día del mal y destrúyelos dos veces.
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
19 Esto es lo que el Señor me ha dicho: ve y toma tu lugar en la puerta de entrada. Por donde entran los reyes de Judá y por donde salen, y por todas las puertas de Jerusalén;
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
20 Y diles a ellos: Oye la palabra del Señor, reyes de Judá, y todo el pueblo de Jerusalén que entran por estas puertas.
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
21 Esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho: cuiden su vidas, para que no lleven carga en el día de reposo, para meter por las puertas de Jerusalén;
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
22 Y no saquen cargas de sus casas en el día de reposo, ni hagas ningún trabajo, sino santifica el día de reposo, como di las órdenes a tus padres;
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
23 Pero no prestaron atención y no quisieron escuchar, pero endurecieron sus cuellos y no quisieron obedecer ni recibir corrección.
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
24 Y será que si me escuchas con atención, dice el Señor, y no llevas cargas a través de las puertas de esta ciudad el día de reposo, sino que mantienes el día de reposo santo y no haces trabajo alguno;
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
25 Luego, a través de las puertas de este pueblo, vendrán reyes y príncipes, que se sienten en el trono de David, yendo en carruajes y a caballo, ellos y sus príncipes, y los hombres de Judá y el pueblo de Jerusalén y está ciudad mantendrá su lugar para siempre.
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
26 Y vendrán de las ciudades de Judá, y de los lugares que rodean a Jerusalén, y de la tierra de Benjamín, y de las tierras bajas, y de las montañas, y del sur, con ofrendas quemadas y ofrendas de bestias y ofrendas de comida y perfume y ofrendas de alabanza a la casa del Señor.
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
27 Pero si no me escuchas, para santificar el día de reposo, y traen carga y se pasa a través de las puertas de Jerusalén en el día de reposo; entonces pondré fuego en sus puertas, quemando sus palacios de Jerusalén, y nunca se apagará.
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
