Jeremias 27

1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.

Cuando Sedequías, hijo de Josías, rey de Judá, se convirtió en rey por primera vez, esta palabra vino a Jeremías de parte del Señor, diciendo:

2 Proclaim you among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.

Esto es lo que el Señor me ha dicho: hazte bandas y yugos y colócalos en tu cuello;

3 For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.

Y envíalos al rey de Edom, al rey de Moab, al rey de los hijos de Amón, al rey de Tiro y al rey de Sidón, por medio de sus mensajeros que vienen a Jerusalén, a ver a Sedequías, rey de Judá;

4 In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.

Y dales órdenes de decirles a sus amos: Esto es lo que el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, ha dicho: di a tus amos:

5 They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

He hecho la tierra, y el hombre y la bestia sobre la faz de la tierra, por mi gran poder y por mi brazo extendido; y se lo daré a cualquiera a mi gusto.

6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.

Y ahora he entregado todas estas tierras en manos de Nabucodonosor, el rey de Babilonia, mi siervo; y le he dado las bestias del campo para su uso.

7 All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.

Y todas las naciones serán siervos de él, y de su hijo, y del hijo de su hijo, hasta que llegue el momento de que su tierra sea vencida, y luego varias naciones y grandes reyes la tomarán para su uso.

8 Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.

Y sucederá que, si alguna nación no sierve de este mismo Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, y no pone su cuello bajo el yugo del rey de Babilonia, entonces enviaré un castigo sobre esa Nación, dice el Señor, por la espada, hambre y por pestilencia, hasta que yo los haya entregado en sus manos.

9 For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.

Y no deben prestar atención a sus profetas ni a sus adivinos, ni a sus intérpretes de sueños, ni a los hechiceros que pretenden ver el futuro y que les dicen: No se sometan al rey de Babilonia.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.

Porque les dicen palabras falsas, para que los puedan enviar lejos de su tierra, y para que puedas ser expulsado por mí y llegar a la destrucción.

11 Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

Pero en cuanto a esa nación que pone su cuello bajo el yugo del rey de Babilonia y se convierte en su sirviente, dejaré que esa nación continúe en su tierra, y la cultive y viviendo en ella, dice el Señor.

12 Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,

Y dije todo esto a Sedequías, rey de Judá, diciendo: “Pongan sus cuellos bajo el yugo del rey de Babilonia y conviértanse en sus siervos y su pueblo, para que puedan guardar sus vidas”.

13 by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.

¿Por qué deseas la muerte, tú y tu pueblo, a espada, de hambre, y por enfermedad, como el Señor ha dicho de la nación que no se convierta en el siervo del rey de Babilonia?

14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

Y no debes escuchar a los profetas que te dicen: No se sometan en siervos del rey de Babilonia, porque lo que dicen no es cierto.

15 and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

Porque no los he enviado, dice el Señor, pero ellos dicen lo que es falso en mi nombre, para que yo pueda enviarlos por la fuerza, causando destrucción sobre ustedes y sobre sus profetas.

16 Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

Y dije a los sacerdotes y a todo el pueblo: Esto es lo que ha dicho el Señor: No prestes atención a las palabras de tus profetas que te dicen: Mira, dentro de muy poco tiempo, las vasijas de la casa del Señor volverán de Babilonia, porque lo que te dicen es falso.

17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.

No les prestes atención; conviértanse en siervos del rey de Babilonia y manténganse lejos de la muerte; ¿por qué dejar que este pueblo sea un montón de ruinas?

18 Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.

Pero si son profetas, y si la palabra del Señor está con ellos, ahora pidan al Señor de los ejércitos que los vasos que aún están en la casa del Señor y en la casa del rey de Judá y en Jerusalén, no sean llevados a Babilonia.

19 And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.

Porque esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho sobre el resto de los vasos que todavía están en esta ciudad,

20 In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

Que Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, no se llevó, cuando tomó a Jeconías, hijo de Joacim, rey de Judá, prisionero de Jerusalén a Babilonia, con todos los grandes hombres de Judá y Jerusalén;

21 on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.

Porque esto es lo que el Señor de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel, ha dicho acerca del resto de los vasos en la casa del Señor y en la casa del rey de Judá y en Jerusalén:

22 A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!

Serán llevados a Babilonia, y allí estarán hasta el día en que les envíe su castigo, dice el Señor. Luego los tomaré y los pondré en su lugar.

23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24 They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.

25 The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.

26 For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.

27 Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.

28 A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.

29 Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.

31 Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.

32 And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.

33 Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.

34 But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

35 and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;

36 a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:

37 a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,

38 and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.

39 Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.

41 Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:

42 [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.

44 Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.

46 For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.