Jeremiah 17
1 [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!
El pecado de Judá escrito está con cincel de hierro, y con punta de diamante; esculpido está en la tabla de su corazón, y en los cuernos de vuestros altares;
2 [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.
para que sus hijos se acuerden de sus altares y de sus bosques, junto a los árboles verdes y en los collados altos.
3 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.
¡Mi montañés! En el campo son tus riquezas; todos tus tesoros daré a despojo, por el pecado de tus altos en todos tus términos.
4 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.”
Y habrá remisión en ti de tu heredad, la cual yo te di, y te haré servir a tus enemigos en tierra que no conociste; porque fuego habéis encendido en mi furor, para siempre arderá.
5 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.
Así dijo el SEÑOR: Maldito el varón que confía en el hombre, y pone carne por su brazo, y su corazón se aparta del SEÑOR.
6 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.
Pues será como la retama en el desierto, y no verá cuando viniere el bien; sino que morará en los sequedales en el desierto, en tierra salada y deshabitada.
7 But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
Bendito el varón que se fía en el SEÑOR, y cuya confianza es el SEÑOR.
8 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.
Porque él será como el árbol plantado junto a las aguas, que junto a la corriente echará sus raíces, y no verá cuando viniere el calor, y su hoja será verde; y en el año de sequía no se fatigará, ni dejará de hacer fruto.
9 Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
Engañoso es el corazón más que todas las cosas, y perverso; ¿quién lo conocerá?
10 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.”
Yo soy el SEÑOR, que escudriño el corazón, que pruebo los riñones, para dar a cada uno según su camino, según el fruto de sus obras.
11 [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.
Como la perdiz que hurta lo que no parió, es el que allega riquezas, y no con justicia; en medio de sus días las dejará, y en su postrimería será incipiente.
12 Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
El trono de gloria, altura desde el principio, es el lugar de nuestra santificación.
13 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.
¡Oh esperanza de Israel! SEÑOR, todos los que te dejan, serán avergonzados; y los que de mí se apartan, serán escritos en el polvo; porque dejaron la vena de aguas vivas, al SEÑOR.
14 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.
Sáname, oh SEÑOR, y seré sano; sálvame, y seré salvo, porque tú eres mi alabanza.
15 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]
He aquí que ellos me dicen: ¿Dónde está la palabra del SEÑOR? Venga ahora.
16 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].
Mas yo no me entremetí a ser pastor en pos de ti, ni deseé día de calamidad, tú lo sabes. Lo que de mi boca ha salido, en tu presencia ha salido.
17 Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
No me seas tú por espanto; esperanza mía eres tú en el día malo.
18 [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!
Avergüéncense los que me persiguen, y no me avergüence yo; asómbrense ellos, y no me asombre yo; trae sobre ellos día malo, y quebrántalos con doble quebrantamiento.
19 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.
Así me dijo el SEÑOR: Ve, y ponte a la puerta de los hijos del pueblo, por la cual entran y salen los reyes de Judá, y a todas las puertas de Jerusalén,
20 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!
y diles: Oíd la palabra del SEÑOR, reyes de Judá, y todo Judá, y todos los moradores de Jerusalén que entráis por estas puertas.
21 He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
Así dijo el SEÑOR: Guardaos por vuestras vidas, y no traigáis carga en el día del sábado, para meter por las puertas de Jerusalén;
22 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,
ni saquéis carga de vuestras casas en el día del sábado, ni hagáis obra alguna; mas santificad el día del sábado, como mandé a vuestros padres;
23 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.
los cuales no oyeron, ni inclinaron su oído, antes endurecieron su cerviz, para no oír, ni recibir corrección.
24 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,
Porque será, si vosotros me oyereis, dijo el SEÑOR, no metiendo carga por las puertas de esta ciudad en el día del sábado, sino que santificareis el día del sábado, no haciendo en él ninguna obra;
25 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.
Entrarán por las puertas de esta ciudad, los reyes y los príncipes, que se sientan sobre el trono de David, en carros y en caballos, ellos y sus príncipes, los varones de Judá, y los moradores de Jerusalén; y esta ciudad será habitada para siempre.
26 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.
Y vendrán de las ciudades de Judá, y de los alrededores de Jerusalén, y de tierra de Benjamín, y de los campos, y del monte, y del austro, trayendo holocausto y sacrificio, y ofrenda e incienso, y trayendo sacrificio de alabanza a la Casa del SEÑOR.
27 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.”’”
Mas si no me oyereis para santificar el día del sábado, y para no traer carga ni meterla por las puertas de Jerusalén en día de sábado, yo haré encender fuego en sus puertas, y consumirá los palacios de Jerusalén, y no se apagará.
