Jeremías 50
1 Palabra que habló Jehová contra Babilonia, contra la tierra de los Caldeos, por mano de Jeremías profeta.
The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Denunciád en las naciones, y hacéd saber: levantád también bandera: hacéd saber, y no encubráis: decíd: Tomada es Babilonia, avergonzado es Bel, deshecho es Merodac, avergonzadas son sus esculturas, quebrados son sus ídolos.
Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.
3 Porque subió contra ella nación de la parte del aquilón, la cual pondrá su tierra en asolamiento; y no habrá quien en ella more: ni hombre ni animal: se movieron, se fueron.
For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.
4 En aquellos días, y en aquel tiempo, dice Jehová, vendrán los hijos de Israel, ellos, y los hijos de Judá juntamente, irán andando y llorando, y buscarán a Jehová su Dios.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
5 Por el camino de Sión preguntarán, allí enderezarán sus rostros: Veníd, y juntáos a Jehová con concierto eterno, que jamás se ponga en el olvido.
They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
6 Ovejas perdidas fueron mi pueblo, sus pastores las hicieron errar, por los montes las descarriaron: anduvieron de monte en collado, olvidáronse de sus majadas,
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
7 Todos los que los hallaban, los comían; y sus enemigos decían: No pecaremos; porque ellos pecaron a Jehová, morada de justicia, y esperanza de sus padres Jehová.
They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
8 Huid de en medio de Babilonia, y salíd de tierra de Caldeos; y sed como los mansos delante del ganado:
Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.
9 Porque he aquí que yo despierto, y hago subir contra Babilonia congregación de grandes naciones de la tierra del aquilón; y desde allí se aparejarán contra ella, y será tomada: sus flechas, como de valiente diestro, no se tornará en vano.
For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.
10 Y la tierra de los Caldeos será por presa: todos los que la saquearen, saldrán hartos, dijo Jehová.
And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.
11 Porque os alegrasteis, porque os gozasteis destruyendo mi heredad; porque os henchisteis como becerra de renuevos, y relinchasteis como caballos:
Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;
12 Vuestra madre se avergonzó mucho, afrentóse la que os engendró. Veis aquí las postrimerías de las naciones, desierto, sequedad, y páramo.
Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.
13 Por la ira de Jehová no se habitará, mas será asolada toda ella: todo hombre que pasare por Babilonia se asombrará, y silbará sobre todas sus plagas.
Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
14 Apercibíos contra Babilonia al derredor: todos los que entesáis arcos tirád contra ella: no os duelan las saetas, porque pecó contra Jehová.
Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.
15 Gritád contra ella en derredor: Dio su mano, caído han sus fundamentos, derribados son sus muros; porque venganza es de Jehová. Tomád venganza de ella: hacéd con ella como ella hizo.
Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.
16 Talád de Babilonia sembrador, y el que tiene hoz en tiempo de la siega: delante de la espada forzadora cada uno volverá el rostro hacia su pueblo, cada uno huirá hacia su tierra.
Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
17 Ganado descarriado ha sido Israel, leones le amontaron: el rey de Asiria lo tragó el primero, este Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, lo desosó el postrero.
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
18 Por tanto así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que yo visito al rey de Babilonia, y a su tierra, como visité al rey de Asiria.
So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.
19 Y tornaré a traer a Israel a su morada, y pacerá al Carmelo, y a Basán; y en el monte de Efraím, y de Galaad se hartará su alma.
And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
20 En aquellos días, y en aquel tiempo, dijo Jehová, la maldad de Israel será buscada, y no parecerá; y los pecados de Judá, y no se hallarán; porque perdonaré a los que yo hubiere dejado.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.
21 Sube contra la tierra de contumaces, contra ella, y contra los moradores de la visitación. Destruye, y mata en pos de ellos, dijo Jehová; y haz conforme a todo lo que yo te he mandado.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.
22 Estruendo de guerra en la tierra, y quebrantamiento grande.
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
23 ¿Cómo fue cortado y quebrado el martillo de toda la tierra? ¿Cómo se tornó Babilonia en desierto entre las naciones?
How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
24 Púsete lazos, y aun fuiste tomada, o! Babilonia, y tú no lo supiste: fuiste hallada, y aun presa, porque provocaste a Jehová.
I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.
25 Abrió Jehová su tesoro, y sacó los vasos de su furor; porque esta es obra de Jehová Dios de los ejércitos en la tierra de Caldeos.
From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.
26 Veníd contra ella desde el cabo de la tierra: abríd sus alfolíes: holládla como a parva, y destruídla: no le queden residuos.
Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.
27 Matád a todos sus novillos, vayan al matadero: ¡ay de ellos! que venido es su día, el tiempo de su visitación.
Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
28 Voz de los que huyen y escapan de la tierra de Babilonia se oye, para que den las nuevas en Sión de la venganza de Jehová nuestro Dios, de la venganza de su templo.
The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.
29 Hacéd juntar sobre Babilonia flecheros, a todos los que entesan arco: asentád campo sobre ella al derredor, no escape de ella ninguno: pagádle según su obra; conforme a todo lo que ella hizo hacéd con ella; porque contra Jehová se ensoberbeció, contra el Santo de Israel.
Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Por tanto sus mancebos caerán en sus plazas, y todos sus hombres de guerra serán talados en aquel día, dijo Jehová.
For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
31 He aquí yo contra ti, o! soberbio, dijo el Señor Jehová de los ejércitos, porque tu día es venido, el tiempo en que te visitaré.
See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.
32 Y el soberbio tropezará, y caerá, y no tendrá quien le levante; y encenderé fuego en sus ciudades, y quemará todos sus al derredores.
And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.
33 Así dijo Jehová de los ejércitos: Oprimidos fueron los hijos de Israel, y los hijos de Judá juntamente; y todos los que los tomaron cautivos, se los retuvieron: no los quisieron soltar.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.
34 El Redentor de ellos es el fuerte, Jehová de los ejércitos es su nombre: pleiteando pleiteará su pleito para hacer quietar la tierra, y turbar los moradores de Babilonia.
Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
35 Espada sobre los Caldeos, dijo Jehová, y sobre los moradores de Babilonia, y sobre sus príncipes, y sobre sus sabios.
A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.
36 Espada sobre los adivinos, y enloquecerán: espada sobre sus valientes, y serán quebrantados.
A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.
37 Espada sobre sus caballos, y sobre sus carros, y sobre todo el vulgo que está en medio de ella; y serán como mujeres: espada sobre sus tesoros, y serán saqueados.
A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.
38 Sequedad sobre sus aguas, y secarse han; porque tierra es de esculturas, y en ídolos enloquecen.
A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
39 Por tanto morarán bestias monteses con gatos: morarán también en ella pollos de avestruz, ni más será poblada para siempre, ni se habitará de generación en generación.
For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.
40 Como en el trastornamiento de Dios a Sodoma, y a Gomorra, y a sus ciudades vecinas, dijo Jehová, no morará allí hombre, ni hijo de hombre la habitará.
As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.
41 He aquí que un pueblo viene de la parte del aquilón, y una gran nación, y muchos reyes se levantarán de los lados de la tierra:
See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
42 Arco y lanza tomarán, serán crueles, y no tendrán piedad: su tropel sonará como la mar, y cabalgarán sobre caballos: apercebirse han como hombre a la pelea contra ti, o! hija de Babilonia.
Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 Oyó su fama el rey de Babilonia, y sus manos se descoyuntaron, angustia le tomó, dolor como de mujer de parto.
The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
44 He aquí que como león subirá de la hinchazón del Jordán a la morada fuerte; porque haré reposo, y hacerle he correr de sobre ella; y al que fuere escogido la encargaré; porque ¿quién es semejante a mí? ¿o quién me emplazará? ¿o quién será aquel pastor que me osará resistir?
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?
45 Por tanto oíd el consejo de Jehová, que ha acordado sobre Babilonia, y sus pensamientos que ha pensado sobre la tierra de los Caldeos. Ciertamente los más pequeños del hato los arrastrarán, y destruirán sus moradas con ellos.
So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
46 Del grito de la toma de Babilonia la tierra tembló; y el clamor se oyó entre las naciones.
At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.
