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Jeremías 19
Reina-Valera 1995
Jeremías 19
Reina-Valera 1995
La señal de la vasija rota
19 Así dijo Jehová: «Ve a comprar al alfarero una vasija de barro, y lleva contigo a algunos de los ancianos del pueblo y de los ancianos de entre los sacerdotes. 2 Sal luego al valle del hijo de Hinom, que está a la entrada de la puerta oriental, y proclama allí las palabras que yo te diré. 3 Dirás: “Oíd palabra de Jehová, reyes de Judá y habitantes de Jerusalén. Esto dice Jehová de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: Yo traigo sobre este lugar un mal tan grande que a todo el que lo oiga le zumbarán los oídos, 4 porque me abandonaron y enajenaron este lugar ofreciendo en él incienso a dioses extraños, que ni ellos habían conocido, ni sus padres, ni los reyes de Judá; y llenaron este lugar de sangre de inocentes. 5 Edificaron lugares altos a Baal, para quemar en el fuego a sus hijos en holocaustos al mismo Baal; cosa que no les mandé ni dije ni me vino al pensamiento. 6 Por tanto, he aquí vienen días, dice Jehová, que este lugar no se llamará más Tofet ni valle del hijo de Hinom, sino valle de la Matanza. 7 Y desvaneceré el consejo de Judá y de Jerusalén en este lugar. Los haré caer a espada delante de sus enemigos y en las manos de los que buscan sus vidas. Daré sus cuerpos para comida a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra. 8 Pondré a esta ciudad por espanto y burla; todo aquel que pase por ella se asombrará y se burlará de su destrucción. 9 Les haré comer la carne de sus hijos y la carne de sus hijas. Cada uno comerá la carne de su amigo, en el asedio y el apuro con que los angustiarán sus enemigos y los que buscan sus vidas.”
10 »Entonces quebrarás la vasija ante los ojos de los hombres que van contigo, 11 y les dirás: “Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: De esta forma quebrantaré a este pueblo y a esta ciudad, como quien quiebra una vasija de barro, que no se puede restaurar más; y en Tofet serán enterrados, porque no habrá otro lugar para enterrar. 12 Así haré a este lugar, dice Jehová, y a sus habitantes; dejaré esta ciudad como a Tofet. 13 Las casas de Jerusalén y las casas de los reyes de Judá serán como el lugar de Tofet, inmundas, por todas las casas sobre cuyos tejados ofrecieron incienso a todo el ejército del cielo, y vertieron libaciones a dioses ajenos.”»
14 Volvió Jeremías de Tofet, adonde Jehová le envió a profetizar, se paró en el atrio de la casa de Jehová y dijo a todo el pueblo: 15 «Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Yo traigo sobre esta ciudad y sobre todas sus aldeas todo el mal que hablé contra ella, porque han endurecido su corazón para no oír mis palabras.»
Jeremías 19
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Jeremías 19
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19 Así dice el Señor: «Ve a un alfarero y cómprale un cántaro de barro. Luego, pide que te acompañen algunos de los jefes del pueblo y de los sacerdotes. 2 Ve al valle de Ben Hinón, que está a la entrada de la puerta de los Alfareros, y proclama allí las palabras que yo te comunicaré. 3 Diles: “Reyes de Judá y habitantes de Jerusalén, escuchen la palabra del Señor. Así dice el Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: ‘Voy a enviar tal calamidad sobre este lugar que a todo el que la oiga le quedará retumbando en los oídos. 4 Porque ellos me han abandonado. Han profanado este lugar, quemando en él incienso a otros dioses que no conocían ni ellos ni sus antepasados ni los reyes de Judá. Además, han llenado de sangre inocente este lugar. 5 Han construido altares paganos en honor de Baal, para quemar a sus hijos en el fuego como holocaustos a Baal, cosa que yo jamás ordené ni mencioné ni jamás me pasó por la mente. 6 Por eso, vendrán días en que este lugar ya no se llamará Tofet ni valle de Ben Hinón, sino valle de la Matanza’, afirma el Señor. 7 ‘En este lugar anularé los planes de Judá y de Jerusalén. Los haré caer a filo de espada delante de sus enemigos, es decir, a manos de los que atentan contra su vida. También dejaré sus cadáveres a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra para que les sirvan de comida. 8 Convertiré a esta ciudad en un lugar desolado y en objeto de burla. Todo el que pase por ella quedará atónito y se burlará de todas sus heridas. 9 Ante el angustioso asedio que les impondrán los enemigos que atentan contra ustedes, haré que se coman la carne de sus propios hijos e hijas y que se devoren entre sí’ ”.
10 »Rompe después el cántaro a la vista de los hombres que te acompañaron 11 y adviérteles que así dice el Señor de los Ejércitos: “Voy a romper a esta nación y a esta ciudad como quien rompe un cántaro de alfarero que ya no se puede reparar; y a falta de otro lugar, enterrarán a sus muertos en Tofet. 12 Así haré con este lugar y con sus habitantes”, afirma el Señor, “esta ciudad quedará tal y como quedó Tofet. 13 Todas las casas de Jerusalén y todos los palacios de los reyes de Judá; es decir, todas esas casas en cuyas azoteas se quemó incienso a todo el ejército del cielo y donde se derramaron ofrendas líquidas a otros dioses, quedarán tan impuras como quedó Tofet”».
14 Cuando Jeremías regresó de Tofet —adonde el Señor lo había enviado a profetizar—, se paró en el atrio del Templo del Señor y dijo a todo el pueblo: 15 «Así dice el Señor de los Ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: “Como esta ciudad y todos sus pueblos vecinos se han obstinado en desobedecer mis palabras, voy a mandarles toda la calamidad que había prometido”».
Jeremiah 19
New International Version
Jeremiah 19
New International Version
19 This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.(A) Take along some of the elders(B) of the people and of the priests 2 and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(C) near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, 3 and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings(D) of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster(E) on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.(F) 4 For they have forsaken(G) me and made this a place of foreign gods(H); they have burned incense(I) in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.(J) 5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children(K) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.(L) 6 So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth(M) or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(N) but the Valley of Slaughter.(O)
7 “‘In this place I will ruin[a] the plans(P) of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies,(Q) at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses(R) as food(S) to the birds and the wild animals. 8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn;(T) all who pass by will be appalled(U) and will scoff because of all its wounds.(V) 9 I will make them eat(W) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies(X) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
10 “Then break the jar(Y) while those who go with you are watching, 11 and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash(Z) this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury(AA) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. 12 This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the Lord. I will make this city like Topheth. 13 The houses(AB) in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled(AC) like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs(AD) to all the starry hosts(AE) and poured out drink offerings(AF) to other gods.’”
14 Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court(AG) of the Lord’s temple and said to all the people, 15 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster(AH) I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked(AI) and would not listen(AJ) to my words.’”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).
Jeremiah 19
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Jeremiah 19
EasyEnglish Bible
A pot that breaks
19 The Lord said to me, ‘Go to a potter. Buy from him a pot that he has made from clay. Take with you some leaders of the people and some leaders of the priests. 2 Go out into Ben-Hinnom Valley, which is near to the “Broken Pots” gate. There you must speak the words that I will tell you.
3 Say, “Hear the Lord's message, you kings of Judah and people who live in Jerusalem. The Lord Almighty, Israel's God says this: Listen to me! I will bring very great trouble to this place. It will be very bad. Everyone who hears about it will be very surprised. 4 That will happen because Judah's people have turned away from me. They worship foreign gods in this place. They have offered sacrifices to those gods. They are gods that their ancestors did not know about. The kings of Judah never knew about them either. In this place, Judah's people have killed people who did not deserve to die. 5 They have built altars here to give honour to Baal. They light fires to give their children to Baal as burnt offerings. I never even thought about it. I never commanded my people to offer those kinds of sacrifices. I never even thought about it. 6 So I tell you this: A time will soon come when people do not call this place Topheth or Ben-Hinnom Valley. Instead, they will call it Death Valley.[a]
7 I will spoil all the ideas that the people of Judah and Jerusalem have. In this place I will put them under the power of their enemies. Their enemies will kill them in war. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds and the wild animals. 8 I will make this city a heap of stones. People will see how disgusting my people are. Everybody who goes near there will be very surprised. They will see all the terrible trouble that has happened to the city and they will insult it. 9 Enemies will make their camp all around the city, so that they can kill the people who live there. The people will not have any food to eat. They will be so hungry that they will eat their own children and they will eat each other.”
10 Then, Jeremiah, take the pot that you bought. Break it in front of all those people who are there with you. 11 Tell them that the Lord Almighty says, “I will destroy this nation and this city. They will be like this broken pot that nobody is able to mend. They will bury lots of dead people here in Topheth. There will be no space left to bury any more people. 12 I tell you this: I will cause this city and its people to become like Topheth. 13 The houses in Jerusalem will be full of dead bodies like Topheth. The palaces of the kings of Judah will be the same. I will do that because people went up on the roofs of their houses to offer sacrifices to the stars. They poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’
14 Then Jeremiah left Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to speak his message. He went to the Lord's temple in the city. He stood in the yard of the temple. He spoke aloud to the people. 15 He said, ‘The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this: “Listen to me! I will soon punish this city and all the towns around it, as I have promised that I will do. I will do it because the people have refused to listen to my message.” ’
Footnotes
- 19:6 See Jeremiah 7:31-32. The Lord had said that his people must not burn their children as offerings to the gods. See Leviticus 18:21. Ben-Hinnom Valley was a place outside the walls of Jerusalem. People put their rubbish there. The Lord was saying that people's dead bodies would also lie there on the ground.
Jeremiah 19
King James Version
Jeremiah 19
King James Version
19 Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
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