| 1 El Señor me dijo: «Ve a comprar una jarra de loza, y que te acompañen algunos concejales y sacerdotes. | 1 Thus says the Lord: “Go, and take a potter’s earthen bottle from the elders of the people and from the elders of the priests. |
| 2 Sal hacia el valle de Ben Hinnón, por la Puerta de los Cascotes, y proclama allí lo que voy a decirte. | 2 And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is near the entrance to the earthen gate, and there you shall proclaim the words that I will speak to you. |
| 3 Dirás: “Escuchad la palabra del Señor, reyes de Judá y vecinos de Jerusalén: Esto dice el Señor del universo, Dios de Israel: Voy a traer sobre este lugar una catástrofe que, a quien la oiga, le zumbarán los oídos. | 3 And you shall say: Listen to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead an affliction over this place, so much so that it will ring in the ears of all who hear about it. |
| 4 Porque me han abandonado, han hecho extraño este lugar sacrificando en él a dioses extranjeros, que ni ellos ni sus padres conocían, y los reyes de Judá lo han llenado de sangre inocente. | 4 For they have abandoned me, and they have made this place foreign, and they have offered libations in it to foreign gods, whom neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. |
| 5 Han construido recintos sagrados a Baal para quemar en ellos a sus hijos como holocaustos en honor de Baal, cosa que no les mandé, ni les sugerí, ni se me pasó por la cabeza. | 5 And they have built the exalted places of Baal, in order to burn their children with fire as a holocaust to Baal, something that I did not instruct or speak of, nor did it enter into my heart. |
| 6 Por eso llegan días —oráculo del Señor— en que ya no llamarán a este lugar ‘Tófet’ ni ‘valle de Ben Hinnón’, sino ‘valle de la Matanza’. | 6 Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. |
| 7 Haré que fracasen en él los planes de Judá y Jerusalén, los haré caer a espada ante sus enemigos, por mano de los que quieren matarlos, y daré sus cadáveres como pasto a las aves y a las bestias. | 7 And I will scatter the counsel of Judah and of Jerusalem in this place. And I will overthrow them with the sword, in the sight of their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives. And I will give their carcasses to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the land as food. |
| 8 Convertiré esta ciudad en objeto de espanto y de burla: los que pasen junto a ella se espantarán y silbarán a la vista de tantas heridas. | 8 And I will set this city amid stupor and hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and they will hiss over all its wounds. |
| 9 Haré que se coman a sus hijos e hijas, que se coman unos a otros, cuando les aprieten y estrechen el cerco sus enemigos mortales”. | 9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons and with the flesh of their daughters. And each one of them will eat the flesh of his friend during the blockade and the embargo by which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, will enclose them. |
| 10 Después romperás la jarra en presencia de tus acompañantes | 10 And you shall crush the bottle in the sight of the men who will go with you. |
| 11 y les dirás: “Esto dice el Señor del universo: Así romperé yo a este pueblo y a esta ciudad, como se rompe un cacharro de barro sin que se pueda recomponer. Y enterrarán en Tófet por falta de sitio. | 11 And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: In the same way, I will crush this people and this city, just as the potter’s vessel was crushed and cannot be made whole again. And they will be buried at Topheth, because there will be no other place for burial. |
| 12 Así trataré a este lugar y a sus habitantes. Haré de esta ciudad un Tófet —oráculo del Señor—; | 12 So will I do to this place and to its inhabitants, says the Lord. And I will make this city to be like Topheth. |
| 13 las casas de Jerusalén y los palacios reales de Judá serán inmundos como el lugar de Tófet, esas casas en cuyas azoteas quemaban ofrendas con incienso a los astros del cielo y derramaban libaciones a dioses extranjeros”». | 13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean, just like the place of Topheth: all the houses on whose roofs they sacrificed to all the armies of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods.” |
| 14 Jeremías volvió de Tófet, adonde lo había mandado el Señor a profetizar, se plantó en el atrio del templo y dijo a toda la gente: | 14 Then Jeremiah arrived from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the atrium of the house of the Lord, and he said to all the people: |
| 15 «Esto dice el Señor del universo, Dios de Israel: “Voy a traer sobre esta ciudad y su comarca todos los males con que la he amenazado, porque endurecieron su cerviz y no escucharon mis palabras”». | 15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead over this community, and over all its cities, all the evils that I have spoken against it. For they have hardened their necks, so that they would not heed my words.” |
