I've looked all over to find an answer to this, but I've come up empty-handed. This server was a debian 7 which I believe was upgrade to 8 then 9. I came across some sqweeze bug reports, so I don't know if that is an issue because this is not a clean debian 9 or not.

Ign:1 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB]
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2,479 B]
Hit:6 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:6 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
Hit:7 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:7 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en
Hit:6 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
Ign:6 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
Hit:7 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en
Ign:7 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en
Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages [9,500 kB]
Err:7 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main Translation-en
BZ2_bzread: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_main_i18n_Translation-en.bz2 Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)
Fetched 120 kB in 3s (38.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dis...Translation-en BZ2_bzread: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_main_i18n_Translation-en.bz2 Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Googling this error suggests this fix:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/3585...or-status-file

Basically, try to delete the offending file and try again.

Note that this doesn't actually delete the file. It just moves it to the /root/ directory. Just in case it's needed, but since it's corrupt it almost certainly won't be useful for anything.