Yeremiya 12
1 Yehova, Inu mumakhala wokhoza nthawi zonse ndikati nditsutsane nanu. Komabe ndikufuna kuyankhula nanu za mlandu wanga. Chifukwa chiyani anthu oyipa zinthu zimawayendera bwino? Chifukwa chiyani anthu achinyengo amakhala pabwino?
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
2 Inu munawadzala ndipo anamera mizu; amakula ndi kubereka zipatso. Dzina lanu limakhala pakamwa pawo nthawi zonse, koma mitima yawo imakhala kutali ndi Inu.
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
3 Koma Inu Yehova, ine mumandidziwa; mumandiona ndipo mumayesa zolingalira zanga. Akokeni anthu oyipawo ngati nkhosa zokaphedwa! Ayikeni padera mpaka tsiku loti akaphedwe!
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
4 Kodi dziko lidzakhala likulirabe mpaka liti ndipo udzu mʼmunda uliwonse udzakhalabe ofota mpaka liti? Nyama ndi mbalame kulibiretu chifukwa anthu amene amakhalamo ndi oyipa. Iwo amati: “Yehova sangathe kuona ntchito zathu.”
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
5 Yehova anayankha kuti, “Ngati kukutopetsa kuthamanga pamodzi ndi anthu nanga ungapikisane bwanji ndi akavalo? Ngati ukupunthwa ndi kugwa pa malo abwino, udzatha bwanji kuthamanga mʼnkhalango za ku Yorodani?
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
6 Ngakhale abale ako ndi anansi akuwukira, onsewo amvana zokuyimba mlandu. Usawakhulupirire, ngakhale ayankhule zabwino ndi iwe.
Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
7 “Ine ndawasiya anthu anga; anthu amene ndinawasankha ndawataya. Ndapereka okondedwa anga mʼmanja mwa adani awo.
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
8 Anthu amene ndinawasankha asanduka ngati mkango wa mʼnkhalango. Akundibangulira mwaukali; nʼchifukwa chake Ine ndikudana nawo.
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
9 Anthu anga amene ndinawasankha asanduka ngati mbalame yolusa yamawangamawanga imene akabawi ayizinga. Pitani, kasonkhanitseni nyama zakuthengo. Mubwere nazo kuti zidzadye mbalameyo.
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
10 Abusa ambiri anawononga munda wanga wa mpesa, anapondereza munda wanga; munda wanga wabwino uja anawusandutsa chipululu.
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
11 Unawusandutsadi chipululu. Ukanali wokhawokha chomwecho ukundilirira Ine. Dziko lonse lasanduka chipululu chifukwa palibe wolisamalira.
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
12 Anthu onse owononga abalalikira ku zitunda zonse za mʼchipululu. Yehova watuma ankhondo ake kudzawatha kuyambira kumalire ena a dziko mpaka ku malire enanso a dziko, ndipo palibe amene adzakhale pa mtendere.
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
13 Anthu anafesa tirigu koma anatuta minga; anadzitopetsa kugwira ntchito koma osapeza phindu lililonse. Choncho mudzachita manyazi ndi zokolola zanu chifukwa cha mkwiyo wa Yehova.”
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
14 “Anthu oyipa oyandikana ndi anthu anga Aisraeli, akuwalanda Aisraeliwo dziko, cholowa chimene ndinawapatsa. Nʼchifukwa chake ndidzawachotsa mʼdziko limenelo, ndipo ndidzachotsa banja la Yuda pakati pawo.
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
15 Komabe nditawachotsa, ndidzawachitiranso chifundo, ndipo ndidzabwezera aliyense cholowa chake ndi dziko lake.
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
16 Ndipo ngati iwo adzaphunzira bwino njira za anthu anga ndi kulumbira mʼdzina langa, namanena kuti, ‘Pali Yehova wamoyo,’ monga iwo anaphunzitsira anthu anga kulumbira mʼdzina la Baala, Ine ndidzawakhazikitsa pakati pa anthu anga.
And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
17 Koma ngati mtundu wina uliwonse sudzamvera, Ine ndidzawuchotsa ndi kuwuwonongeratu,” akutero Yehova.
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
