Jeremiah 12
1 Lord, when I complain to you, you always show yourself to be in the right. Even so I still want to present my case to you. Why is it that wicked people do so well? Why do those who are unfaithful to you live so comfortably?
Vantan-dRehe, ry Iehovà, ndra te ino ty ho nifandierako, f’ie mbe te hisafiry ama’o: Ino ty mampiraorao ty lala’ o lo-tserekeo? Akore te hene mierañerañe o mikitro-draha ratio.
2 You planted them, and they've taken root, grown, and produced fruit. They're always talking about you but they don't think of you, even for a moment.
Tinongi’o iereo, eka, le nivahatse; mitombo, le hehe te mamoa; ie marine azo am-palie, fe lavits’azo an-troke.
3 But you know me, Lord, you see me, and examine what I think about you. Drag off these people like sheep to be slaughtered; keep them apart for the time when they're killed.
Toe arofoana’o iraho ry Iehovà, mahavazohò ahy, naho mitsoke ty troko ke mb’ama’o; aveveo hoe añondry ho lentàñe iereo, avaho ho amy androm-panjamanañey.
4 How long will the land have to mourn and the grass in every field be dried up because of the evil of the people who live there? The animals and birds have died out because the people have said, “He doesn't know what's going to happen to us.”
Ampara’ te ombia i taney te handala, naho o hatae an-kivoke eio te hiheatse? Fonga nasintak’ añe o bibio naho o voroñeo ami’ty hatsivokara’ o mpimoneñeo, ie manao ty hoe: Tsy ho vazoho’e ty figadoña’ay.
5 The Lord says, Once you've become worn out in a foot race against men, how would you win racing against horses? If you trip up in open ground, how would you do in the tangled undergrowth beside the Jordan?
Ihe nitrao-pilay amo mpikovovokeo, le nahamokotse azo, aia ty hifandriadriaha’o amo soavalao? Aa ihe mikorovok’ an-tane manintsiñe, hanoe’o akore te añ’ala-matahetse e Iordane ao?
6 Even your own brothers and your father's family have betrayed you; they have publicly criticized you. Don't trust them when they talk nicely to you!
Ndra o rolongo’oo, naho ty anjomban-droae’o, songa namañahy azo ka, sindre nikorak’ ama’o; ko iantofa’o ndra te anoe’e saontsy mora.
7 I have given up on my people; I have abandoned the nation I chose. I have handed over the ones I truly love to their enemies.
Fa naforintseko ty akibako, fa nifarieko i lovakoy; fa natoloko am-pitan-drafelahi’e i kokoan’ aikoy.
8 They've turned into a wild lion, roaring at me—that's why I hate them.
Fa nanjare liona añ’ala ao amako i lovakoy, kanao nañaoloa’e, hejeko.
9 My people are like a spotted bird of prey to me with other birds of prey circling to attack it. Go and bring all the wild animals to eat up the carcass.
Hoe vorom-banda mpitsatsa amako i lovakoy. Miatreatre añariary aze o vorom-pamaokeo. Akia, fonga atontono o bibin-kivokeo, endeso mb’etoa hamotseke.
10 Many shepherds have come and destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down the crops in my field. They have turned my pleasant land into an empty wasteland.
Mpiarake maro ty nampianto i tanem-balobokoy, fa linialia’ iareo i tetekoy, nanoeñe ratraratra i tondako soay.
11 They have made it into a desert; it mourns before me, lying desolate. The whole country is a wasteland, but no one cares.
Nampangoakoaheñe, Bangiñe! mitoreo aoloko eo; nampibabañoaheñe iaby i taney, amy te tsy haoñe’ ondaty an-troke.
12 The destructive armies have crossed all the bare desert hills for the Lord's sword destroys from one end of the country to the other. No one has any peace.
Fa nivotraham-pampianto ze hene haboañe am-patram-bey añe; amy te mamotseke boak’añ’efe’ i taney añe pak’amy añey ka ty fibara’ Iehovà, fonga tsy aman-kanintsiñe ze atao nofotse.
13 My people sowed wheat but harvested thorns. They wore themselves out but gained no benefit. You should be ashamed of such a poor harvest, caused by the Lord's furious anger.
Nandrarak’ ampemba iereo, fe nitatake fatike; nifanehake, f’ie tsy miraorao; aa le imeñaro ty havokara’ areo, ty amy haviñera’ Iehovà miforoforoy.
14 This is what the Lord says: When it comes these evil nearby nations who attack the country that I gave to my people Israel, I'm going to uproot them from their land. I'm also going to uproot the people of Judah from among them.
Hoe t’Iehovà: Ty amo raty mañohok’ ahio, o mitsapa i lova nampandovaeko ondatiko Israeleio, toe ho voroteko an-tane’ iareo, hombotako am’iereo ty anjomba’ Iehodà.
15 However, once I have uprooted them, I will have mercy on them again, and bring each one back to their property and their land.
Aa ie añe ty nañombotako iareo, le ho tretrezeko indraike; vaho hampoliko, songa mb’an-dova’e, sindre mb’an-tane’e.
16 If they will honestly learn the ways of my people and respect me, making their vows to me, just as they once taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will do well among my people.
Ie amy zao, naho toe ianara’ iareo ty sata’ ondatikoo, ty hifanta ami’ty añarako: Kanao veloñe t’Iehovà, hambañe amy nañanara’ iareo ondatiko ty hifanta amy Baale, le haoreñe aivo’ ondatikoo ka iereo.
17 But if they refuse to obey, then I will not only uproot that nation but I will completely destroy it, declares the Lord.
F’ie naho tsy mañaoñe iereo, le ho voroteko i fifeheañe zay, hombotañe naho harotsake, hoe t’Iehovà.
