Jeremiah 12
1 Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
Gerecht bist Du, Jehovah, wenn ich mit Dir hadere, doch will ich von Gerichten mit Dir reden. Warum gelingt der Weg der Ungerechten? behaglich sind alle Treulosen, die treulos handeln.
2 You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
Du pflanztest sie, auch wurzeln sie. Sie gehen und bringen auch Frucht. Nah bist Du ihrem Mund, und fern von ihren Nieren.
3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
Du aber kennst mich, Jehovah, Du siehst mich und prüfst mein Herz bei Dir. Reiße sie weg wie Schafe zur Schlachtung und heilige sie für den Tag des Würgens!
4 This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
Wie lange soll das Land trauern und das Kraut auf allem Felde verdorren ob der Bosheit derer, die darin wohnen, Vieh und Gevögel weggerafft werden, weil sie sagen: Er sieht nicht auf unser Letztes.
5 [Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
Wenn du mit Fußgängern läufst, und sie dich ermüden, wie willst du es Rossen gleichtun? und wenn im Land des Friedens du vertraust, und was tust du, bei des Jordans Hochmut?
6 [Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
Denn auch deine Brüder und deines Vaters Haus, auch sie wurden dir treulos, auch sie riefen vollauf dir nach. Glaube ihnen nicht, wenn Gutes sie mit dir reden.
7 I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
Mein Haus habe Ich verlassen, Mein Erbe hingegeben, habe das Liebste Meiner Seele in die Hand ihrer Feinde gegeben.
8 My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
Mein Erbe ist Mir wie der Löwe im Wald geworden, gibt seine Stimme wider Mich hervor, darum hasse Ich es.
9 My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
Ist ein buntfarbiger Raubvogel Mir Mein Erbe? Raubvögel ringsum wider dasselbe. Geht, sammelt alles wilde Tier des Feldes! Bringt es her zum Fraß.
10 Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
Viele Hirten haben Meinen Weinberg verdorben, Meinen Teil zertreten, sie machen den Teil Meines Begehrens zur Wüste der Einöde.
11 They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
Zur Verwüstung hat man ihn gemacht. Er trauert vor Mir, verwüstet und wüste gelegt ist das ganze Land; denn kein Mann ist da, der es zu Herzen nimmt.
12 The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
Über alle Anhöhen in der Wüste kommen die Verheerer; denn Jehovahs Schwert frißt vom Landesende und bis zum Landesende. Kein Fleisch hat Frieden.
13 [It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
Weizen säen sie und ernten Dornen, mühen sich ab und haben keinen Nutzen. Und ihr schämt euch eures Ertrages vor der Entbrennung von Jehovahs Zorn.
14 This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
So spricht Jehovah: Über alle Meine bösen Nachbarn, die das Erbe anrühren, das Ich Mein Volk Israel erben ließ: Siehe, Ich reiße sie aus ihrem Boden und das Haus Jehudah reiße Ich aus ihrer Mitte.
15 But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
Und soll geschehen, wenn Ich sie ausgerissen habe, daß Ich Mich zurückwende und ihrer Mich erbarme, und sie zurückbringe; jeden Mann in sein Erbe und jeden Mann in sein Land.
16 And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
Und soll geschehen, wenn sie die Wege Meines Volkes lernen, zu schwören bei Meinem Namen: Beim Leben Jehovahs, wie sie Mein Volk gelehrt hatten, beim Baal zu schwören, so sollen sie inmitten Meines Volkes aufgebaut werden.
17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Wo aber sie nicht hören, will Ich solche Völkerschaft ausreißen und zerstören, spricht Jehovah.
