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?
Igaz vagy, Örökkévaló, ha pörölnék veled, csakhogy jogosságról beszélek veled: Miért szerencsés a gonoszok útja, miért boldogulnak mind a hűtlenkedők?
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.
Elültetted őket, meg is gyökereztek, haladnak, gyümölcsöt is termettek, közel vagy szájukban, de távol veséiktől.
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!
De te, Örökkévaló, ismersz engem, látsz engem és megvizsgálod szívemet te irántad; szakítsd ki őket, mint a juhokat vágásra, szenteld őket az öldöklés napjára.
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)!”
Meddig gyászoljon az ország és száradjon el az egész mező füve? A bennlakók gonoszsága miatt elfogyott barom és madár, mert azt mondják; nem látja végünket.
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]?
Midőn gyalogosokkal futottál, kifárasztottak téged, hát miképpen versenyeznél lovakkal; béke országában biztos vagy, de miképpen fogsz cselekedni a Jordán büszkeségében?
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!
Mert testvéreid és atyád háza, azok is hűtlenkedtek irántad, azok is kiáltottak utánad tele, torokkal: ne higgy bennük, mikor jót beszélnek hozzád.
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.
Elhagytam házamat, elvetettem birtokomat, odaadtam lelkem kedvességét ellenségeinek kezébe.
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.
Lett nekem birtokom mint oroszlán az erdőben, hangját emelte ellenem, azért meggyűlöltem.
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].
Tarka madár-e nekem az én birtokom, madár gyűl-e ellene köröskörül? Gyertek, gyűjtsétek össze a mező minden vadját, jöjjetek el falni.
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.
Sok pásztor rontotta, el szőlőmet, összetiporták telkemet, tették az én drága telkemet sivatag pusztává.
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.
Tették sivataggá, gyászol előttem elpusztultan; elpusztult az egész ország, mert nincs senki, ki szívére venné.
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.
Mind a hegycsúcsokra a pusztában pusztítók jöttek, mert kardja az Örökkévalónak emészt az ország végétől az ország végéig; nincs béke semmi halandó számára!
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].”
Búzát vetettek és tövist arattak, kínlódtak, de nem volt hasznuk: szégyenkezzetek terméstek miatt az Örökkévaló fellobbant haragjától!
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.
Így szól az Örökkévaló mind a rossz szomszédaim felől, akik hozzányúlnak a birtokhoz, melyet birtokba adtam népemnek, Izraelnek: Íme én kiszakítom őket földjükből és Jehúda házát kiszakítom őközülük.
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.
És lesz, miután kiszakítottam őket, újból irgalmazok nekik; és visszahozom őket, kikit birtokába és kikit országába.
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.
És lesz, ha majd megtanulják népem útjait, hogy nevemre esküsznek: él az Örökkévaló, amint tanították népemet a Báalra esküdni, akkor fel fognak épülni népem közepében.
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.”
De ha nem hallgatnak rá, kiszakítom azt a népet, kiszakítva és elveszítve, úgymond az Örökkévaló.
