< 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?
Rettferdig er du, Herre, når eg andordast med deg, endå lyt eg tala med deg um retten. Kvi gjeng det dei ugudlege vel? Kvi er dei sutlause alle dei sviksame?
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 hev planta deim, dei hev røtt seg og; dei veks, dei ber frukt og; nær er du i deira munn, men langt burte frå deira nyro.
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!
Men du, Herre, kjenner meg, du ser meg og røyner mitt hjartelag mot deg; skil deim frå likeins som sauer til slagting, og vigsla deim til ein dråpsdag!
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)!”
Kor lenge skal landet syrgja og grøda på jordi alle stader torna burt? For deira vondskap skuld som der bur, er dyr og fuglar burtrivne; for dei segjer: «Han ser ikkje endelykti vår.»
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]?
Um du vert utmødd når du løyp med gangande mann, korleis kann du då kapprenna med hestar? I eit fredt land er du trygg, men kva vil du gjera i tjukkskogen burtmed Jordan?
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!
For jamvel brørne dine og farshuset ditt, jamvel dei er utrue mot deg, jamvel dei set i illskrik attum din rygg. Tru deim ikkje, endå dei talar vænt til deg!
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.
Eg hev gjenge frå huset mitt, eg hev vanda odelen min, eg hev gjeve den som mi sjæl elska i henderne på hennar fiendar.
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.
Odelen min er vorten for meg som løva i skog: han hev sett i eit læte imot meg; difor hatar eg honom.
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].
Er odelen min som ein spreklut rovfugl? Rovfugl er det då rundt ikring honom. Gakk av stad, samla alle dyr i skogen, lat deim koma hit og eta!
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.
Hyrdingar i mengd øydelegg vinhagen min, trakkar ned odelsjordi mi; dei gjer den hugnadlege odelsjordi mi til ei øgjeleg audn.
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.
Til ei øydemark gjer dei henne; syrgjande og audsleg ligg ho framfyre meg. Alt landet er i øyde lagt, for ingen legg det på hjarta.
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.
Yver alle snaud-heidar i øydemarki kjem herjande hopar; for Herren hev eit sverd som øyder frå eine enden av landet til hin; alt kjøt er fredlaust.
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].”
Dei sår kveite og haustar inn klunger; dei møder seg ut, men reint til fånyttes. So vert då til skammar med grøda dykkar for Herrens brennande vreide!
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 segjer Herren um alle dei vonde grannarne, som rører den odelseiga som eg hev gjeve mitt folk Israel: Sjå, eg rykkjer deim upp or landet deira, og Judas hus vil eg rykkja upp undan deim.
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.
Men etter eg hev rykt deim upp, vil eg atter miskunna deim og lata dei koma tilbake til kvar sin odel og kvar til kvar sitt 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.
Um dei då lærer seg mitt folks vegar, so dei sver ved mitt namn: «So sant som Herren liver» - liksom dei lærde mitt folk å sverja ved Ba’al, då skal dei verta uppatt-bygde midt ibland mitt folk.
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.”
Men um dei ikkje lyder, då vil eg rykkja upp det folket, rykkja det upp og tyna det, segjer Herren.