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?
Herre, om jag än med dig ville till rätta gå, så behåller du dock rätten; likväl måste jag tala med dig om rätten: Hvi går dem ogudaktigom så väl, och de föraktare hafva allahanda nog?
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 planterar dem, att de rota sig, och växa, och bära frukt; du låter dem mycket tala om dig, och du näpser dem intet.
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 mig, Herre, känner du, och ser mig, och pröfvar mitt hjerta för dig; men dem låter du gå fri, likasom får, att de skola slagtade varda; och skonar dem, på det de skola dräpne varda.
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)!”
Huru länge skall dock landet stå så jämmerliga, och gräset på markene allestäds borttorkas för inbyggarenas ondskos skull, att både djur och foglar der intet mer äro? Ty de säga: Ja, han vet mycket huru oss gå skall.
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]?
Om de göra dig plats, som till fot gå, huru vill dig gå, då du med resenärer löpa skall? Och om du söker efter säkerhet uti de lande der frid är, hvad vill då med dig varda vid den högmodiga Jordanen?
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!
Ty dine bröder, och dins faders hus förakta dig ock, och ropa Jadut öfver dig; derföre tro du dem intet, om de än tala vänliga med dig.
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.
Derföre hafver jag måst öfvergifva mitt hus, och fly mitt arf, och gifva mina älskeliga själ uti fiendahand.
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.
Mitt arf är mig vordet såsom ett lejon i skogenom, och ryter emot mig; derföre är jag thy harmse vorden.
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].
Mitt arf är såsom en spräklot fogel, om hvilken foglarna församla sig; upp, och församler eder, all djur på markene; kommer och äter.
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.
Månge herdar hafva förderfvat min vingård, och förtrampat min åker; de hafva gjort min sköna åker till en öken; de hafva gjort honom öde.
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.
Jag ser allaredo, huru jämmerliga han förödd är; ja, hela landet är öde; men ingen vill läggat uppå hjertat.
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.
Ty de förderfvare komma öfver alla högar i öknene, och Herrans frätande svärd ifrå den ena landsens ända intill den andra; och intet kött skall frid hafva.
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].”
De så hvete, men tistel skola de uppskära; de göra sig omak nog, men de skola intet nyttjat; de skola icke glädjas af sinom årsväxt, för Herrans grymma vredes skull.
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.
Detta säger Herren emot alla mina onda grannar, som antasta den arfvedel som jag mino folke Israel utskift hafver; si, jag skall rycka dem utu deras land, och taga Juda hus midt ut ifrå dem.
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.
Och när jag hafver uttagit dem, skall jag åter förbarma mig öfver dem, och skall låta hvar och en komma till sin arfvedel, och till sitt land igen.
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.
Och det skall ske, om de lära af mitt folk, att de svärja vid mitt Namn: Så visst som Herren lefver; lika som de tillförene hafva lärt mitt folk svärja vid Baal, så skola de uppbyggas 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 om de icke höra vilja, så skall jag det folket utrycka, och förgöra det, säger Herren.
