Jeremiah 12
1 You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
耶和华啊，我与你争辩的时候， 你显为义； 但有一件，我还要与你理论： 恶人的道路为何亨通呢？ 大行诡诈的为何得安逸呢？
2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
你栽培了他们， 他们也扎了根， 长大，而且结果。 他们的口是与你相近， 心却与你远离。
3 But you, LORD, know me. You see me, and test my heart towards you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
耶和华啊，你晓得我，看见我， 察验我向你是怎样的心。 求你将他们拉出来， 好像将宰的羊， 叫他们等候杀戮的日子。
4 How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
这地悲哀， 通国的青草枯干，要到几时呢？ 因其上居民的恶行， 牲畜和飞鸟都灭绝了。 他们曾说：他看不见我们的结局。
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
耶和华说：你若与步行的人同跑， 尚且觉累， 怎能与马赛跑呢？ 你在平安之地，虽然安稳， 在约旦河边的丛林要怎样行呢？
6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
因为连你弟兄和你父家都用奸诈待你。 他们也在你后边大声喊叫， 虽向你说好话， 你也不要信他们。
7 “I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
我离了我的殿宇， 撇弃我的产业， 将我心里所亲爱的交在她仇敌的手中。
8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.
我的产业向我如林中的狮子， 她发声攻击我， 因此我恨恶她。
9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour.
我的产业向我岂如斑点的鸷鸟呢？ 鸷鸟岂在她四围攻击她呢？ 你们要去聚集田野的百兽， 带来吞吃吧！
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
许多牧人毁坏我的葡萄园， 践踏我的分， 使我美好的分变为荒凉的旷野。
11 They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
他们使地荒凉； 地既荒凉，便向我悲哀。 全地荒凉，因无人介意。
12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
灭命的都来到旷野中一切净光的高处； 耶和华的刀从地这边直到地那边尽行杀灭。 凡有血气的都不得平安。
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the LORD’s fierce anger.”
他们种的是麦子， 收的是荆棘； 劳劳苦苦却毫无益处。 因耶和华的烈怒， 你们必为自己的土产羞愧。
14 The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from amongst them.
耶和华如此说：“一切恶邻，就是占据我使百姓以色列所承受产业的，我要将他们拔出本地，又要将犹大家从他们中间拔出来。
15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
我拔出他们以后，我必转过来怜悯他们，把他们再带回来，各归本业，各归故土。
16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
他们若殷勤学习我百姓的道，指着我的名起誓说：‘我指着永生的耶和华起誓’，正如他们从前教我百姓指着巴力起誓，他们就必建立在我百姓中间。
17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD.
他们若是不听，我必拔出那国，拔出而且毁灭。这是耶和华说的。”
