Jeremiás 12
1 Igaz vagy, Örökkévaló, ha pörölnék veled, csakhogy jogosságról beszélek veled: Miért szerencsés a gonoszok útja, miért boldogulnak mind a hűtlenkedők?
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?
2 Elültetted őket, meg is gyökereztek, haladnak, gyümölcsöt is termettek, közel vagy szájukban, de távol veséiktől.
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.
3 De te, Örökkévaló, ismersz engem, látsz engem és megvizsgálod szívemet te irántad; szakítsd ki őket, mint a juhokat vágásra, szenteld őket az öldöklés napjára.
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!
4 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.
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)!”
5 Midőn gyalogosokkal futottál, kifárasztottak téged, hát miképpen versenyeznél lovakkal; béke országában biztos vagy, de miképpen fogsz cselekedni a Jordán büszkeségében?
[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]?
6 Mert testvéreid és atyád háza, azok is hűtlenkedtek irántad, azok is kiáltottak utánad tele, torokkal: ne higgy bennük, mikor jót beszélnek hozzád.
[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!
7 Elhagytam házamat, elvetettem birtokomat, odaadtam lelkem kedvességét ellenségeinek kezébe.
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.
8 Lett nekem birtokom mint oroszlán az erdőben, hangját emelte ellenem, azért meggyűlöltem.
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.
9 Tarka madár-e nekem az én birtokom, madár gyűl-e ellene köröskörül? Gyertek, gyűjtsétek össze a mező minden vadját, jöjjetek el falni.
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].
10 Sok pásztor rontotta, el szőlőmet, összetiporták telkemet, tették az én drága telkemet sivatag pusztává.
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.
11 Tették sivataggá, gyászol előttem elpusztultan; elpusztult az egész ország, mert nincs senki, ki szívére venné.
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.
12 Mind a hegycsúcsokra a pusztában pusztítók jöttek, mert kardja az Örökkévalónak emészt az ország végétől az ország végéig; nincs béke semmi halandó számára!
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.
13 Búzát vetettek és tövist arattak, kínlódtak, de nem volt hasznuk: szégyenkezzetek terméstek miatt az Örökkévaló fellobbant haragjától!
[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].”
14 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.
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.
15 És lesz, miután kiszakítottam őket, újból irgalmazok nekik; és visszahozom őket, kikit birtokába és kikit országába.
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.
16 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.
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.
17 De ha nem hallgatnak rá, kiszakítom azt a népet, kiszakítva és elveszítve, úgymond az Örökkévaló.
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.”
