Yeremia 12

1 "Jika aku mengajukan perkaraku di hadapan-Mu, ya TUHAN, tentulah akan terbukti bahwa Engkaulah yang benar. Tapi aku ingin juga menanyakan kepada-Mu soal keadilan: Mengapa orang jahat makmur? Mengapa justru orang tak jujur yang berhasil?

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?

2 Kautanam mereka seperti tumbuh-tumbuhan, lalu mereka berakar, bertumbuh, dan berbuah. Mereka selalu berbicara yang baik-baik tentang diri-Mu, tetapi dalam hati, mereka sebenarnya tidak peduli kepada-Mu.

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.

3 Tetapi Engkau, ya TUHAN, mengenal aku. Engkau melihat apa yang kulakukan, dan Engkau mengetahui bagaimana perasaan hatiku terhadap-Mu. Giringlah orang-orang jahat itu keluar, bawalah mereka seperti domba ke pembantaian. Jagalah mereka sampai tiba waktunya mereka disembelih.

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.

4 Sampai berapa lama lagi negeri ini kering, dan rumputnya layu di setiap ladang? Burung dan binatang lainnya mati karena kejahatan bangsa kami. Mereka berkata, bahwa aku tidak akan melihat nasib mereka."

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.”

5 TUHAN berkata, "Yeremia, jika engkau menjadi lelah berlomba dengan manusia, mana mungkin engkau berlomba dengan kuda? Jika di tanah yang aman engkau ketakutan, apakah yang akan kaulakukan apabila kau berada di hutan belukar di tepi Yordan?

“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?

6 Engkau sudah dikhianati bahkan oleh sanak saudaramu sendiri; mereka ikut menyerang engkau. Janganlah percaya kepada mereka, meskipun kata-kata mereka manis."

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.

7 TUHAN berkata, "Tempat tinggal-Ku tidak lagi Kupedulikan, negeri yang menjadi milik-Ku telah Kutinggalkan, dan umat-Ku yang Kukasihi telah Kuserahkan ke tangan musuh-musuhnya.

“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.

8 Umat pilihan-Ku melawan Aku; seperti singa di rimba demikianlah mereka mengaum terhadap-Ku. Itulah sebabnya Aku membenci mereka.

My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.

9 Mereka seperti burung yang diserang oleh elang dari segala pihak. Panggillah segala binatang hutan untuk turut menghabiskan mereka.

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.

10 Banyak penguasa asing telah merusak kebun anggur-Ku dan menginjak-injak ladang-ladang-Ku. Negeri-Ku yang indah mereka ubah menjadi padang gurun yang sepi.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

11 Ya, Aku melihat mereka menjadikan negeri-Ku tempat sepi yang menyedihkan. Seluruhnya terlantar, tak ada yang memperhatikan.

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

12 Dari seberang padang gurun di pegunungan, orang-orang datang untuk merampok. Aku mendatangkan peperangan untuk merusak seluruh negeri sehingga tak seorang pun dapat hidup damai.

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.

13 Umat-Ku menabur gandum, tapi durilah yang dituai. Mereka bersusah payah tapi usahanya tidak berhasil. Aku sangat murka sehingga panenan mereka gagal."

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.”

14 TUHAN berkata, "Inilah pesan-Ku tentang negara-negara tetangga Israel yang telah merusak negeri yang Kuberikan kepada umat-Ku Israel. Seperti tanaman yang dicabut dari tanah, demikianlah orang-orang jahat itu akan Kukeluarkan dari negeri-negeri mereka, dan Yehuda akan Kulepaskan dari genggaman mereka.

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.

15 Tetapi setelah mengeluarkan mereka, Aku akan mengasihani mereka lagi; setiap bangsa akan Kubawa kembali ke negerinya sendiri.

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.

16 Jika mereka dengan sepenuh hati mau menerima agama umat-Ku dan mau bersumpah dengan berkata, 'Demi TUHAN yang hidup,' --seperti dahulu mereka mengajar umat-Ku bersumpah demi Baal--maka mereka pun akan tergolong umat-Ku dan menjadi makmur.

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.

17 Tetapi bangsa yang tidak mau menuruti Aku, akan Kucabut seperti tanaman dan Kupunahkan. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."

But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD.