Jeremías 12

1 Tú eres justo, Yahvé, cuando me enfrento a ti; Sin embargo, me gustaría exponer un caso ante usted. ¿Por qué prospera el camino de los malvados? ¿Por qué están tranquilos los que tratan con mucha alevosía?

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 Tú los has plantado. Sí, han echado raíces. Crecen. Sí, producen frutos. Estás cerca de su boca, y lejos de su corazón.

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 Pero tú, Yahvé, me conoces. Me ves, y pruebas mi corazón hacia ti. Sácalos como ovejas para el matadero, y prepararlos para el día de la matanza.

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 Hasta cuándo estará de luto la tierra, ¿y las hierbas de todo el país se marchitan? A causa de la maldad de los que la habitan, los animales y las aves se consumen; porque dijeron, “No verá nuestro último fin”.

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 “Si has corrido con los lacayos, y te han cansado, ¿entonces cómo se puede competir con los caballos? Aunque en una tierra de paz estás seguro, pero, ¿cómo lo harás en el orgullo del Jordán?

[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 Porque incluso tus hermanos, y la casa de tu padre, ¡hasta ellos te han tratado con traición! Incluso ellos han gritado después de ti. No les creas, aunque te digan palabras bonitas.

[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 “He abandonado mi casa. He desechado mi herencia. He entregado a la amada de mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.

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 Mi herencia se ha convertido para mí en un león en el bosque. Ella ha pronunciado su voz contra mí. Por eso la he odiado.

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 ¿Es mi herencia como un ave de rapiña moteada? ¿Están las aves de rapiña contra ella por todas partes? Ve, reúne a todos los animales del campo. Tráelos para devorarlos.

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 Muchos pastores han destruido mi viña. Han pisoteado mi porción. Han convertido mi agradable porción en un desierto desolado.

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 La han convertido en una desolación. Me llora, estando desolado. Toda la tierra queda desolada, porque a nadie le importa.

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 Los destructores han llegado a todas las alturas desnudas del desierto; porque la espada de Yahvé devora desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro. Ninguna carne tiene paz.

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 Han sembrado trigo, y han cosechado espinas. Se han agotado, y no se aprovecha nada. Se avergonzarán de sus frutos, a causa de la feroz ira de Yahvé”.

[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 Dice el Señor: “Con respecto a todos mis malos vecinos, que tocan la herencia que he hecho heredar a mi pueblo Israel: He aquí que yo los arrancaré de su tierra, y arrancaré de entre ellos a la casa de Judá.

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 Sucederá que después de haberlos arrancado, volveré y me compadeceré de ellos. Los haré volver, cada uno a su heredad, y cada uno a su tierra.

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 Sucederá que si aprenden con diligencia los caminos de mi pueblo, para jurar por mi nombre, ‘Vive Yahvé’; así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, entonces serán edificados en medio de mi pueblo.

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 Pero si no escuchan, entonces arrancaré a esa nación, arrancándola y destruyéndola”, dice Yahvé.

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.”