Jeremías 12

1 Justo eres Tú, oh Yavé, para que yo contienda contigo. Sin embargo, defenderé mi causa ante Ti: ¿Por qué prospera el camino de los perversos, y los traidores viven en paz?

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

2 Los plantas y echan raíces. Crecen y dan fruto. Cercano estás de sus bocas, pero lejos de su pensamiento.

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

3 Pero Tú, oh Yavé, Tú me conoces. Me miras y pruebas mi corazón, cómo es hacia Ti. Sepáralos como a ovejas para el matadero. Apártalos para el día de la matanza.

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

4 ¿Hasta cuándo lamenta la tierra y se marchita la hierba de todo el campo? Por la perversidad de los que la habitan perecieron los animales y las aves. Porque dicen: Él no verá nuestro último fin.

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

5 [Respuesta de] Yavé: Si te cansaste al correr con la infantería, ¿cómo puedes competir con la caballería? Si caes en una tierra de paz, entonces ¿qué harás en la selva del Jordán?

If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

6 Porque aun tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre te traicionaron. Aun ellos gritan con voz fuerte detrás de ti. No les creas aunque te digan cosas agradables.

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

7 Abandoné mi casa. Desamparé mi heredad. Entregué en manos de mis enemigos lo que mi alma ama.

I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.

8 Porque mi heredad fue para mí como león en la selva. Dio su rugido contra mí. Por tanto la aborrecí.

My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.

9 ¿Mi heredad es para mí como un ave de rapiña de muchos colores? ¿No hay aves de rapiña contra ella y alrededor de ella? Vengan, reúnanse todas las fieras del campo. Vengan a tragarla.

My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

10 Muchos pastores destruyeron mi viña. Pisotearon mi heredad. Convirtieron mi agradable heredad en un desierto desolado.

The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

11 La convirtieron en una desolación, y llora sobre mí desolada. Toda la tierra está desolada porque no reflexiona algún hombre.

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

12 Llegaron los destructores sobre todas las alturas del desierto, porque la espada de Yavé devora, desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro. Para nadie hay paz.

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

13 Sembraron trigo y cosecharon espinas. Tuvieron la posesión, pero nada les aprovechó. Son avergonzados en sus cosechas a causa del ardor de la ira de Yavé.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

14 Con respecto a todos mis perversos vecinos que atacan la heredad con la cual doté a mi pueblo Israel, Yavé dice: Ciertamente los arrancaré de su tierra. Arrancaré a la Casa de Judá de en medio de ellos.

This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.

15 Pero después que los arranque, volveré a tener compasión de ellos. Los devolveré cada uno a su heredad y cada cual a su tierra.

And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.

16 Sucederá que si en verdad quieren aprender los caminos de mi pueblo para invocar mi Nombre y decir: Vive Yavé, así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por baal, ellos serán establecidos en medio de mi pueblo.

And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

17 Pero si no escuchan, arrancaré a esa nación. La sacaré de raíz y la destruiré, dice Yavé.

But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.