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 righteous, Yahweh, whenever I bring disputes to you. I must certainly tell you of my reason to complain: Why do the ways of the wicked succeed? All the faithless people are successful.

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

You planted them and they took root. They continue to produce fruit. You are near to them in their mouths, but far away from their hearts.

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.

Yet you, Yahweh, know me. You see me and you test my heart toward you. Take them away like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter!

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 go on drying up, and the plants in every field wither because of the wickedness of its inhabitants? The animals and the birds have been taken away. Indeed, the people say, “God will not see what happens to us.”

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?

Yahweh said, “Indeed, if you, Jeremiah, have run with foot soldiers and they have tired you out, how can you compete against horses? If you fall down in the safe countryside, how will you do in the thickets along the 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 and your father's family have betrayed you and have loudly denounced you. Do not trust in them, even if they say nice things to you.

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

I have abandoned my house; I have forsaken my inheritance. I have given my beloved into the hands of her enemies.

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

My inheritance has become to me like a lion in a thicket; she sets herself against me with her own voice, so I hate 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.

Has not my prized possession become a speckled bird, that other birds of prey go against her all around? Go and gather all the wild beasts and bring them to devour her.

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

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have stomped all over my portion of land; they turned my delightful portion into a wilderness, a desolation.

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

They have made her a desolation. I mourn for her; she is desolate. All the land has been made desolate, for there is no one who 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.

Destroyers have come against all the bare places in the wilderness, for Yahweh's sword is devouring from one end of the land to the other. There is no safety in the land for any living creature.

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.

They have sown wheat but harvest thornbushes. They are exhausted from work but have gained nothing. So be ashamed of your gain because of Yahweh's anger.”

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.

Yahweh says this against all my neighbors, the wicked ones who strike at the possession that I made my people Israel inherit, “See, I am the one who is about to uproot them from their own ground, and I will pull up the house 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.

Then after I uproot those nations, it will happen that I will have compassion on them and bring them back; I will return them—each man to his inheritance and 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.

It will come about that if those nations carefully learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name 'As Yahweh lives' just as they have taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.

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

But if any do not listen, then I will uproot that nation. It will certainly be uprooted and destroyed—this is Yahweh's declaration.”