Jeremías 12

1 Estás en lo correcto, oh Señor, cuando expongo mi causa; aún así permíteme hacerte una pregunta: ¿por qué le va bien al malvado? ¿Por qué los que hacen el engaño viven cómodamente?

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 Han sido plantados por ti, han echado raíces; siguen y dan fruto; estás cerca de sus labios, pero en su interior lejos de ti.

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 Mas tú, oh Señor, tú me conoces; Me ves, has visto y probando cómo está mi corazón para contigo; que sean sacados como ovejas, para que sean sacrificados, que estén listos para el día de la muerte.

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 ¿Por cuánto tiempo la tierra tendrá pena, y las plantas de toda la tierra estarán secas? debido a los pecados de las personas que viven en ella, la destrucción ha sobrepasado a las bestias y las aves; porque decían, Dios no ve nuestros caminos.

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 correr con los hombres de combate te ha cansado, ¿cómo vas a poder seguir el ritmo de los caballos? y si en una tierra de paz te cansaron, ¿qué será de ti en el espeso crecimiento 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 Incluso por tus hermanos, la familia de tu padre, incluso ellos te han traicionado, gritando ruidosamente en pos de ti; no creas en ellos, aunque te digan palabras agradables.

[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 dejado ir mi herencia; He entregado 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 como un león en el bosque; su voz ha sido fuerte contra mí; así que tengo odio por ella.

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 Mi herencia es como un pájaro de colores brillantes para mí; las crueles aves la están atacando por todos lados; ve, reúne a todas las bestias del campo, haz que vengan a devorarla.

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 Los guardianes de las ovejas han sido la destrucción de mi jardín de viñas, aplastando mi herencia bajo sus pies; han hecho de mi preciosa heredad 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 Lo han hecho desolado; Me está llorando, desolado; Toda la tierra ha sido desolada, no hubo ningún hombre la tomara en serio.

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 que causan la desolación han venido a todas las colinas del desierto; porque la espada del Señor envía destrucción de un extremo de la tierra al otro extremo de la tierra; ningún ser humano 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 A pesar de que se sembró buen grano, cosecharon espinas; han trabajado en vano. Serán avergonzados por su producto, debido a la ira ardiente del Señor.

[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 Esto es lo que el Señor ha dicho contra todos malvados vecinos, quienes pusieron sus manos sobre la herencia que le di a mi pueblo Israel: Mira, los sacaré de sus tierras, desarraigando al pueblo de Judá de entre ellos.

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 Y sucederá que, después de que hayan sido desarraigados, volveré a tener piedad de ellos; y los devolveré, cada uno a su herencia 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 Y será que, si se dedican a aprender los caminos de mi pueblo, usando mi nombre en sus juramentos: vive él Señor; como han estado enseñando a mi pueblo a hacer juramentos por el Baal; entonces su lugar será asegurado entre 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 ellos no escuchan, entonces arrancaré de la raíz esa nación y la destruiré, dice el Señor.

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.”